I used to teach people English.

12 June 2026

Today I taught Claude Code how to create and update triggers in Workato recipes via API.

My student was eager — often too eager — jumping two lessons ahead and making wrong assumptions. But with patience and determination, we got there in the end.

Here's the process:

I tell it exactly what to do, and it's always a super granular action, like "change the trigger event from 'update' to 'created'", then to stand by and await further instructions.
It does the deed.
It takes detailed notes about what worked and what did not.
Quite often, I have to interject with bits of personal philosophy, like "use a specific app connector trigger if it exists, only use the generic webhook connector when a specific event isn't available".
When it makes a mistake — and that happens roughly every third action — I course-correct it immediately.

It was a weirdly familiar experience. And although my student doesn't know it yet, there will be a test on Monday.