Agents over apps - a trivial example
I find myself using less and less apps while using more and more ‘agents’. What I mean by agents is simply folders within claude code where I create a structure to cooperate with claude code on a given project or activity. Let me give you a trivial example: I have been rock climbing for 25 years. I still try to get better (which in my age is a bit of a crazy premise, but that’s the essence of any sport, and improvement can mean a lot;)). I tried multiple apps and systems for training but for last couple of weeks I am running Claude Code as my personal climbing trainer. Here’s the process:
- I first fed him with 2-3 programs that I bought/found very useful.
- Then fed him all my climbing history (exported from 8a.nu+own narration), injuries data
- Also added my facilities, equipment, time limitations etc.
- Next created goals - 1,2 and 10 year time-frame.
- Then asked him to create a structure for this were we work weekly -I simply feed him short voice or written notes from my training sessions and he logs everything in structure, gives me advice and updates my weekly plans. How’s it going? Few weeks is a short timespan but I already feel like its way easier and seamless to talk to an agent instead of putting all data in apps or spreadsheets - I always punted that after some time as it became too much of a nuisance and I did not have this dynamic feedback from data, that I get with an agent. Here’s how it looks:

I have baseline tests, exercise sets etc. I keep it open in my onedrive/gdrive to view during training but never write directly I just put freetext into chat with Claude Code.
This way an AI is my logger, trainer, coach, and accountability partner. Much more then a single app could do.