Why I built it

I recently finished The Complete Claude Code & Claude Cowork Masterclass. A course shows you what Claude and Claude Code can do. It doesn't show you what it's like to lean on that tool for a real project, with real bugs and real releases. I wanted to find out.

I had a real problem to use. When I moved my laptop from Windows to Linux, the thing I missed most was WinSCP: my files on the left, the server's on the right, drag a file across, done. There are good file-transfer tools on Linux, but none felt like that to me.

So that became the project. The result is ShuttleSCP , a free, open-source SFTP, SCP and FTP/FTPS client for Linux, macOS and Windows, written in Rust with GTK 4. It's a public beta at version 0.13.0 . This is what I learned getting it there.

How we split the work

The short version: I decided and checked, Claude wrote the code.

My background is databases and IT infrastructure, not Rust. So I worked the way I would with a capable contractor.…