Let Her Cook: A Context Engineering Workshop
Learn practical context engineering with Darlyze Calixte and use LLMs more effectively in any role—from PM to design to founding. Your LLM is not a search engine; in this hands-on CreateHER Fest session, you’ll learn how to treat Claude like a teammate by giving it the right context instead of just shouting prompts at it. We’ll co-create a simple but real product together—“Let Her Cook,” a food blog concept—and use Claude to help define what it is, who it’s for, and how it should work before we ever touch a line of code.
What we’ll do together (in 90 minutes)
Design the product with Claude as a teammate (no code required).
Clarify the “Let Her Cook” concept: audience, goals, and core features.
Draft a lightweight brand guide (voice, visual vibes, content pillars) and content structure (sections, post types, tags) with Claude, using context engineering patterns instead of one-off prompts.
Turn that into reusable context and workflows.
Capture requirements, examples, and constraints as Claude Project context so you’re not re-explaining yourself every time you open a new chat.
Design a few concrete templates—like a recipe post layout, a story post, or a newsletter blurb—and the prompts/workflows that go with them.
See a simple build demo driven by that context.
Watch a guided, minimalist “build-out” of a basic web presence or mock UI for Let Her Cook (e.g., a simple static page or low-/no-code setup), where Claude generates pieces based on the context you just designed
Dev‑inclined folks can follow along with copy‑paste snippets; non‑devs focus on how good context makes the build easier and more consistent, even if they never ship code themselves.
Why this is important (for you)
Most people waste time, tokens, and energy asking LLMs to “build X” or “write Y” with almost no context, then fighting through inconsistent results and endless retries. By investing a little time upfront in context—clear roles, instructions, examples, and structure—you get more reliable outputs, fewer do‑overs, and less money and time spent on unnecessary tokens. You’ll learn to start from “What am I building? For whom? With what constraints?” and encode that into Claude, so you can get to useful results faster, whether you’re shipping a site, drafting content, or planning a project.
Who this is for
Product managers, founders, and team leads who want Claude to help them think and plan, not just spit out random ideas.
Designers, engineers, data folks, and marketers who use LLMs today but feel stuck in prompt‑and‑pray mode.
Anyone Claude‑curious who doesn’t write code (or writes a little) and wants a concrete, product‑minded way to go from idea → context → working artifacts they can actually use.
You’ll leave with:
A reusable context “blueprint” for the Let Her Cook concept—requirements, brand guide, content structure, and Claude-ready templates.
A clear mental model of context engineering and how it makes LLM work more efficient and consistent, so you waste fewer tokens and argue with Claude a lot less.
A pattern you can apply to your own projects—portfolios, landing pages, internal tools, or content workflows—whether or not you ever choose to build a full web app yourself.
About the facilitator
Darlyze Calixte is a software developer and co-founder of CreateHER Fest, focused on data-driven and systems-oriented solutions that make emerging tech more accessible to underrepresented communities. They’ve led technical infrastructure and community growth efforts for organizations serving thousands of women of color in tech, including building workshops, buildathons, and apprenticeship-style learning experiences around AI, web, and product workflows. As a Perplexity AI Business Fellow and long-time community organizer, Darlyze brings a product-minded, real-world lens to AI—showing beginners and intermediates how to turn “vibes” into workflows, and workflows into tangible projects they can actually ship.