> What am I doing wrong?

My coding ranges from "exotic" to "boiler plate" on any given day.

> Create a boilerplate Zephyr project skeleton, for Pi Pico

Yea... Asking Claude to help you with a low documentation build root system is going to go about the same way, I know first hand about how this works.

> I asked it to create 7x10 monochromatic pixelmaps

Wrong tool for the job here. I dont think IDE and Pixelmaps have as large of an intersection as you think they do. Claude thinks in tokens not pixels.

Pick a common language (js, python, rust, golang) pick something easy (web page, command line script, data ingestion) and start there. See what it can do and does well, then start pushing into harder things.