Andy Peacock

Currently using claude to help flesh out a PRD.

"Here's a high level scope, ask me questions one at a time until you don't have any more".

Currently on #129

This is going to be fun.

1986: I started in engineering. Worked on these bad boys.

1996?: One of the seniors drove round the country recording people saying "Phone home", "Phone the office" *in regional accents* as voice recognition started to appear.

Today: I had a real-time conversation with Vapi.ai

Holy moly.

Some great advice here blog.fsck.com/2025/10/05/....

Particularly this bit

For those of you with a very customised Claude Code set up - skills, agents, commands etc:

it's very similar. The only thing I found was that bizarrely I had problems with /code. Can't remember what the problem was though :-)

I've tried happy as well, but my laptop isn't always on, and using a dedicated vps for when I we mobile, and laptop at the desk, was getting confusing.

LLMs are tremendously seductive, particularly with Anthropic bringing out skills, plugins, etc.

But sometimes, you just need a simple automation script. Absolutely use the LLM to write it, but it's *SO* much faster to run a script than to tell the LLM to do something that could be automated.

If you're using claude code, and want to be able to do stuff from mobile, take a look at @terragonlabs

Knocked up a quick tool with Claude Code the other day.

My prompt was: "See this screenshot of a site, replicate it, but the search function should be to the API defined at https://...."

That was it, and it worked with 1 minor tweak.

Seriously impressive.

NEOCITIES LOOKS AWESOME!

Just like the old days.

"A Short History of Nearly Everything", by Bill Bryson.

Recently, I've been letting Claude Code run loose while I play Cyberpunk 2077.

I'm now scared for our future.

a man dressed as a devil with horns is praying with his hands folded . ALT: a man dressed as a devil with horns is praying with his hands folded .

No Luca. Just no.

Flip-flops were invented by this guy.

I can almost here the hum and smell the ozone as you turn it all on.

Mainly me, going round and round in circles, not knowing what to work on because Claude Code makes it so easy to switch to other projects.

Just been going round the houses a bit trying to resolve a 401 Unauthorised error with Claude Code.

Took a while, but now the 401 has gone.

I get a 404 instead.

Looking forward to reading more, Carl!

Ironic.

I think "Ted" needs to refine his youtube AI commenting bot:

I think a special place in hell should be reserved for the person who thought that making devs type "~/.bashrc" was a good idea.

I'm 55 years old, been using bash on and off for at least 15 years, and it still pains me to have to type it.

Wait a minute. I thought all this "MCP" stuff sounded familiar.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

(One for us old folks, but timely given Tron Ares imminent release).

Every MCP you are using in Claude Code adds to the tokens you send on send on every request.

Every method the MCP has, that you're not using, is a massive waste of your allocation.

If you're only using a few MCP functions, get CC to create a CLI tool that does the same thing

Me: Ok, loop through the entries and give me a 1 sentence summary.
Claude Code: Creates a python script to extract the 1st sentence from each item.
Me: No, I want an AI summary
CC: Creates a python script to call OpenAI or Claude API.
Me: ...
CC: Oh wait, I've just realised something:

I used Claude Desktop to investigate some app options, and it ended up writing a little bash script for me.

Claude Code spotted an issue with the script.

We're down the rabbit hole, folks.

That's what I normally use. I must have used work instead by accident. Probably just obeying my AI overlord.

Useful tip if you are about to do some major layout changes to your UI when a lot of the functionality is working and you're using an AI coding tool:

Get it to create ASCII art, and give it ASCII art for any changes you want to make.

Then get it to code against that.

I don't use slack.
I don't have a microsoft account.
I only have a private gmail account.

So I guess I won't be using your product then.

Today so far, from my own notes:

Woah there horsey! We've not tested the end-to-end process, so there's no way we're ready to scale!

And today marks the 1,001th time I've wondered why something ISN'T BLOODY WORKING! still, only to realise I forgot to restart the laravel queue and it was running old code.

I asked Claude Code what I could add to my "Do this task" prompt to keep Claude Code implementing simple solution. It came up with this. Let's see how it goes.