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I always have them submit code reviews, which helps some, because I read everything in a separate context, but knowing they don’t read whole files means I occasionally just scroll through whole files and do special full codebase sweeps with a second LLM as a sanity check.

Outlast the Lunatic was my favorite game show back in the 2010s.

Was it “get it printed on a t-shirt and wear it for a year straight and see if you still want to wear it after a year?”

Dammit, you mention the wrinkle literally two minutes after I sent this. I thought I waited long enough.

How to Save Future Times I deal a lot with time and time zones in the software I develop, and thankfully most frameworks make it pretty easy to manage. The rule t...

@ianlandsman.com I'm turning into reply guy, but there is an additional wrinkle to future times:

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But for most things probably only worth it the eighth time someone opens a support ticket complaining.

CDD - Complaint-Driven Development.

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I see the slash commands as the hold it by the back of the neck with a stern "no really, do this", so I'm not really sure how significant the CLAUDE file is.

I have two slash commands I iterate on over and over... 400x in the last month with dropsafe.app. Works great.

Yeah, what I was saying was Claude has more context about itself than o3, so it can write instructions for itself better. “Claude, you keep forgetting I want short commit messages, why?” … “Claude.md says x, but /squash says y…, so I do neither.”

Have you tried having Claude code write custom commands for Claude code? I ask him to write them in a way that is most efficient for him and to make sure there are no contradictions between the slash commands and clause.md

Ex github.com/r38y/dot-cla...

I added these copy writing rules to my Claude Code rules and then asked Claude Code to rewrite the copy in my app.

It's been my favorite thing so far.

Lesson learned: don't let ANY AI slop code through, even if you think "oh, you're right, that's a good idea, I'll leave that and finish it at some point in the future". Claude will keep trying to make that slop happen and you'll waste hours until you delete it and start over.

Wishlist: existing private repos, postres so migrations are portable to production, queue up messages to be processed “oh, make that button sentence case” right away instead of waiting, display the messages I send with newlines.

It kind of seems like there are going to be a lot more one off apps. You no longer have to shop around todo apps because everyone is missing one critical feature. Just make exactly what you need, it’s fast and cheap.

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Uhhh… just tried Phoenix.new and built this from scratch in two hours and $40. And the interaction wasn’t nerdy at all like it is with Claude Code (love CC btw).

How can I invest in Flyio and Chris McCord? 😂😅

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Haha, yeah, I think one of the reasons I like Claude is… they have three models. And it’s easy to tell the difference. When I run out of Opus credits it turns into someone I have to keep telling “stop guessing and read the page I gave you” over and over.

Yeah, Claude 4 is the first one I’ve really dug into, and really like it. I had a blog post draft a few weeks ago about how I feel like the way I develop software is like whittling. It feels even more so now, so I have to update it 😂

Or maybe generate a raw 1.7 app with some scaffolding, ask it to upgrade Tailwind, then ask it what instructions I should give it in the future to do it again. Same with upgrading Phoenix?

I got close with Tailwind, it couldn’t figure out how to import a css file from a hex package, and neither could I at 2AM.

For Phoenix, I wonder if feeding it a raw 1.8 app with auth generated would help show it the right direction 🤔

Started using Claude Code and it’s been pretty amazing so far. Top of list to get working: 1) upgrade a phoenix app from tailwind 3 to 4. 2) upgrade a phoenix app from 1.7.x to 1.8.x including latest conventions.

@solnic.dev I see you talk a lot about AI dev, any recs?

#NerdSnipe

TF?

Yeah, what I fear will happen is juniors will use it to get through school and their first year or two of work, but never understand the fundamentals or big picture enough to fix things that break. Or keep them from breaking

@marcoarment.bsky.social I’ve been creating two index cards every morning for years and have them in front of me all day long. I call them my Daily Jars. New ones every day makes me reprioritize every day.

I’ll have to try remarkable though.

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I have the same exact two, but mine are a little more aggressive. And they’re different on work computer vs personal.

You can't trust a nice guy - Aaron Francis They're always up to no good!

Wrote up some of my thoughts on what it means to be nice versus what it means to be kind.

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I recently found some schwag from a company I started in 2009 😲😂✨

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Screen emails like you screen calls You screen your calls, so why can’t you screen your emails? With HEY, you can. HEY puts you in complete control of who’s allowed to email you. The first time someone emails you, you get to decide if y...

Switching to hey.com really helped because you explicitly screen things IN. Random people can’t steal your attention at random times.

www.hey.com/features/the...

Most human thing you’ll ever see a cat do

Ideas are a dime a dozen, it’s the implementation that makes all the difference.

(Love this idea BTW, I thought of it too back in college but it never went anywhere)