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I’ve been a huge fan of Claude Code since it launched.

I previously wrote about using Claude Code from my phone.

Quoting David Kenji Chang on AI assistance: We need to use these tools as tools of leverage, not tools of reliance

I gave a talk at Tokyo AI #10 exploring how you can make Claude Code and other AI tools into coworkers.

I feel really seen by this.

I just published a post with gifs and videos and was pretty happy with how it was looking.

This is a list of the various things I’ve done to my claude code setup.

Claude Code is my weird-intern-in-a-terminal1 and it’s surprisingly useful for all kinds of things beyond writing code.

Claude Code amazed me at launch.

I’ve been been using Claude Code a lot the past 2 weeks, enough that I hit the Max plan rate limits 3-4x daily.

There’s no widely agreed-upon definition of AGI, and everything with LLMs is vibes dominated anyway, so the best we have is “I’ll know when I see it”.

Quoting tautologer: the optimal user interface is that you simply say this sentence aloud and then the list appears on your screen all the going to websites and clicking and filtering and so on is fundamentally cruft the purpose of software should be to m…

Quoting Neal Stephenson: ##How humans can coexist with other intelligences Maybe a useful way to think about what it would be like to coexist in a world that includes intelligences that aren’t human is to consider the fact that we’ve been doing exactly th…

Quoting Steve Yegge: First, you can’t tell interviewers what’s important.

Quoting Chamath Palihapitiya: Replacing determinism or humans with probabilistic code is fraught with edge cases and require new ways of software development and process engineering that aren’t well solved yet.

Quoting Utsav Mamoria: Epistemic Anxiety is the feeling of uneasiness, tension, and concern when you want to know the truth.

###Story Yesterday I fired off a quick loop to pull down some files from a server: for f in $(cat file-list.txt); do scp user@hostname:path/to/data/$(basename $f) local_dir/ done I just needed a couple of examples1 so I decided to kill the command when I

Quoting Lightcone Podcast: Choose Exciting Pivots Pick a pivot that excites everyone on your team to ensure commitment.

Quoting The Vergecast: Garbage Truck David Pierce shares that the best AI experience he had was with an app that records his son yelling "garbage truck".

Quoting Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI is helpful despite being error-prone if it is faster to verify the output than it is to do the work yourself.

Quoting Linda Caroll: “Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory.

Quoting Adam Mastroianni: we only know about several early Christian heresies because we have records of people complaining about them. [1] The original heretics’ writings, if they ever existed, have been lost. we all liked his first book very much and he…

Quoting bramjetten.dev: Technical debt isn’t always bad Sometimes the pragmatic solution that gets you to market faster is the right one, even if it’s not technically perfect.

Quoting Alex Heath: I think memory will be won by the company that has the most context.

Quoting Joanna Stern: Yet the most unsettling part was realizing the soundtrack of my life was stored on some companies’ servers.

Quoting benkuhn.net: A lot of the things people ask for advice on fall into this category.

Quoting storage.googleapis.com: any static procedure for synthetically generating data will quickly become outstripped.

Quoting seangoedecke.com: Here’s an unreasonably effective trick for working with AIs: always pretend that your work was produced by someone else.

Quoting Blogger: Being supported by AI tools is not a substitute for mastery.

Quoting Paul Graham: What would someone who was the opposite of hapless be like?

Quoting wikipedia.org: the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, the longer its remaining life expectancy.

Quoting benkuhn.net: people’s biggest bottleneck eventually becomes their ability to get leverage—i.e., to find and execute work that has a big impact-per-hour multiplier.

Quoting Scott Alexander: A “concept handle” is a memorable noun phrase representing a complex, often abstract topic.

Quoting Simon Willison’s Weblog: My gold standard for LLM usage remains this: would I be proud to stake my own credibility on the quality of the end result?

Quoting Ben Thompson: The new bridge is a user interface that gives you exactly what you need when you need it, and disappears otherwise; it is based on AI, not apps.

Quoting Scott Alexander: Imagine you are in the driver’s seat of a car.

Quoting Geoffrey Huntley: — description: Cursor Rules Location globs: .mdc — # Cursor Rules Location Rules for placing and organizing Cursor rule files in the repository. name: cursor_rules_location description: Standards for placing Cursor rule files in…

Quoting BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley: Florida’s Comeback Win Bill Gurley attended the NCAA March Madness tournament in San Francisco.

Quoting Byrne Hobart: the heart of a grift is that you get something that, in a technical sense, is what you paid for, but that is also not worth what you paid for it. the broad categories of finance grift are: A fancy-sounding high-fee wrapper on somethi…

Quoting Francesco Farina: The firehose of high-dimensional, real-time sensor data (vision, lidar, tactile, auditory, proprioceptive) from a world populated by embodied agents will dwarf the entire current internet dataset.

Quoting Jan: That’s what I don’t get about the folks out west - if you blast someone from a storm cloud for being human on a particularly stupid day, how the heck are they supposed to learn?

Quoting Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm -m gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25 \ ’transcribe, first speaker is Christopher, second is Simon’ \ -a ten-minutes-of-podcast.mp3 \ –schema-multi ’timestamp str: mm:ss, text, speaker_name'

Quoting The Tim Ferriss Show: Questions vs.

Quoting BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley: Market Uncertainty and Impact The market’s uncertainty, economic and technological, drives up discount rates and risk premiums.

Quoting Wendover Productions: what makes Japanese railways great goes far beyond their corporate structure.

Quoting Julian Bradshaw: The funny thing is that pokemon is a simple, railroady enough game that RNG can beat the game given enough time (and this has been done)[6], but it turns out to take a surprising amount of cognitive architecture to play the game in

Quoting near: Put an unreasonable amount of effort into your content.

Quoting TRASHFUTURE: Klarna’s AI Epiphany Klarna, a fintech company, laid off its customer service department, betting on AI.

Quoting nickcraux.com: • I like Composer (now called Agent) for simple, low impact changes.

Quoting Benn Jordan: The point of all this maneuvering is decreasingly about turning a profit and increasingly about transitioning to a rent-based economy that hedges inflation profit and even money itself are only really valuable when they buy power.