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I just came back from New York, where I've visited one of MarsBased's biggest clients.

I've been playing with Instinct lately, an AI agent that can actually operate websites and do things for you, running on whatsapp and I've had a couple of "holy shit" moments already.

Having spent the last month reading twitter, hacker news and other sites while being on holidays has left me raising eyebrows more often than not.

This is the last thing you'll hear from me until September.

The old adage says that developers don't build the same app twice.

I've started doing some quality of life tweaks to Claude Code that help me visually to keep things tidy across projects and tasks.

I don't know if you also have experienced this: my eyes and brain are immediately detecting AI slop and rejecting it altogether.

I've spent the last couple of years integrating AI into how I work at MarsBased, and even though things change rapidly, I feel like my AI stack is pretty consolidated... for now.

First off, apologies for not sending the issue last week.

A few weeks ago I sat down with Alberto Betella, the owner of RSS.com for the MarsBased podcast.

I've been using Claude since January, and I've got acquainted with it to a level that's clearly past most regular users.

There is a check I wrote in 2015 that I still think about: One thousand euros, my entire liquid savings at the time.

I have been building a tonne of things since Claude Code entered my life this past January.

... or the trade-off every founder gets wrong.

I'm not gonna lie: I don't enjoy chats nor texting and whatsapp is making my life significantly worse.

I've been thinking about a concept I want to call "fuck you code" because right now, more or less everyone is familiarised with the term "fuck you money" and because why not.

We're doing more and more every day.