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A guide on getting productive with Claude Code, Anthropic’s agentic coding tool.

By chance I read two articles at a similar time that join up nicely.

On Tuesday I did a talk to our internal AI group, along with talks by excellent colleagues, on Context Engineering.

On Friday Simon Willison published a look at Jesse Vincent’s1 Superpowers plugin for Claude You can read Simon’s and Jesse’s posts to see what this super cool plugin does, but I wanted to understand how to create a plugin and this is quick summary of my n…

Trying out a new format this week.

The Anthropic Cookbook is an excellent resource for learning how to write LLM code and it’s continually being updated, most recently with example code for agents.

This week we have drones in Ukraine and SpaceX’s totally-not-a-cock rocket.

HEPI, a UK higher ed thinktank, released the results from their 2025 survey of AI use by students.

Piotr Mazurek and Felix Gabriel have an amazing post up on LLM Inference Economics from First Principles, which I found on Bluesky.

Note: This post has been replaced by Claude Code - The Missing Manual, which includes updated patterns around plugins, issue tracking, and skills.

We have some actual numbers on tokens!

A very late set of weekly links!

As Andy Massick explains well, if you are making a few requests per day to a simple non-reasoning text based AI model the carbon impact is, to use a technical term, bugger all 1.

Finally a week with more than two links!

Some AI development resources this week… How to Build an AI Code Agent Thorsten Ball has published how to build your own AI code agent.

Two links this week… AI Logos Are All Buttholes In what might be the most important visual design analysis of 2025, Velvet Shark has compiled a gallery of AI company logos that look like buttholes.

I’m trying not to be perfectionist about this blogging thing, and concentrate on getting stuff out so in that spirit so this week there’s just a few links, all on AI.

Today’s fun is setting up the new Zapier MCP integration.

Trying something new, with a weekly-ish list of links 1) OAPs are radicalised too When Grandpa Turns Extremist: Digital Immigrants, Radicalisation and the German Reich Citizens Movement the radicalisation of middle-aged and elderly people remains largely…

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standardized approach for structuring context information when working with Large Language Models (LLMs).

Now Deep Research is available to ChatGPT users on the £20/mth tier, I’ve had a chance to experiment.

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