Scripting

My recommendation for Automattic and Bluesky.

In yesterday's podcast I mentioned a Microsoft promotional video from the 90s. JY Stervinou on Twitter asked if he had found it, and it was close but it was the video I was talking about. So I checked in with Claude with this prompt.

I have taught Claude Code to write software the way I do.

It has abilities that I don't, for example, I give them 1000 lines of code, highly factored, with lots of thought into making it readable and maintainable, and always falling short (our languages today fight against readability imho), and get this -- it can read different parts of the same code in parallel, and ...

i'd wait till a fresh start tomorrow.

but then i realized claude has all the code, so i could just tell it my problem.

can you find it, i asked, realizing i had not given it info on what the problem is.

there's a very weird mistake in the code i wrote just now, and there was a lot of it, i said to claude.

can you find the problem.

had no i...

I reached a point in my Claude work where now I can do vibe coding, in a world that I used to just be a programmer in. This means if I want to do a heavy lift, I can tell Claude what I want and it can do really big corner turns, which is something I am (as a human) terrible at, and thus resist. Today I redesigned the basic user interface of the app, and didn't read any code, ...