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@chalaska Still here and still in Melbourne ...

@jarodtaylor @itsolelehmann great work! I took your gist and the concept from the parent tweetm, added to it and created a similar Claude Code Skill github.com/davemac/claude…

I bet no one will use Cowork. Not because it isn't an incredible tool, but because people don't know how to use it. Claude Code is the ultimate prosumer tool. The 1% of 1% who can effectively leverage it in every which way can accomplish so much more than their pre-AI selves. But normal users don't really know what to do with it. I wouldn't even say this is a divide between professionals with an engineering background and those without one because I've seen many non-technical users become very proficient with Claude Code. The divide to me is a deeper skill somewhere between proficiency with AI and simple curiosity. There is a fundamentally different way to interact with a local agent versus a piece of traditional software. Feels like a push and pull thing. Most software you input data and then take actions to pull that data out in various ways. Dashboards, charts, spreadsheets, whatever. The software holds data and you pull from it. But agents you have to push. Push to find the right data, push to do the right thing, constantly nudge them along their way. This is a multi-step process that traditional software never had. Sure it can yield better results, but if you're bad at steering you never get there. Thats why I find my family to not be so impressed with AI. When I was home for Christmas I was talking about AI and in particular ChatGPT with my grandparents. My grandpa pulled out his phone, downloaded the app, and sent his first prompt. I forget what it was exactly but I instinctively stopped it and showed him how to improve it. The mistakes he made seemed so obvious to me but I think most people simply don't know how to prompt and use AI. This is the skill. I couldn't even really explain what was wrong besides "you have to give it everything to solve the problem" and he said "isn't it supposed to do that?" That one exchange kind of captures the whole problem. Technical people like us assume the barrier is the terminal. We think normal people are intimidated by command lines and code-looking interfaces. So we build prettier wrappers thinking thats the fix. Cowork is exactly this, Claude Code with a nicer UI and a friendlier name. But the real barrier was never the interface. It's the steering. It's knowing how to push. If you couldn't get value out of Claude Code, you probably won't get value out of Cowork either because the underlying interaction model is exactly the same. The tool was never the problem. The skill is.

Interesting Claude Code: "Scan my local network and find any interesting devices. Devise some interesting and useful things we could do with these devices. Check if they are hackable. By hackable, I mean we can ssh to them or connect to them via a shell or terminal. "

This is a great fun to ask ChatGPT or Claude: "Give me a Spotify wrapped version of my usage for the year"

@mishterkurth Yep, it’s a new dawn for sure …

@doodlestein @Distractosphere @iannuttall Agree. Hope that doesn’t happen?

@noahkagan Did my portfolio site with Lovable dmcweb.com.au … even though I am a WordPress developer.

@__morse @thomaspaulmann I don’t care about Raycast iOS but maybe I am in the minority?

@thomaspaulmann @__morse Agree, the store is too hard to use and I can’t see changelogs easily

@RobertHaisfield @mattshumer_ Yes I agree.

It’s amazing that no model has caught up with Claude on coding. Even if they look good on benchmark they’re still not as good at generating working good looking modern web apps. Whatever magic Anthropic did seems very durable.

@hItLeRsInGs @BrianRoemmele I think the steps there are referring to the Web UI github.com/browser-use/we…

10 years ago today, I published my big post on AI. It has aged quite well if I may say so myself. Of the many 2015 predictions I cited in the post about the rate of AI progress ahead, it seems that the most bullish are the ones who had it right.

Honestly, at this point If you give me a programming interview and don't let me use AI assistance you won't get a very realistic idea of what I'm actually capable of

Nick Dobos @NickADobos

2 years ago

Coding interviews should be using ai. If you disagree you literally don’t understand what ai is for Sure you can use it to fill gaps & find easy answers More importantly you can use it to accelerate and do much bigger things Failing to select for this skill will ruin tech co’s

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I recently made this python library 🗜️ Codebase-digest that packs codebase to LLM-friendly format .txt, .md, .json with one command. + library of more than 60 coding prompts e.g. "Reconstruct and structure user stories based on the codebase". Github: github.com/kamilstanuch/c…

We've added a Claude-powered prompt improver to the Anthropic Console. Take any prompt, run it through the improver, and get an optimized prompt in return. Here's how it works:

@mishterkurth @jonathan_dejong Yep, Cursor is a total game changer for me. I still type my instructions, but I think that is because it is so entrenched in me to do that, rather than dictate - want to work on that.

Been using SuperWhisper, ChatGPT and Claude for quite a while now but the big game changer had been Cursor.ai. I’m currently using superwhisper to dictate instructions without having to type and then pasting those instructions into Cursor, which goes about making all sorts of complex changes to a codebase for me to then review/accept. I’m now working on things I would have previously not been keen to take on due to the amount of work and the learning curve/research involved. I was really skeptical before trying Cursor until a friend of mine told me about how it’s revolutionizing his workflow.