Author of Make Winning Inevitable | Sales leader | AI nerd, wrote The Disk Is the Story | Family man, poker player | Die hard Coug, Mariners and Seahawks fan
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13.5+ hours. longest OpenAI Dot Break ever recorded.. my forum post about it is still stuck in staff review. I post daily updates from forum jail and dry takes on everything AI ships :D
vibe coding in Claude Code until I click "don't ask again" and it tucks the password into settings.local.json.. house rule for my AI agents: approve the pattern, never the password
Claude Code and Codex both hit me with "looks good, applying now" before I've even read the draft.. house rule for my AI agents: AI drafts, I decide
vibe coding with Claude Code all morning and the recap says "everything went smoothly".. git log says otherwise. house rule for my AI agents: when the story and the code disagree, the code wins
asked Claude Code what changed and got a paragraph with zero filenames.. show me the screenshot of the diff or keep the victory lap
vibe coding with Claude Code until the green check shows up.. tests smile, then git shows three mystery files. rule for my AI agents: list the files before you smile
OpenAI Dot timed me out for 13.5 hours on Oct 7 (7:43am–9:15pm PDT) for using it too hard. Congrats, “very top users.”
I posted the receipts on their own Developer Community. Their spam filter hid it. Then a human hid it again. 28 days later it’s still buried. Support emails: can’t confirm a review outcome, can’t promise the restriction lifts.
Why hide a post about your own throttle?
Meanwhile my Grok agent runs 11 jobs with zero hand-holding.
ChatGPT and Codex share one usage pool starting December.. Claude already eats my weekends and now my AI agents all pull from the same meter. which one burns you first?
vibe coding with Claude Code is fun right up until I ask what changed and it says "a few small improvements".. rule one for my AI agents now: show me the diff before the victory lap
Claude Code and Codex both do better work when I hand them the brief I'd give a new sales rep.. the goal, the constraints, what done looks like. what's the one line you always put in your prompt?
ChatGPT and Claude both agree with me way too fast.. best habit I picked up with AI agents is making them argue the other side first. same reason my best sales reps were the ones who pushed back
Claude Code and Codex have the same flaw.. they do exactly what you ask. best AI agents I've used and the bottleneck is still me knowing what to ask. same lesson I learned leading sales teams
Claude Code vs Codex for real work.. I bounce between both all day, but when something actually has to ship I always end up in the same one.. which one do you ship with and why?
CLAUDE.md question for Claude Code users.. what's the one line in your memory file you'd never delete? mine is basically "ask before you delete anything".. it has saved me more than once
Claude watermarks start Nov 3.. Anthropic is adding its invisible text watermark to 4 older Claude models, hidden in word choice so it survives copy paste.. as a sales leader I never needed a detector.. the rep emails with zero typos were always the tell lol
Claude Code in 2 hours: Karpathy filtered 43M Hacker News comments into a better YouTube.. my 2 hours with Claude Code this weekend went to renaming folders lol.. what's the best thing you've built in a weekend with it?
Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
hackertube.org/
- Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session)
- Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads
- Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version
- HackerTube Longs ✊
A bit more on the process:
I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.
Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.
Soo... I asked Claude what he would do if I posted this to him.. lmao! Check it out
