Claude Code unlocks a new order of magnitude of output for engineers.
Claude Code unlocks a new order of magnitude of output for engineers.[cg] With things like Cursor autocomplete, it was possible to work the same way you did...
Topic: Claude
253 mentions · 187 chunks · 78 episodes
35.3× distinctiveness vs baseline
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2.5x burst in 2026 Q1
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- Claude appears in 187 chunks across 78 episodes, from 2024-04-08 to 2026-06-15.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 1/26/26 (2026-01-26), with 8 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with Claude Code, wild west, and Anthropic, while by chunk count it sits between llms and ChatGPT; its yearly rank moved from #16 in 2024 to #2 in 2026.
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Excellent piece from Jasmine Sun about Claude Code Psychosis.
Excellent piece from Jasmine Sun about Claude Code Psychosis. In it she describes how people who know parkour see stairs differently. They're constantly asking themselves, "could I scale that?" S...
The users of Claude Code aren't necessarily developers.
The users of Claude Code aren't necessarily developers. Developer implies "makes software for others." But some people using Claude Code are just using it to make softwa...
Will non-PMs ever write their own software?
Will non-PMs ever write their own software? Claude Code asks you lots of structured questions. But many of those questions are hard to answer if you can't think like a PM and at a very high level like...
When you're applying calibrated judgment you're adding value.
...you feel like just a traffic cop shuttling information from someone to and from Claude Code you're still exercising judgment about what to share.
A trick I've used to stop myself from getting stuck in an infinite loop of feeding my Claudes.
...k I've used to stop myself from getting stuck in an infinite loop of feeding my Claudes. I typically have between 2 and 6 Claude Codes chugging on various projects. I often find myself saying "I'll just feed my Claudes quickly and then ...
I vibe-coded a book for my family.
...a book version with AI illustrations. I created an empty git repo and booted up Claude Code. I told it the background and also dictated the story as it currently existed. It's been honed over dozens of retellings. I told it my goal was ...
There are two kinds of people in the world today: those who have used Claude Code and those who haven't.
There are two kinds of people in the world today: those who have used Claude Code and those who haven't. Claude Code is a window into the future of what is possible with AI. People who haven't used it yet have much less of a s...
Clawdbot is the closest to what the future will look like.
Clawdbot i[cq]s the closest to what the future will look like. Claude Code, but for your life. Open, and under your control. Wildly, recklessly dangerous, and requires the user to be comfortable with the command line. B...
Rebecca Kaden: I Don't Want to Build Apps (or at least not the ones I actually use)
...ed with AI, the vast majority of people will not be directly creating software. Claude Code is 0.01% of consumers, and will never get much beyond that.
LLMs are a commodity, and if you act like that, a lot of things become more clear.
...ut to the real thing, you won't care as much. A lot of people are talking about Claude's changes in its Constitution. I personally don't care and couldn't be bothered to care. I also don't care about logarithmic improvements in the fron...
Don't use Claude to think for you.
Don't use Claude to think for you. Use it to do cognitive labor for you. You're doing the thinking, and it's helping you lever your thinking farther.
In 5 years, everyone will assume published writing is co-written by AI.
... rare to the default. In the intermediate the bylines will say "Co-written with Claude" But later it will only say "Hand-crafted by" in the cases that it wasn't used.
This week in the Wild West roundup.
This week in the Wild West roundup. Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files. That was quick! It's like they didn't even try to protect it. "Here's a rusty chainsaw we just vibecoded, novice user. It's...
Claude loses the plot every so often.
Claude loses the plot every so often. You have to ask it to take a step back and reconsider. It's so busy taking the next step that it forgets to see where ...
Deepfates: "More people need to understand that Claude Code is a general intelligence that can do stuff on your computer."
Deepfates: "More people need to understand that Claude Code is a general intelligence that can do stuff on your computer."
Claude Code's infinite patience means that if it gets pointed in the wrong direction it will just plow through multiple walls and do some damage.
Claude Code's infinite patience means that if it gets pointed in the wrong direction it will just plow through multiple walls and do some damage. That means...
A tweet: "just mass cancelled $27k/year in subscriptions
A tweet: "just mass cancelled $27k/year in subscriptions made a claude code skill that: 1. reads credit card statements/extracts subscriptions 2. automatically asks follow-up q's to clarify which ones you want to cancel ...
I feel like the mama bird feeding my little Claude Codes.
I feel like the mama bird feeding my little Claude Codes. They're like little chirping birds, begging to be fed. The more I invest in them, the more they produce useful things. There's always at least...
This week I created an origin story book for my kids.
...cided to make it into a proper book. I just created an empty git repo, launched Claude Code, and then talked to it off and on for days, accumulating a workflow, tools, content, generated images, etc. It just kept on accumulating tools a...