Surely there's some gained and some lost. But coming from the era of buying an entire album, spending time reading the CD booklets and art, and listening to 10 songs which tell a larger story ---- what's being lost really hits home.

I've started to use git worktrees to parallelize my work. I spend so much time waiting...why not wait less on 2 things? This is not a solved problem in my setup. I have a hard time managing just two agents and keeping them isolated. But again, I'm the bottleneck. I think I could use 5 agents if my brain were smarter........or if the tools were better.

I am also a PM by day and I'm in Claude Code for PM work almost 90% of my day.

I’m building an app and many things I’d normally pay for like metrics and emailing I can just do myself.

A friend has a law firm employing 100+ people and they are building so many internal tools they would otherwise be delaying or paying salesforce consultants for.

I do believe whoever the font owners are paying just scrape the HTML and CSS looking for patterns matching their font.

I want people to have jobs.

Setting that aside, it is dependent on error rate of human surgeons, right?

I was surprised to receive the DMCA (it is hosted on GitHub Pages). I ignored the emails because…I’m lazy.

They (GitHub) eventually took down the repository (and site). So I swapped to another font and I don’t think my wife noticed.

I think all of this was still easier than probably paying for the font!

Lesson of the story? Don’t underestimate the impact of laziness on your potential customers.

I have been building a desktop app (electron-based) which interacts with Anthropic’s AgentSDK and the local file system.

It’s 100% spec driven and Claude Code has written every line. I do large features instead of small ones (spec in issue around 300 lines of markdown).

I have had it generate playwright tests from the start. It was doing okay but one thing made it do amazing. I created a spec driven pull request to use data-testid attributes for selectors.

Every new feature adds tests, and verifies it hasn’t broken existing features.

I don’t even bother with unit tests. It’s working amazing.

If I’m going to pick my kids up then I tell it to make it 10 minutes when read aloud. Then I listen to that on my drive.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/68284922

Here is my source file for it. It was so long ago I don’t recall all the details but you can retrieve this information using exif commands.

https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/blob/master/configs/ExifTo...

Thanks for starring the repo and let me know if you need any help.

It’s proven several times over that it’s the correct approach. Abstractions (formerly Google photos, currently Immich) should just be built on top - but these proprietary databases are only for convenience.

For work, I’m having the same experience as the author and everything is just markdown and csv files for Claude Code (for research and document writing).

[1] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

This is the ONLY point of software unless you’re doing it for fun.

The compounding is much greater than my brain can do on its own.