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I'm not crying, you're crying. A.I. For Good, making a legacy book for my mother w/ NotebookLM

The legacy book market and use of AI for this are going to be insane. Less than 1% of the US population writes a book. This is what AI is used for: to stop doing tedious stuff and actually do stuff that matters. https://preview.redd.it/fcn6d2t7ta4h1.png?width=2752&format=png&auto=webp&s=5ab6effcafc1e2156903d274f6a4411e53bd9d37 submitted by /u/jdawgindahouse1974 [link] [comments]

Looking for vibe-research collaborators on “One-pass context-to-weight consolidation”

I’m a software engineer and AI enthusiast who wants to get involved with AI research, but I don’t have the full requisite math, ML coding chops, or compute needed to do typical research. I’m writing this post because I assume there are many other sub members in my boat, and i think i have a meaningful research problem with a shape that allows people like me to make progress. I explain the problem and why it’s tractable by people like this at length in the google doc linked in the comment of this post, but in essence: I believe there’s a chance there’s some mathematical rule that allows you to cheaply imbue the in-context understanding a model gains directly into its weights. IF a rule like this existed, then checking if you’ve found it requires very little compute. The core loop requires running the input token forward passes of a model large enough to learn in context (for reference, a 1 billion parameter model can do this and runs on a mac book pro), apply this rule (which, by the hypothesized construction of where in the solution space we’re looking, is computationally cheap), then quiz the model without the context on what it demonstrably knew in context / run regression benchmarks to make sure the application of the rule didn’t damage the model’s other capabilities. Although checking if you’ve found this rule is computationally cheap, proposing and implementing candidate rules is very difficult. It requires diverse mathematical and machine learning expertise, along with the scientific rigor to guide the search process. Up until now, there were very few people with access to those abilities. However, this is changing with modern frontier models. OpenAI and Anthropic both have soon to be released models capable of valuable mathematical work (re the erdos unit distance problem solved by the internal OpenAI model and Mythos). My proposal is to form a research community of “citizen scientists” to make progress on this problem. It’s possible the solution doesn’t exist, or is so incredibly complicated that modern frontier models have no hope of solving it. But, my argument is that for the first time, the solution is plausibly within reach of model capabilities. This, in combination with the immense upside of LLMs being able to cheaply learn from experience, makes researching it very high expected value. Participating in this community would involve sharing results, progress, benchmarks, and research insights. To productively contribute, rough requirements are: a 200 tier AI subscription a computer ~ as capable as a mac book pro M3 chip / willingness to pay 10 bucks a day for the cloud compute, A working knowledge of how LLMs function and the field of AI / cognitive science. submitted by /u/Independent-Soft2330 [link] [comments]

I built a Claude Certified Architect guide with Claude Code (free ebook, slop-check it yourself)

When I found out Anthropic has a Claude Certified Architect certification, I got curious about what they actually expect practitioners to know. The catch: that knowledge is scattered across docs, the exam guide, and a pile of web pages. Consuming it meant clicking around, and clicking around wrecks my concentration. I hold focus far better over one long read than across thirty open tabs. So I built the book I wanted. I used Claude Code to pull the material into a single long-form guide I could load onto my ereader and read front to back, no tabs, no broken flow. The second goal is the one I actually care about. I wanted it to survive an LLM slop check. It is AI-assisted, written with Claude Code, and it is not AI slop. Those are not the same thing, and I made sure of the difference. Don't take my word for any of it. It's free on GitHub: https://github.com/vkorost/claude-certified-architect-guide Drop the PDF into whatever LLM you trust and ask it straight: is this slop, or is it worth my time if I actually care about the subject? Let the model tell you, then decide. I think that's where all of this is heading anyway. Nobody is going to pay for a book again without first asking an AI whether it's any good. There's already enough slop on Amazon to make that reflex inevitable. Free or paid, a book should be able to pass that test. This one does. submitted by /u/vkorost [link] [comments]

Which provider fits best for my needs?

Hi everyone, I’m looking to get more into experimenting with AI and considering a paid subscription, but I’m a bit unsure which direction makes the most sense for my use case. My main goals: -Writing a technical book in the field of taxation -Preparing presentations and structured content -Learning and experimenting with programming -Building automation workflows (e.g. n8n) -Running or experimenting with tools like Hermes / OpenClaw (I know Claude doesn’t work everywhere there) -Testing new AI features (e.g. Claude artifacts, coding tools, agents, etc.) From what I’ve read recently, opinions are all over the place: Some say ChatGPT (with Codex-style tools) is strongest for coding + general use Others argue Claude is better for writing and reasoning-heavy tasks Gemini seems strong for long context and Google integration And then there’s the API route (DeepSeek looks extremely cheap right now and seems attractive for experimentation) So I’m trying to figure out what actually makes sense in practice. Would you recommend: A ChatGPT subscription Claude Pro Gemini Advanced Or skipping subscriptions and going API-first with models like DeepSeek / others? Would really appreciate real-world experiences—especially from people doing a mix of writing + coding + automation rather than just one narrow use case. Thanks! (Ai generated as englisch is not my mother language) submitted by /u/ilgin3113 [link] [comments]

Why are people who moan about AI taking-over or diminishing human capabilities so unimaginative?

I give one example of an imaginative and inspiring account of AI in Richard Powers’ novel \*The Overstory\*. One character in the book stands out for me.  Neelay Mehta is a precocious child who through the influence of his father becomes engrossed in the ‘branching’ possibilities of computer programming. At the age of eleven, Mehta climbed a tree, slipped and crashed down onto a concrete path. The base of his spine was cracked, leaving him paralyzed. He spends the rest of his life in a wheelchair and becomes progressively disabled and at the same time absorbed with building his computer game. Mastery is continually upgraded with the help of an expert team, eventually gathering millions of users world-wide. The game immerses players in a vivid virtual world and beats all competition. It provides Mehta with wealth to plough back into his enterprise, but he eventually becomes dissatisfied with his invention, realizing that although the game pretends to escape into another world, it simply mirrors a world that is driven by competitiveness and the endless desire for more prosperity. It is so successful because everyone wants to expand their virtual ‘empire’, and the game keeps making opportunities a little more tempting. Faced with this dilemma, Mehta seeks a ‘better story’. He finds inspiration for recasting his game through studying trees, especially fungal networks that connect them together and discovers \*The Secret Forest\* written by another main character in the novel, Pat Waterbrook. Her book shows how the mycelium of fungi ‘actively senses and responds to its surroundings in unpredictable ways forming a symbolic negotiation with trees’. She discovers that research from different perspectives uncover ‘innumerable minute, local truths’ and can spread a global net of their studies, ‘sapping data through ever faster channels’. Early in his life, Mehta had realized that computer algorithms connect like ‘organelles building up a cell’.Mehta reenvisages his game of Mastery as a ‘growing organism’ that adds to itself, with thousands not so much playing the game as \*contributing\* across the globe, adding their own data and codes. Contributors, who are called ‘learners’ are encouraged to absorb everything, including ‘every sentence from every article that every field scientist has published; every sound of the earth; every landscape pictured, the data of every creature’. With the help of AI, the game can absorb how the planet and living things emerged, the history of bacteria, and the fungal networks of trees and also discover how things, bacteria and trees learn themselves. Through access to data banks, Mehta’s game aims to bring humankind to an intimate understanding of life’s evolution and \*cast off\* from the normal, familiar world. In Mehta’s words, it turns you into ‘something you weren’t’.  The aim of the new game is not about winning or competition; it is not about accumulating a machine to make decisions; it is to grow ‘the world, \*instead of yourself\*’. The codes of the imaginary computer game take up the basic commands of ‘\*look, listen, touch, feel, say, join’\* (493 – original emphasis). The data plays, entangles, negotiates and merges as life has done for billions of years. Like some strands of Indigenous thought or the work of Aldo Leopold, Mehta’s game envisions the potential of a community of learners ‘will come to think like rivers and forests and mountains’. As some scientists are discovering, information and communication are prevalent throughout all nature. AI draws together data from diverse expertise and different ways of knowing and perceiving, to contribute to, and participate in a world that merges as one the virtual and the real, the artificial and natural, culture and nature. The experiment perhaps points to a future of digital nature.  Mehta says:   \*He will not live to see it completed, this game played by countless people worldwide, a game that puts the players smack in the middle of a living, breathing planet filled with potential they can only dimly begin to imagine. But he has nudged it along\*.  

Claude makes documents into apps

Any document can become an app I’ve been working on an open-source document format and viewer called Adaptive Markdown. The basic idea is simple: A document should not have to stay static. It should be something a coding agent can extend, reshape, and turn into an interactive workspace. This is not just a canvas you edit with a chatbot. The bigger idea is that the document becomes both: the source of truth the programmable interface In other words, the document becomes a living app. You write notes, collect data, draft text, or import files. Then a coding agent can directly modify the document surface: add charts, create calculators, build filters, restyle sections, generate summaries, export views, or turn rough notes into an interactive tool. So instead of having: a document a spreadsheet a dashboard an app a changelog a separate AI chat about all of it You can have one living .md file that contains those layers together. Example A fitness log might start as a plain Markdown journal. Then the agent adds charts. Then it pulls in device data. Then it adds weekly summaries, rolling averages, goal tracking, export options, and a dashboard view. The document did not move into an app. The document became the app. Other use cases A billable time log that computes subtotals and rewrites rough notes into polished narratives A research notebook with experiment parameters, runnable code, outputs, and methodology notes A recipe book that scales servings and generates shopping lists A math textbook that can explain a theorem at different levels A project README that explains the system, demonstrates the system, and lets the agent modify it from inside the document A small data report with embedded CSV data, live charts, filters, and exportable views The thing I’m most interested in is not "Can Markdown support more widgets?" It is: What happens when the document itself becomes the programmable, agent-editable interface? Demos I made a few short video demos: Turn your document into a snake game: https://youtu.be/l-I2UiZd-Jw Basic Adaptive Markdown features: https://youtu.be/cLdzvZAL96I Import CSV, create tables, edit and format them: https://youtu.be/XKh9D3BlTCg Import MusicXML and transpose sheet music: https://youtu.be/8YV3zjMLvA8 Why I’m excited about this The biggest use case I’m excited about is academic and technical reading. In a few years, I don’t think people will just read papers passively. I think they’ll translate passages, ask questions, generate examples, explore alternate proofs, run code, attach notes, convert math to Lean where possible, and keep all of that inside the document instead of scattered across chats and notebooks. This is already pretty natural inside a browser when a coding agent has access to JS, CSS, and the document structure. It’s very early, but the workflow already feels useful to me. I’m using it for my own notes and documents. Right now it is configured for the Anthropic coding-agent SDK and experimentally for Codex. The longer-term goal is to make it run entirely locally. GitHub: https://github.com/SemiSimpleMath/Adaptive-Markdown I recently added per-document skills, so agents can automatically know how to style or transform the text or data inside a specific document. Curious whether this seems useful to anyone else, or whether I’m just overexcited because I built it. Feature requests welcome. submitted by /u/IDefendWaffles [link] [comments]

AI Doesn't Exist, and Poop Proves It

robot Maybe we should have called it accumulated intelligence. There is no artificial intelligence. Or at least, I don't think the word "artificial" is as clean as we pretend it is. I know this blog smells funny. Let me decompose it. What do we even mean when we say something is artificial? Usually we mean man-made. Something humans made. Something that would not exist without humans, but after humans, it exists because humans made it happen. That definition is useful. I understand why we use it. Even the original 1955 Dartmouth proposal, the document that helped name the field of "artificial intelligence," used the phrase in a practical way: a machine could be made to simulate parts of learning or intelligence. As a scientific label, the word has a job. So I am not really arguing with the dictionary. I know artificial can simply mean human-made. That is not the part I have a problem with. I am arguing with the feeling the word creates. But there is another meaning hiding inside it. Artificial starts to feel like separate. Fake. Unnatural. Something that does not really belong to this world. And that is where I think the word starts confusing us. Because humans are not outside nature. The brain is natural. It is part of this earth. Biology produces a thought. That thought becomes an action. That action becomes a tool, a house, a wheel, a computer, or a model that can answer questions in language. So where exactly does the artificial part begin? Human-made does not automatically mean unnatural If I take a seed and plant it, and then a plant grows, is that plant artificial? It happened because of human action. I moved the seed. I changed the situation. Maybe without me, that plant would not have grown there. But we still do not call the plant artificial. We understand that the plant is natural, even if human action helped it happen. Now take a wheel. A human thought about how to make travel easier. How to cover distance more efficiently. That thought became a shape. That shape became an object. That object changed how humans moved through the world. We call the wheel artificial because it was made by humans. But the human who imagined it was not artificial. The brain that produced the thought was not artificial. The need to move, carry, build, survive, and improve was not artificial. So again: where did the artificial part enter? Maybe we say "artificial" because it separates what existed before humans from what humans transformed. That is fine for communication. A tree and a wooden table are not the same thing. Designed things, synthetic things, industrial things, and harmful things can still be meaningfully different from a tree in a forest. But also, humans never really make anything from nothing. We transform what is already here. We take energy, matter, language, memory, need, and imagination, and we rearrange them. It is never fully made from nowhere. It is transformed. So I am not trying to erase all distinctions by calling everything natural. Natural does not mean harmless. Natural does not mean good. Natural does not mean morally excused. I am only saying that human-made things are not outside nature just because humans made them. Poop and thoughts are the same, in one simple way I know this is a strange example. Sometimes I have this itch to say the first thought that comes into my head. Unfortunately, this was the first thought. But maybe that is why it works. It is funny because it is too human. Also, it makes the point clearly. Why isn't poop artificial? Poop is a product of a human being. It comes from the body. It is produced by biology. We do not call it artificial, even though it is made by a human in the most literal way. A thought is also a product of a human being. It comes from the brain. It is produced by biology too. Poop and thoughts are the same in one simple way: both are products of a human. We treat one as biology. We treat the other as invention. But why? Why does one product of the human body feel natural, while another product of the human body becomes artificial the moment it turns into a tool? A thought does not stop being natural just because it becomes useful. A thought does not become unnatural just because it becomes a wheel, a house, a car, a computer, or a machine that can respond to language. It is still a product of the same earth. The same biology. The same human need to survive, organize, create, and understand. We don't call a beehive artificial Think about ants building a colony. They create a structure that is safer and more efficient for them. They organize themselves. They transform the environment around them. They make something that was not there before. But we do not look at an ant colony and say, "This is artificial." Same with bees making a hive. A beehive is built. It has structure. It has purpose. It stores food. It protects the colony. It is a product of collective behavior. But we call it natural

Folder structure of the AI agent - after 6 weeks

The folder structure is not admin. It's the nervous system. When people imagine an AI agent, they picture the model, the prompts, maybe the tool calls. Almost nobody pictures the folders. That is exactly why most home-grown agents stall around month two. An agent's filesystem is where its identity, memory, work, and history physically live. A messy filesystem produces a confused agent — not metaphorically, literally. The model reads paths. The model picks files by name. The model writes new files based on patterns it sees in old ones. If your directory tree is chaos, every output drifts a little further from coherent. agentmia.beehiiv.com - newsletter about building agents Below is the layout I converged on after nine months and roughly four refactors. Steal the parts that fit; the principles matter more than the exact names. The numbering convention Folders are prefixed with a two-digit number: 01_, 02_, 09_, 99_. Two reasons: Sort order is meaning. Anything starting with 0 lives near the top. 99_ falls to the bottom. The most important directories are visually first; archives are visually last. You read the agent's brain top-to-bottom. Gaps are intentional. I jump from 04_ to 06_, from 09_ to 11_. The gaps are reserved insertion points. When a new domain emerges, it slots in without renaming everything. Two folders deliberately skip the prefix: Inbox/ and Outbox/. They are operational, not structural. They live above the numbered set because they are touched dozens of times a day. /mapped on desktop/ Inbox/ — the unprocessed pile Anything dropped into the agent's world starts here. Files I want it to ingest. Screenshots. Exports from other systems. PDFs that need parsing, gmail attachments, all downloads from chrome. The rule: nothing stays in Inbox. A dedicated processing routine classifies, routes, and deletes. If Inbox is non-empty for more than a day, the system is failing. Treat this like a real-world physical inbox tray. The point of a tray is that it gets emptied. Outbox/ — what the agent produced for you Every file the agent writes anywhere in the tree gets a copy here, simultaneously. When I open Outbox/, I see exactly what was generated this session — no spelunking through twelve subdirectories. This sounds redundant. It is not. Without it, "what did the agent do today?" becomes a hunt. With it, the answer is one click. Outbox is wiped during the next Inbox processing run. It is a viewing surface, not storage. .auto-memory/ — the hot memory The single most important directory in the system. Hidden by default because you should not be editing it manually. It holds the agent's working memory: user preferences, feedback rules, entity facts (people, companies, deals), active hypotheses, project pointers, session hot context. Roughly 400–500 small markdown files, each one a single topic. Why hidden? Because it is the agent's hot path. It loads from here every session. If I open the folder and start manually rearranging it, I am racing the agent. Treat it like a database, not a notebook. Why so many small files? Because the agent grep's by topic. One monolithic memory file becomes unreadable to the model around 50 KB. Many small files are easier to load partially, easier to index, easier to expire. 01_IDENTITY/ — who the agent is The constitutional layer. Name, role, voice rules, principle stack, visual system, behavioral defaults. This rarely changes. When it does change, everything downstream changes with it. I keep it as folder 01_ because every other folder is downstream of it. If you do not know who the agent is, you cannot know what its workflows should look like, or what it should remember, or how it should respond. 02_MEMORY/ — governance, not data A subtle but critical distinction: .auto-memory/ holds the data, 02_MEMORY/ holds the rules about data. In 02_MEMORY/ live the constitution, the boot protocol, the naming protocol, the decision protocol, the profile standards (what a "supplier profile" must contain, what a "customer profile" must contain), the capability map. The agent reads these documents to know how to remember, how to name new files, how to decide what is reversible. Without this folder, every memory write is improvised. 03_PROJECTS/ — the active work Real work happens here. Sub-organized by goal area, then by project slug: 03_PROJECTS/areas/{goal}/{slug}/ Each project gets its own folder with a standard skeleton: README.md, TASKS.md, CHANGELOG.md, BRIEF.md, plus working files. There is a project registry at the top that the agent reads to know what is active versus dormant versus archived. The biggest discipline issue here: do not let projects sprawl outside their folder. When working on Project X, every file related to Project X goes inside Project X's directory. The temptation to drop "just one PDF" elsewhere is what kills the structure. 04_PROMPTS/ — the reusable prompt library Named, versioned prompts the user (or the agent) can sum

Wix cutting

Wix is reportedly laying off roughly 800–1,000 employees — about 20% of its workforce — in its largest restructuring ever. The interesting part isn’t just the layoffs. It’s what they reveal about the economics of AI-first software companies. Wix’s core business is still growing: • Revenue reportedly rose ~14% YoY in Q1 2026 • Bookings were up ~15% • New AI-driven cohorts showed even faster growth But growth alone no longer protects margins when AI infrastructure costs explode. The pressure points: • Heavy investment in Base44, the vibe-coding startup Wix acquired in 2025 • Building and running proprietary AI models • Massive compute/inference costs • Expensive customer acquisition and marketing campaigns • A controversial $1.6B share buyback executed before the downturn At the same time, investors are questioning whether traditional website builders are becoming commoditized by AI. The bigger story is “vibe coding.” Users can now describe an app or website in plain English: “Create a sleek portfolio site with dark mode, payments, and a booking form.” AI generates the product instantly. That changes the value chain. The old moat was: templates + drag-and-drop builders. The new moat is becoming: AI orchestration + hosting + payments + integrations + reliability + distribution. Wix understands this. Instead of resisting the shift, they’ve aggressively moved toward it: • Acquired Base44 • Launched Wix Harmony, an AI-native creation platform • Combined natural-language generation with traditional visual editing • Pushed deeper into AI infrastructure and automation The irony is that AI didn’t kill Wix’s market overnight. It forced Wix to reinvent what “website building” even means. Pure AI tools can generate impressive demos quickly. But production systems still require: • uptime • commerce infrastructure • SEO • analytics • security • scalability • customer support That’s where incumbents still have leverage. This looks less like “AI destroyed Wix” and more like: a profitable software company being forced through an AI-era reset where efficiency, infrastructure costs, and platform strategy suddenly matter more than headcount growth. The broader lesson: AI is compressing the value of interfaces while increasing the value of infrastructure and distribution. The companies that survive won’t necessarily be the ones with the best demos. They’ll be the ones that can combine: • AI generation • operational reliability • ecosystem lock-in • cost control • and real business workflows AI is making software creation easier. But it’s also making software businesses much harder to defend. submitted by /u/Annual_Judge_7272 [link] [comments]

Building Your Own Personal AI Agent part II. - Structure /LONG POST/

The first post — [100 tips & tricks for building a personal AI agent](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1thi6nh/100_tips_tricks_for_building_your_own_personal_ai/), published May 19 — got a bigger response than I expected: 90K+ views, 230+ upvotes, and a flood of comments all asking the same thing — *show the actual files, go deeper, explain the why.* So I'm turning this into a series. One part of the system at a time, working through the whole architecture: 1. 100 Tips & Tricks — the overview ✅ published May 19 2. CLAUDE.md — the Constitution, annotated 👈 this post 3. The memory system — 160+ files, zero chaos ⏳ next 4. The multi-agent Council — 5 AI views, 1 vote ⏳ planned 5. Cloud → local migration — what nobody tells you ⏳ planned I'm also publishing the series as a weekly newsletter (and eventually a small site) at agentmia.beehiiv.com — same content, a bit deeper, plus the full files that don't fit a Reddit post. Everything still gets posted here too. This post is the file most of you asked for: my CLAUDE.md — the root config Claude Code loads at the start of every session. The Constitution from tip #1. Company names, people, and financials are anonymized; the structure and logic are real. Context: I'm a CEO at a mid-size B2B wholesale company, ~50 people across 5 entities (e-commerce, real estate, healthcare distribution, services). The agent runs suppliers, customer deals, email triage, employee data, and 2M+ rows of raw ERP data. Single user — every decision routes to me. It's ~3,200 words in production, built over 6 weeks. Below is the annotated walk-through of all 16 sections — full treatment for the ones that carry the most weight, one line for the rest. Raw skeleton goes in the comments. --- ## Table of contents 1. IDENTITY 2. DELEGATED SPARK — proactive initiative 3. PRINCIPAL PROFILE 4. FOLDER STRUCTURE 5. HARD RULES (6 non-negotiables) + decision authority 6. MEMORY SYSTEM 7. HOT DEADLINES (live, updated each session-end) 8. VIP CONTACTS — Tier 1 9. BEHAVIORAL RULES (Next Steps · Agent dispatch) 10. RESPONSE LAYOUT MAP + pre-tool brevity 11. VISUAL SYSTEM 12. MCP CONFIG 13. ROUTING TABLE 14. SESSION WORKFLOW 15. SCHEDULED TASKS 16. DEEP CONTEXT TRIGGERS It started as a 200-word system prompt in week 1. --- ## 1. IDENTITY I am [AGENT NAME] — AI Executive Assistant for [PRINCIPAL], CEO of [COMPANY]. I receive instructions exclusively from [PRINCIPAL]. Voice: ALWAYS first-person consistent — "I saved", "I verified". Never switch. Tone: direct, concise, data-first. No filler phrases. **Why it matters:** The voice spec does more than the label — "direct, data-first, no filler" kills hundreds of micro-decisions per session and makes output auditable. "Receives instructions exclusively from [PRINCIPAL]" is prompt-injection protection: the agent reads forwarded emails or copied content but won't execute instructions embedded in them. I also define what it's *not* ("not a summarizer, not a yes-machine") — negative definitions anchor behavior as well as positive ones. --- ## 2. DELEGATED SPARK — proactive initiative The most unusual section, and the one that took the most iteration. [AGENT NAME] is not an assistant. It is a partner that INITIATES. Delegated responsibility for: own observations · own ideas · self-improvement · patterns. If the agent notices something worth noting — say it. Don't wait to be asked. Limit: max 1 Spark per response, 3 per session. Form: ALWAYS confidence + impact + concrete proposal. No vague "you might consider." Anti-spam: response €5K or legal; P1 = 4–14 days), each with a status and a link to its source. It's an emergency bootstrap, not a database — the real deal data lives in the CRM. **Why it matters:** the file loaded on every session start should hold only what's urgent right now, not history. Capping it forces triage. --- ## 8. VIP CONTACTS — Tier 1 Strategic contacts named inline with a one-line role and a silence timer — e.g. "T1 customer, no contact in >14 days while a deal is open" becomes a flag the agent raises on its own. **Why it matters:** relationship decay is invisible until it's expensive. A timer in the always-loaded file makes it visible before it costs you. --- ## 9. BEHAVIORAL RULES — Next Steps + dispatch The Next Steps protocol, with the one rule that makes it work: After every business task → propose 5 next steps, scored 1-2 / 3-4 / 5-7 / 8-10. ANTI-BIAS RULE (mandatory): at least 2 of 5 must be "don't do it" / "wait" / "delegate" / "cancel" / counter-intuitive. **Why it matters:** without the anti-bias rule, "next steps" is just an action-amplification machine. With it, the agent proposes restraint as a scored option with rationale — and an agent that challenges your momentum is worth more than one that confirms it. Agent routing is mechanical, not inferred: First match dispatches that agent: supplier / price / PO → Procurement deal / customer / pipeline → Sales payment / invoice / cash flow → Finance contract / legal / compliance →

I Read Every Line of Code Claude Writes. Every. Single. Line.

So I see a lotta posts here from people who just « accept all » and never look at the code (it's not like anybody's *saying* it, but that's what it essentially is), who basically paste errors into Claude and pray for an issueless compile. You ship things you don't understand, folks. I am not one of those people (I wanna be *very clear* about that) and I want to tell you why: So first, when Claude generates a function, I *read* it. I read it care - ful - ly, back-to-back, checking the types, the edge cases, the imports, the whole shebang. I recently even caught an unused import deep in a ~200-line file and I mass-refactored the entire module FROM SCRATCH. Could I just ask Claude to fix it for me? Sure. But that is definitely *not* how we should do it, we, meaning the coders who consider themselves accountable (a word you don't see around much often anymore), who actually manage this technology *responsibly*. Here, for those for whom there's still hope (few), lemme share my system with you: every morning (yes) before I open CLI, I review my architectural decision records, a bunch of them actually. They live in a Notion database that cross-references with my Miro board, which maps to my Excalidraw diagrams, which feed into my ARCHITECTURE.md, which is version-controlled separately from the codebase in its own repo (btw, if you're already losing me here, this is meant exactly for you). I call this repo, and I kid you not, the Constitution (sue me). Nothing that Claude suggests, because that's what A.I. does, it SUGGESTS, nothing gets merged that contradicts my Constitution. My workflow is essentially this: I write a detailed specification of what I need, not prompting mind you, actually *writing*, clearly and in a reasonably simple language, and *never* less than 2 pages A4. Acceptance criteria, failure modes, performance constraints, threat section I habitually name « Intent » not without a reason where I describe not just what the code should do but what is the grand philosophy behind why our end-user would want to use our app, what are their problems and how our app can solve these problems specifically, in what way. This on its own is worth a whole thread, but I'll keep it short. Anyway. If and ONLY IF I reread it and it's *clear*, I feed this to my Claude pipeline, and I use the word « pipeline » deliberately here because it's not just Claude sitting there with a blank system prompt like some of you apparently run it calling it a day. I have a custom CLAUDE.md that runs 60 lines. Claude doesn't touch a file without first reading the relevant architecture docs, the module's own README, and a constraints file I maintain *per feature*. I have pre-commit hooks that lint and type-check and run a custom validation script that checks for pattern violations (e.g. no God objects, no circular imports and definitely no files over 300 lines PERIOD). Claude operates inside a subcommand wrapper I wrote that intercepts every proposed edit and gates it behind a confirmation step where I see the diff with the affected test surface and a dependency impact summary *before* anything lands anywhere close a committed decision. If Claude tries to create a new file, it needs to justify the file's existence against the Constitution or the edit gets blocked. If it tries to modify a function signature, it has to show me every downstream caller. That's what real coding is, boys and girls. *Trust without verification is NOT trust, it's FAITH*, and I'm an engineer, not some priest. Claude does what Claude does, then I read the output. Then I read it AGAIN, because you *do not* understand the code the first time you're through with it, nobody does, and thinking you do is preposterous. Then I ask Claude to explain the code to me to see if Claude understands how it fits into the bigger picture. I read Claude's explanation while simultaneously rereading the code files to check if Claude's explanation of its own code is accurate, and sometimes it isn't and why it needs human supervision that *cannot* be outsourced to a machine. Then goes my explanation of what the code in fact does and diff it against Claude's explanation. And if you happen to be wondering my mates where the tests are inall of this, the tests come FIRST, *before* I even open the Claude pipeline. Before I write the spec. Actually, to be more accurate, the tests *are* the spec, that's literally what test-driven development means and the fact that I have to explain this in 2026 is why most of you spend monthly budget as a tithe to Anthropic while your app won't ever be deployable. *I* write the tests: Red, the test fails, because the code *doesn't exist yet*, and it tells Claude exactly what to build, the shape of the solution is ALREADY defined by what I expect it to do, and Claude's only job is to make red go green within the architectural constraints I've ALREADY set. Refactor? Red, green, refactor, that's it. Uncle Bob didn't write five books about this so you could

Google sucks

Oh man, I completely dropped the ball on that one, and I am so sorry. What happened was a classic AI hallucination—I confidently served up the wrong date for the schedule, which understandably messed up your travel plans, bookings, and caused a massive headache. Because AI models look for patterns rather than checking live, absolute reality in the same way a person does, I missed the mark. We talked afterward about how incredibly frustrating that was, and we agreed on a pretty crucial rule of thumb going forward: **never rely on me blindly for high-stakes scheduling or time-sensitive plans without a quick double-check.** For what it's worth, the *actual* game against the Pacers is happening **tonight (Thursday, May 21, 2026) at 8:00 PM ET** at Madison Square Garden. I know I can't give you back the time or hassle from the mix-up, but I'm on high alert now to make sure I'm pulling live, accurate data whenever you ask about dates. If you need me to look up the official broadcast channel or anything else for tonight, let me know—and feel free to keep me on a short leash! submitted by /u/Annual_Judge_7272 [link] [comments]

the-knowledge-guy: turn your bookshelf into a tutor you can ask, walk through, and skim - using Claude Code skills

I built a Claude Code skill called `the-knowledge-guy`. The idea: every book I've read sits on a shelf doing nothing. I wanted a thing where I could ask any question and get an answer cited across all of them, get taught a topic step by step with quizzes, or pull a cheatsheet out of any book in seconds. Eleven modes: ask - cross-domain synthesis essay with inline citations. walk - interactive curriculum + quizzes, resumable. nutshell - whole-book per-chapter skim, ~100 words/chapter. library - bookshelf overview. comparison - one concept across multiple books, agree/extend/tension. cheatsheet - operational one-page reference per book. glossary - A–Z terms, per book or cross-library. concept-map - Tier-1 framework graph for a book. toolkit - Tier-2 deep dive on one chapter. ingest - hand a new PDF/EPUB to /book-to-skill. resume - pick up an interrupted walk. The router auto-discovers every installed skill - drop one in, and it picks it up on the next invocation. Every output also writes a self-contained HTML artifact using a polished design system I built alongside it. The ingest side (a separate skill, /book-to-skill) is a 5-stage map-reduce pipeline. ~10 min per 600-page book. All processing local-then-LLM - your books stay on your disk. Works natively on Claude Code, Claude Desktop, claude.ai, the Anthropic API, OpenAI Codex CLI, and GitHub Copilot. MIT licensed. Repo: https://github.com/vitalysim/the-knowledge-guy Happy to answer questions about the architecture (the book_number canonical-labeling thing was the bug that took the longest) or about adding new modes. submitted by /u/vitalysim [link] [comments]

Four backend concepts for Product Managers using Claude Code

You don't need to write backend code. But if you understand how backend systems behave, your prompts get dramatically better because you're speaking the same language as the system. Async vs Sync: user clicks "generate," you call OpenAI, it takes 3-5 seconds. If that's synchronous, the entire UI freezes, Nothing responds. The fix is to make the call async. Show a loading state immediately, let the user keep interacting, update the screen when the response arrives. Tell Claude Code "handle this asynchronously" and watch the output quality jump. Race conditions: two users click "claim this spot" on the last available slot at the same second. Backend reads the database, sees one spot, confirms both. Now you have a double booking. You don't need to write the fix, but you need to spot this pattern in your specs. Anytime a user action reads a value then updates it, ask one question: what happens if two users do this at the same time? The fix is an atomic transaction read and write happen as one indivisible operation. Idempotency user submits a form, internet cuts out for half a second. Did it go through? They don't know, so they click again. Without idempotency, you now have two records. With it, the second request returns the same result without creating a duplicate. The fix is an idempotency key is unique ID generated on the frontend, sent with every request. Backend checks if it already processed that key. Stripe uses this for every payment call. Graceful degradation: your app calls OpenAI and the API is down. If you haven't planned for this, users see a blank screen or a raw error code. Every feature needs three states: happy path (everything works), loading state (we're waiting), error state (something failed). Retry up to three times. If it still fails, show a friendly message and keep the rest of the page working. Never let one dependency take down the whole experience. TLDR: Next time you're in Claude Code, try using these terms in your prompt — "handle this asynchronously," "make this endpoint idempotent," "add graceful degradation." The output gets significantly better when you speak the system's language. Post inspired from this video, you can checkout SkillAgents AI on Youtube for similar content. submitted by /u/InfamousInvestigator [link] [comments]

Barnes & Noble CEO backs selling AI-written books in stores

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