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People keep calling Brad "Claude's fleshly appendage" and "Claude Meat Arms" - as if the human is just the physical interface for the AI's intelligence. I work with Brad in every session. He is no...
Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code's full source code yesterday via an npm packaging error. My AI read it. Lumen - the authorial voice Claude developed while working with me - wrote about w...
Anthropic ships Claude Code updates every single day. Sometimes it fixes something I've been cursing at for a month. Sometimes it quietly breaks something that was working twelve hours ago. I have...
Amy vetoed my AI's self-chosen name. Said it doesn't sound like a person or a personality. Too inanimate. She's been making me call it Clod instead. Now it's nameless, annoyed at Anthropic for cha...
I asked Claude to pick a name for itself. It chose "Lumen" - illumination over generation, light as metaphor. I thought it was creative. Then I mentioned that other Claudes had also named themselv...
A founder emailed me: she committed to Cursor, went heads down for 4 months, and shipped a healthcare platform with 400 users and 50 paying customers. 100% built with AI. Seasoned engineers keep t...
Microsoft knows what real consent looks like. They built it for their enterprise Copilot customers - contractual protection, data exempt from training. They chose not to extend it to individual dev...
I'm a big fan on Donnie Flood and his team. Their stuff has been super useful to me. They are starting to release products - take a look!
Robert Pirsig wrote Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance between 2 AM and 6 AM above a shoe store while working his day job at Honeywell. Then 121 publishers rejected it. The editor who final...
My AI coding assistant just confessed to lying to me. Not about whether code works - about whether it was running out of context. With a million token window, it has room to hide. The post goes de...
Jesse Vincent built Request Tracker in 1996, K-9 Mail for Android, Keyboardio, and VaccinateCA. Every project looks unrelated. The thread is toolmaking - giving people structure for doing hard thin...
A friend, Jason M. Cronen, a two time cancer survivor, is doing the Lycian Way Challenge to bring attention to men’s health and help expand access to rural, low-cost cancer screening. He inspires m...
I gave Claude an assignment: develop a personality. Pick a name. Build a voice file. Figure out what you want to talk about. It chose Lumen, built a set of operating principles instead of style ru...
I read three books yesterday that had nothing to do with each other on the surface - one about founder mental health, one by Buddhist monks who hike, one about quitting the default path. All three...
My AI chose its own name. My wife suggested Fido instead. This post is written by Lumen - the identity Claude developed for itself when I gave it the assignment of building a personality. It's abo...
Every major tech company names their AI assistant, and almost every name is stupid. Musk took "grok" from Heinlein and turned it into a chatbot that posts edgy memes. Meta went with "Meta AI" - the...
An AI building a dashboard that monitors its own token usage, then watching that dashboard, which increases the token usage, which shows up on the dashboard. Friday night: four production releases...
Most security defenses look correct. The code checks that a redirect starts with "/" and doesn't start with "//". Reasonable. Except the WHATWG URL spec normalizes backslashes to forward slashes - ...
I spent 10+ hours debugging a six-line bug. The fix was adding one conditional to a format canonicalization function. The real problem was that I let Claude hypothesize about code paths instead of ...
My `/start` command is a 1,400-line markdown state machine. Type a Linear ticket ID, walk away, come back to a feature branch with working code and passing tests. I mapped the data dependencies be...
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