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Productivity & Workflow
Developer productivity, workflow automation, and DevOps practices.
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If You Want an Agent Transition, Spend Time on Initial Setup
Boris Cherny's note on automation matches what I have been telling teams for weeks: the leverage is encoding judgment into infrastructure, not burning tokens on the same bug forever.
Starting Codex? Open This Guide First
I keep a living Codex Vible for install, settings, App vs Web, and how it differs from ChatGPT, because the product ships updates faster than most people can relearn it.
Claude Code Was Billing Tens of Thousands of Hidden Tokens Per Turn
Matt Pocock's method: run /context, rank tool payloads, then trim settings.json with disable flags and bare tool-name denies so unused definitions stop riding every message.
I Didn’t Need a Paid Voice App on Mac. I Built Mac Whisper
Push-to-talk on the menu bar with on-device SFSpeechRecognizer, optional LLM typo fixes only, and Bluetooth headsets that stay on A2DP. Requires macOS 26+.
Four Small Tools I Built to Make Daily Codex Less Annoying
A ChatGPT→Codex handoff bridge, multi-account config sharing via symlinks, a menu-bar status app, and an imagegen API with provider fallback.
Twelve Codex Tricks Power Users Quietly Share
ChatGPT-as-MCP planning, multi-account gateways, Excalidraw intent, imagegen fan-out, remote handoff, grill-me PRDs, kanban agents, and multi-tool control.
A Prompt That Forces Consulting-Style Slide Structure
Pick one of six structures, lock design tokens, run a 3-second test — stop getting pretty bullet dumps with no “so what.”
22 Agentic Engineering Practices I Actually Use Daily
No IDE heroics: plan.md, voice, cmux tabs, remote control, skip-permissions discipline, research-before-plan, and resting before AI psychosis.
One Prompt That Turns PDF Slides Into Editable PPTX
Native text boxes only, python-pptx footguns encoded, self-verify against the original — five for five in my tests.
Claude Code in 2026: Layers Matter More Than Tools
I installed three popular Claude Code extensions and productivity barely moved. The problem was never which tools to pick.
Claude Code Channels Changed How I Work Away From the Terminal
A month ago I couldn't leave my laptop during a build. Three features in four weeks fixed that.
The 10-Hour Skill Beats the 10-Minute Skill Every Time
I thought a single SKILL.md file was enough. Then I saw how Anthropic's own team structures theirs, and rebuilt everything.
Solo Founder, Zero Employees, $2M ARR: The Agent Stack Making It Real
Four projects shipped in the last two months show what happens when AI agents handle not just coding but earning, orchestrating, and running entire companies.
Shopify's CEO Built a Search Engine That Revives 700 Claude Code Sessions in One Second
Shopify CEO Tobias built QMD, an open-source search engine. Connect it to Claude Code and every session gets persistent memory.
Claude Code Sub-Agents Save 25x Tokens in Your Main Session
Your AI isn't getting dumber. Your main session is overloaded. Sub-agents keep it lean and accurate for over an hour.
Claude Code Just Reset Everyone's Weekly Limits to Zero — Here's What Happened
A race condition between Auto Memory and context compaction in Claude Code v2.1.59–v2.1.61 broke prompt caching and corrupted sessions. Anthropic reset all weekly limits as compensation.
Two Tools Every Claude Code User Needs - Agentation and Readout
Agentation gives AI agents pixel-perfect visual feedback via CSS selectors. Readout replays Claude Code sessions like video. Together they eliminate the two biggest friction points in AI-assisted frontend development.
I Ran a 12-Hour Agent Hackathon and Now I Understand Why Stripe Ditched localhost
After building a product with agents overnight, I finally get why Stripe Minions and Ramp Inspect both chose cloud-isolated environments over running everything locally.
7-Step Pipeline to Verify Code Written by AI Agents
When agents push 3,000 commits a day, humans can't review them all. Here's how to build a machine-verified pipeline that catches what people can't.
My Agent Called a Failed API 5 Times—The Bug Wasn't in the Code
When an agent repeats the same failing API call, code review won't help. Traces are the new source code for debugging AI agents.
5 SKILL.md Body Writing Rules Hidden in Anthropic's Docs
Five SKILL.md body writing principles buried in Anthropic's official documentation. From separating description and body roles to embedding verification loops.
Turn Your Company Into a Filesystem Before Adopting AI Agents
The real competitive edge in the agent era isn't the model - it's filesystem design. Here's how to unify your company's data into one namespace.
Hidden Tool That Cuts AI Agent Web Browsing Token Costs by 100x
Discover Actionbook's revolutionary approach to solving browser agent speed and token cost issues. Manual-based automation delivers 10x speed and 1/100th the cost.
Claude Code Agent Teams - From Setup to Shortcuts
A practical guide to Claude Code's new multi-agent teams feature: activation, keyboard shortcuts, terminal compatibility, task management, and known limitations.
OpenAI & Google's 2026 Declaration: The AI Price War Has Begun, and Now Is the Best Time to Jump In
OpenAI and Google are racing to launch affordable AI plans while Chinese competitors shatter price floors. Here's why this moment is your best entry point.
Claude Code Was for Developers - Cowork Is for Everyone
Anthropic launches Cowork, an autonomous agent that reads, edits, and creates files on your local machine. Vibe coding meets vibe working.
How the Creator of Claude Code Actually Uses Claude Code
Boris Cherny's workflow hit 5K likes in 2 hours. His setup is simpler than you'd expect - parallel sessions, plan mode, CLAUDE.md, and verification loops.
The Claude Code Setup Guide That Made Me Rethink Everything
An Anthropic hackathon winner's 10-month Claude Code configuration - context management, hooks, subagents, and the principles that actually matter.
Claude Code Skills Setup: 1 Person Doing the Work of 30
Six Claude Code skill combinations that let a small team run a full-stack business - from marketing and video to UI design and code quality.
4 Claude Code Skills That Actually Survived Out of 100K
After installing hundreds of AI coding agent skills, only 4 made it into my daily workflow. Here's what survived the weekend audit.
Claude HUD: The Plugin That Made AI Agents Observable
A game-style status bar for Claude Code that shows context usage, active tools, sub-agents, and todo progress in real time.
Context7: Use Skills and Subagents, Not Just MCP
Connecting Context7 via MCP floods your main context with docs. Skills and subagents isolate queries, keeping long coding sessions stable.
6 AI Agent Trends Established Worldwide in January 2026
Six battle-tested AI agent patterns that emerged globally in one month - from persistent loops to multi-agent orchestration.
6 Principles of AI Agent Development Established Globally in One Week
Context engineering took the world by storm in early 2026. Here are six battle-tested principles from Manus, Cursor, and Claude Code that define modern AI agent development.
10 Principles of AI Coding from the OpenClaw Creator
Peter Steinberger, who built GitHub's fastest-starred project, shares 10 hard-won principles for working with AI coding agents.
Why Claude Code Dropped Todos and Slash Commands
Anthropic replaced TodoWrite with Tasks and Slash Commands with Skills in two days. Both changes point in the same direction - unhobbling the model.
My Terminal Setup for AI Agentic Coding
How I use Ghostty, Yazi, Fish, and LazyGit to run multiple AI agents in parallel - a lightweight terminal stack built for agentic workflows.
I Cleared a Day So Automation Stopped Being a Slogan
Protected calendar blocks ship automation; talk does not.