Wondering About AI
Karen Spinner, Dr Sam Illingworth, JHong, Timo Mason\ud83e\udd20I build tools with Claude Code and other AI platforms and share exactly what works (and what flames out). Now I'm helping other vibe coders break through barriers and get their projects done.
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How to stop your CLAUDE.md file from getting too big
TL;DR: People (and the agents they delegate to) tend to keep adding rules to context files like CLAUDE.md until the files are bloated enough to cause context rot. A study by Kushal Chakrabarti of more than 1,800 GitHub repositories found th...
A mostly plain language primer on Anthropic’s new watermark and how it can be detected
TL;DR: Anthropic will embed a SynthID-family watermark in Claude’s text to comply with the EU AI Act. Models launched on or after August 2 will have it, and existing models will be retrofitted; Anthropic hasn’t said when this will happen. T...
I read Pangram 4’s technical report so you don’t have to.
Disclosure: I have no connection to Pangram Labs. Every number below comes from the company’s own technical report, which is free to read on arXiv. DM me if you want the table and section references for anything I cite. Also, I edited a dra...
Some software will always need a UI
Disclosure: I wrote a rough draft and outline of this article by hand and used Claude (the new Fable 5 model) to fix errors and fill in details from my codebase. Then I ran it through Pangram, and did one more light editing pass to achieve...
How to generate AI drafts that sound more human (a 4-step process)
Disclosure: I used Claude Fable to write the first draft of this article based on a voice profile, ran a series of automated checks, and then edited the resulting draft manually.
TL;DR: Newer AI models make it easier to generate writing th...
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AI builder with mixed feelings about AI. Agency owner (custom software, product messaging). Creator of CarouselBot, a tool that turns your posts into LinkedIn carousels.
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