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Try running `/insights` with Claude Code.

There is no such command, according to the docs [0]. /s

I continue to find it painfully ironic that the Claude Code team is unable to leverage their deep expertise and unlimited token budget to keep the docs even close to up-to-date automatically. Either that or they have decided accurate docs aren't important.

[0] https://code.claude.com/docs/en/interactive-mode#built-in-co...


I think the rationale is that with the right tools you can move much faster, and not burn everything to the ground, than just rawdogging Claude. If you haven't bothered setting up extra tools you may still be faster / better than old you, but not better than the you that could be. I'm not preaching, that's just the idea.

> That is not software engineering or development, it's brogrammer trash.

Yes, but it's working. I'm still reading the code and calling out specific issues to Claude, but it's less and less.


You're reading it though, and I imagine you are applying comprehension to it based on your experience. It's not vibe-coding any more at that point, I'd call it rapid application development. That's what Rails did in, what, 2010? Maybe earlier? Except it was generated scaffolding code created through reflection and not machine learning.

It's when you take yourself out of the loop and trust the process that it goes in the wrong direction.


I think it also presumes that the skills of today won't be helpful in making you better, faster, stronger at knowing what to learn tomorrow. Skateboarding ain't snowboarding but I guarantee the experience helps.

Yeah but neither makes a difference to taking a taxi.

And your skills at catching a cab don't matter for booking a self driving car online.


And how are you using it now? Have you seen real value weeks or months on?

It's in active development in my free time. I've built various agent orchestration systems over the years for different reasons, ever since the GPT-3 API. I can tell you utility has continually risen, the models are just getting better, and late 2025 was an inflection point, which is why we're seeing all of these orchestration solutions pop up now.

I still have kinks to work out in mine but it's already usable for building software. Once I get to v1 I think it will provide enough value to be useful for me in particular. I don't have enough data to speak about months on yet, but if I think the experiment is a success then I will do a Show HN or something.

The gist is you can clone a repo or start a project from scratch, each engineering agent gets a worktree, you work with the manager agent and it dispatches and manages other agents. there are playbooks which agents contextually turn into specific tasks, each of which is tracked much like CI/CD. You can see all the tool calls, and all of the communication between both agents and humans.

The application model is ticket-based. Everything revolves around the all-holy ticket. It's like a prompt, but it becomes a foundation for tying together every bit of work related to the process of developing the feature. So you can see the progress of the ticket through the organization kanban style, or watch from a dashboard, or look at specific tickets.

There are multiple review steps where human review and intervention are required. Agents are able to escalate to humans whenever they think they need to. There is a permission system, where agents have to seek permissions from other agents or humans in a chain of command in order to do certain tasks. Everything is audited and memoized, allowing for extreme accountability and process refinement stages.

Additionally, every agent "belongs" to either another agent or a human, so there is always a human somewhere in the chain of command who is responsible and accountable for the actions of his agent team. This team includes the manager agent, engineering agents, test agents, QA agents, etc, each loaded with different context, motivations and tools to keep them on track and attempt to minimize the common failure modes I experience while working closely with these tools all day.


This is what we're working on at Speedscale. Our methods use traffic capture and replay to validate what worked before still works today.

Perhaps if he was able to get Claude Code to do what he wanted in less time, and with a better experience, then maybe that's not a skill he (or the rest of us) want to develop.

Talking LLMs off a ledge is a skill we will all need going forward.

still a skill issue, not a codex issue. sure, this line of critique is also one levied by tech bros who want to transfer your company's balance sheet from salaries to ai-SaaS(-ery), but in what world does that automatically make the tech fraudulent or even deficient? and since when is not wanting to develop a skill a reasonable substitute for anything? if my doctor decided they didn't want to keep up on medical advances, i would find a different doctor. but yet somehow finding fault with an ai because it can't read your mind and, in response to that adversity, refusing to introspect at all about why that might be and blaming it on the technology is a reasonable critique? somehow we have magically discovered a technology to manufacture cognition from nothing more than the intricate weaving of silicon, dopants, et al., and the takeaway is that it sucks because it is too slow, doesn't get everything exactly right, etc.? and the craziest part is that the more time you spend with it, the better intuition you get for getting whatever it is you want out of it. but, yeah... let's lend even more of an ear to the head-in-sand crowd-- that's where the real thought leaders are. you don't have to be an ai techno-utopian maximalist to see the profound worthiness and promise of the technology; these things are manifestly self-evident.

Sure, that's fine. I wrote my comment for the people who don't get angry at an AI agents after using them for the first time within five hours of their release. For those who aren't interested in portending doom for OpenAI. (I have elaborate setups for Codex/Claude btw, there's no fanboying in this space.)

Some things aren't common sense yet so I'm trying my part to make them so.


common sense has the misfortune of being less "common" than we would all like it to be. because some breathless hucksters are overpromising and underdelivering in the present, we may as well throw out the baby, the bath water, and the bath tub itself! who even wants computers to think like humans and automate jobs that no human would want to do? don't you appreciate the self-worth that comes from menial labor? i don't even get why we use tractors to farm when we have perfectly good beasts of burden to do the same labor!

Feelings are information with just as much, or more, value as biased intellectualizing.

Ask Linus Torvalds.


i have absolutely no idea whatsoever what this means

Getting an old codebase working is something they are especially good at because it has regular, actionable feedback and it's clear when the tall is complete. Creating the "best" anything is much more open ended.


I'm surprised there was no mention of shorts which take attention away from long form content. It's all they a pushing these days. In my feed I regularly see 6 shorts, then a video, then 6 more shorts. TikTok is not the ideal model for everyone.


If you're on a web browser, there are extensions that hide them (for now). That and members only and such.

Soon, assuming my setup continues to work, my youtube experience will be completely unlike the default: no shorts, no autoplay, no ads, no sidebar recommendations, homepage is subscriptions, no premium.

I'm bleeding them dry!


May I recommend de-arrow and sponsorblock as well?


https://unhook.app/ - removes the addiction from the tube

(i'm not affiliated except as a user)


I've seen it many times. And then every task takes longer than the last one, which is what pushes teams to start rewrites. "There's never enough time to do it right, but always time to do it again."


Na. Consenting adults and all that.


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