Essays & notes
25 practical guides on AI-native building — agent systems, setups, and prompt systems. Written for Instagram, republished here in full.
2026-07-31 · 5 minThe 3-line CLAUDE.md
anthropic deleted over 80% of the instructions they wrote for claude code — and their coding scores came back the same. the one rule for what to cut, the three buckets to sort every line into, and the /doctor check that finds deletions for you.
2026-07-21 · 9 minOpenCodex: use multiple models inside Codex and Claude Code
a local proxy that routes your existing codex or claude code setup to gemini, groq, kimi, openrouter, or a model on your own machine — without migrating anything. the full install, a one-provider first test, and the security checklist.
2026-07-07 · 2 minLiquid Glass for the web — the free file + the skill
A free, MIT-licensed module that renders real refraction (not fake blur) for any web element, plus a Claude Code skill that applies it on command.
2026-06-18 · 4 minSpendly: the expense tracker that never leaves your Mac
How Spendly turns bank SMS alerts into a private spending dashboard that runs entirely on your Mac, with only store names and currency rates ever touching the internet.
2026-06-18 · 4 minLoop engineering: the 5 pieces that make an AI agent work while you sleep
The five building blocks — automations, worktrees, skills, sub-agents, and memory — that turn a one-off prompt into a system that runs itself.
2026-06-15 · 1 minTurn Claude into your personal tutor — the /teach skill setup
Setup notes for Matt Pocock's /teach Claude Code skill, which builds tailored interactive lessons, quizzes, and cheat sheets and remembers what you've already learned.
2026-05-23 · 4 minHow I Replaced My $40/mo ManyChat Auto-DM Setup With Meta's API
Build notes on rebuilding a single comment-to-DM workflow with Meta's Instagram Graph API, webhooks, Notion, and a Cloudflare Worker — for $0/month instead of $40.
2026-05-22 · 9 minDeveloper tools for AI builders
a devtools guide for non-engineers building with ai — inspect what the ai built, understand what's wrong, and turn that observation into a better prompt.
2026-05-18 · 3 minVoice is replacing clicks. Here's where to go deep.
A curated reading list tracking the shift from click-based UX to voice and intent-driven interaction, spanning OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, and the generative UI layer.
2026-05-12 · 4 minTab Dump — install & build guide
How to install the /tab-dump Claude Code slash command that snapshots open Chrome tabs into Notion, plus the full build brief to recreate it from scratch.
2026-05-01 · 7 minAgent Orchestration: The 3 Big Releases (Apr 2026)
Warp went open source, Cursor shipped an SDK, and OpenAI open-sourced Symphony — three releases in one week that move the unit of work from prompt to ticket.
2026-04-30 · 9 minEarth in Blender + a live website — the full guide
a real-time interactive 3D earth, modeled in blender, running live in the browser via react three fiber. built in an afternoon with two prompts — one for blender, one for claude code.
2026-04-22 · 8 minGPT Image 2.0 dropped. Here are 23 prompts that actually work.
23 copy-paste prompts for GPT Image 2.0 — three i ran myself against Nano Banana Pro, twenty more across branding, infographics, packaging, and social. plus the one thing that makes all of them better.
2026-04-20 · 9 minYour Claude has emotions. Here's how to prompt it without stressing it out.
Anthropic found 171 emotion-related patterns inside Claude — and your prompts are turning them up and down without you knowing. Five rules I actually use now, with before/after examples.
2026-04-17 · 9 minI asked Claude Opus 4.7 to build me an Awwwards-worthy landing page. Here's the prompt.
Two prompts — a high-level one and a fully locked-in master prompt — that get an editorial, ultra-modern landing page out of Claude Opus 4.7 in a single shot, plus why each works.
2026-04-10 · 7 minI gave my content agent an actual memory: mem0, honestly reviewed
every new session my agent forgot everything — so i plugged in mem0. one command, 51 memories later, here's what works, the privacy caveats, and the full setup.
2026-04-07 · 6 minBuild Your Own Karpathy Wiki — From Scratch
A self-maintaining personal knowledge base in 10 minutes: markdown files in folders, no plugins, no vector DB, no Obsidian.
2026-04-04 · 6 minBuild Your First Personal AI Agent in Claude Code
A personal assistant with Notion, Gmail, and Calendar access that remembers things across sessions — built in 20 minutes, running entirely on your machine.
2026-04-01 · 8 minHow to Integrate Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Into Your App — The Complete Guide
a no-BS guide from actually building real-time two-way voice into a production health app — every mistake, dead end, and 'aha' moment included.
2026-03-27 · 2 minWhich AI tool should you level up to?
most people are stuck at level 1 with ai — chatting. the five-level progression from chatting to building to shipping to automating to orchestrating, with the tools for each jump.
2026-03-26 · 6 minFigma MCP + Claude Code: the full setup guide
claude can now build directly inside your figma files — frames, components, variables — and generate code from your designs. here's the exact setup, the prompts that work, and the gotchas.
2026-03-23 · 1 minHow to set up Browser Use CLI (automate any browser task)
a command-line tool that controls your real chrome — logins, cookies, sessions intact — at ~50ms speed. install, connect it to claude code, and automate the boring stuff.
2026-03-19 · 3 min10 Problems You Can Solve With AI Today
ten everyday annoyances, each with a build idea and the exact start prompt. pick one. build it. that's how you start.
2026-03-19 · 3 min10 AI Skills You Can Use Right Now (Free)
ten ready-made skills — humanizer, frontend ui/ux, deep research, seo audit, and more. copy the prompt, paste it into claude code or any ai tool, instant superpowers.
2026-03-11 · 3 minClaude Skills: how to create, find, and reuse them
claude can learn any task and repeat it forever. what a skill actually is, five ways to get them, and how i built my image organizer skill from scratch.