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do you have an interesting yet simple idea that you can't get claude code / codex to build? if so, I want to hear it or see a sketch, and then try building a decent start for you. I need little distractions when I'm tired of working on my...

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Three skills I use every day in Claude Code and Codex to solve my hardest problems: 1️⃣ /agent-watchdog When I have one agent like Codex working on a task and I don't fully trust it's going to do everything right, I'll open up another one like Claude Code and tell it to watchdog the Codex thread. You can copy the Codex deep link into Claude Code and it'll look at the prompt you sent, watch the Codex thread until it's done, then compare the Codex solution to how it was planning to solve it and automatically fix anything that Codex missed. It can also test the work of the other agent end-to-end. Similar to the idea of OpenRouter's new Fusion feature, I've definitely found that two models thinking through a problem and checking each other's work can be wildly more impactful than just one. 2️⃣ /plan-arbiter Similar ideas as /agent-watchdog - but with this one you have both make plans, compare plans, negotiate the differences, and make a final plan to execute. I find Claude Code is better at writing plans, but Codex is faster and cheaper to execute on them. Then I usually have Claude Code watchdog the Codex work and fix anything that was missed. 3️⃣ /read-the-damn-docs One thing that drives me crazy with coding agents is they're so reluctant to look up docs. They'll just guess and guess and guess at the right API surface for things, or the right solution to an integration of two things. Once I explicitly tell it to look up the docs, it says "Oh, I see the answer," and it fixes the problem. So I made the /read-the-damn-docs skill. Add it and your agents will know when and how to do efficient web searches to look up docs for the types of problems you really should look up docs for. All of these are totally open source over on my GitHub. If you try them, let me know your feedback. Will link to them below:

Steve (Builder.io)

35,213 views • 11 days ago

anthropic's head of product just revealed how they're able to ship faster than any other AI company. their secret: "side quest maxxing." here's how it works: instead of long-term roadmaps, anthropic runs on unplanned afternoon experiments. anyone on the team gets full freedom to spend an afternoon prototyping an idea and show it to the team. you get to skip the approval process entirely. then, employees at anthropic try it. if they keep using it the next day and the day after that, it gets polished into a real feature. if nobody touches it again, it dies. that's the whole process. claude code on desktop started as one engineer's afternoon project. he wanted it to work on desktop so he built a prototype. people on the team started using it immediately. so they shipped it. the todo list feature started the same way. someone built it, the team adopted it internally, and it became one of the most-used parts of the product. plugins started when one engineer shared a spec with claude code and the prototype that came back was close to production-ready. went from idea to working feature in a single session. they also killed standup meetings. instead of telling people what you're working on, you just show a working demo. all walk no talk basically the team structure makes this possible. > designers ship code. > engineers make product decisions. > product managers build prototypes. everyone can take an idea from concept to working demo without waiting on anyone else. the biggest features at a $380b company came from afternoon experiments that nobody asked for. honestly this matches my own experience cooking with ai. some of the best workflows i use every day came from just fucking around. opening a session with zero intention and asking claude what it can do, or jamming on a random idea to see where it goes. if you're only using ai for tasks you already have in mind, you're missing the best part. open a session with no agenda. ask it to surprise you. try building something stupid. half the time it goes nowhere. the other half it becomes the thing you use most. you need to be sidequestmaxxing.

Ole Lehmann

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Pi was built when there were already agent harnesses around. Here’s why Mario Zechner(Mario Zechner), found them suboptimal and built Pi, a minimalist self-modifying agent: #1 - Mario initially was a believer in Claude Code: "I was a believer in Claude code because they were the first that packaged agentic search up in a really compelling package. And at the time that fit my workflow really well. Everything around the LLM was kind of nice and tidy and easy to understand. I was super happy. I was proselytising Claude code." #2 - Reverse engineering Claude Code highlighted the degradation that Mario felt as a user: "I personally like simple tools that are stable and that I can rely on. Even if they have non-deterministic parts, all the deterministic parts should be as stable as possible. That was just not the experience with Claude Code around summer 2025. They would take away your control of the context. They would inject stuff behind your back, which is bad. Then, your workflows stopped working because there's now a system reminder that you don't even see in the UI that would modify the behaviour of the model. They would also do this to the system prompt. I built a little service where I can track the progression or evolution of the system, prompt and tool definitions and, with every release, it was messing with stuff. That just messed with my workflows and I don't appreciate that." #3 - PI was built with an appreciation for simple and reliable tools: "If I commit to a development tool, I want it to be a stable, reliable thing like a hammer. I don't want my hammer to break a different spot every day. That's terrible. We need somebody who goes the full velocity kind of way. But I don't want to work with a tool like that."

The Pragmatic Engineer

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