James Sugrue

What a day! Meeting @stevewoz at @Sisense Eureka today. Such a friendly guy.

This guy literally broke down how to use Claude Code like an expert: 1:40 - Code vs Cowork vs OpenClaw 6:51 - Setting up context status line 12:03 - Sub-agents 17:49 - Creating skills 23:58 - Ask user questions tool 33:33 - Tool-powered skills: Tavily 36:57 - CLI vs MCP vs API hierarchy 39:30 - Make slides skill w/ Puppeteer 43:32 - Auto-invoking skills with hooks 46:49 - Jupyter notebooks for data trust 55:09 - The operating system file structure

The most impactful engineers I’ve worked with were rarely the most visible ones. They were the ones who made the people around them faster, clearer, less blocked. Difficult to quantify in a performance review. Very easy to overlook. It’s also what actually moves things forward.

I've been in software long enough to watch four things get declared "the future of frontend." I wrote the book on one of them — literally. Each solved real problems. Each created new ones. The survivors had one thing in common: they cared more about the problem than the stack.

Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, shared his entire setup. He runs 5-10 Claudes in parallel. Half his coding happens from his phone. Here's his 3-part formula for better results: Use the smartest model available — Counterintuitive: it's actually cheaper — Smarter model = fewer tokens = lower total cost — "Once the plan is good, the code is good" Invest in your Claude MD — Plain text file. No special format. — Whole team contributes multiple times a week — Every mistake Claude makes gets added so it never happens again Give Claude a way to verify its own output — Let it run the code. Let it see the browser. — "Imagine you're a painter wearing a blindfold" — Same thing for an AI that can never check its work His morning routine: wake up, kick off 3 sessions from his phone, check in later. His workflow: start in plan mode → lock the plan → auto-accept edits → done. No fancy setup. No complex tooling. Just multiple Claudes, a good plan, and a shared knowledge base.

Currently debugging to Jonny Greenwood's "One Battle After Another" soundtrack while Claude acts as my wingman on something I probably shouldn't attempt alone. In the absence of true drama, score your code like the fate of the sprint depends on it. Highly recommend.

Reflecting on what engineers love about Claude Code, one thing that jumps out is its customizability: hooks, plugins, LSPs, MCPs, skills, effort, custom agents, status lines, output styles, etc. Every engineer uses their tools differently. We built Claude Code from the ground up to not just have great defaults, but to also be incredibly customizable. This is a reason why developers fall in love with the product, and why Claude Code's growth continues to accelerate. I wanted to share a few ways we're seeing people and teams customize their Claudes.

🚀 Today Amplify announces a new TypeScript-based, code-first DX inspired by your feedback. Instead of using the CLI or Studio, you can provision your infrastructure in files right in your code! Let’s talk a little bit more about the new experience. 🧵

If you're looking into event-driven architectures, watch this talk from @donkersgood. Lots of great tips (10, to be exact!). Hard-won lessons from building an event-driven system @ PostNL. Also, great images 💯 youtu.be/9r9WDzzTcr0

@AkkocDiren Thank you! Sign up if you can 😀

Love the idea behind it❣️#donatecode #rebelcon #aws #rebels #fourtheorem

@igorippolitov @donatecode Thanks for the photo!

James, founder of @donatecode with the best talk of the day so far.

Finding out more about @workvivo’s culture and secrets to scaling is genuinely inspiring. Anything is possible. Andrea Graham is a natural speaker. Full of honesty, showing the road to success is not paved with gold. @RebelConf

@damienmulley Been following you for years.... I'm sure someone recommended that I do. It's always interesting! The only thing I pitch really is my side project, donatecode.com which started innocently enough, always needs more work, but it does what it needs to!

Hello people that follow me. While Twitter says 16,000+ follow me I think it's really a few 100 people and a few dozen that interact. Why don't you say hello and introduce yourself. If you have something you can pitch like a business or a cause, please do so, Thanks.

Reminder that this Thursday we have our next event with Zohaib Jabbar in @IconicOffices Cork. We'll have some drinks and food at the event too! A good way to finish up your Thursday meetup.com/corkdev-io/eve…

We’re back #riverdance

The #Amplify Studio team rewrote the Content Manager from the ground up to provide the experience that customers were asking for. Give it a try and let us know what you think! Please reach out with any feedback. I'd love to hear any ways we could continue to improve 😊

At last, CorkDev is back, and it's back with an in person event at the Republic of Work on Thursday Feb 16th, at 6:30pm. We'll be doing an AWS re:Cap event, with Matheus Guimaraes guiding us through the key announcements from re:Invent 2022. meetup.com/corkdev-io/eve…

I'm hiring software engineers for @zazzle in Cork, Ireland. Trust me, this is a job that you will love. If you're interested send me a message / catch up with me for a coffee. jobs.lever.co/zazzle/503a548…

@joelennon @seanogdev You get used to the lack of the button and the case. They’re the best headphones I’ve had. And you could wear them for hours without really noticing. Good noise cancelling for travel too

@seanogdev Wow that’s mad. Was considering the xm4s as they fold up nicer but xm5s seem to have better build quality and ANC. I refuse to pay 630 for headphones, especially when they come with a stupid case and don’t have an off button.

Attending AWS #reInvent? Don't miss the #AWSCommunity session track, led by AWS Heroes! ⭐️ Favorite in the re:Invent session guide now, & grab a seat when reserved seating launches October 11, 10AM PDT: portal.awsevents.com/events/reinven…

🚀 Introducing Amplify Learn 🚀 Full courses on how to build Amplify apps in both written and video formats! We'll be releasing new courses all month on React, Flutter, iOS, and more! Check it out! amplify.aws/learn