Max Werner

Question to all Claude Code users: how are you spending the 5-10 minutes of Claude working? Switching between projects? Getting another cup of tea? Something completely different?

@robertwiblin Me at every party I go to; or thinking about how they‘d get more value out of a @BlueDotImpact course :D

First time doing a real project with Claude Code - fucking amazing!

@big_duca Maybe we‘ll see programming become more „art“, like painting. Thinking of the portrait painters who suddenly saw their art displaced by photography. But people still paint portraits today; just with different purpose

I am not sure if other developers feel like this. But I feel kinda depressed. Like everyone else, I have been using Claude code (for a while, it’s not a recent thing lol). And it’s incredible. I have never found coding more fun. The stuff you can do and the speed you can do it at now. Is absolutely insane. And I’m using it to ship a lot. And solve customer problems faster. So all around it’s a win. But at the same time. The skill I spent 10,000s of hours getting good at. Programming. The thing I spent most of my life getting good at. Is becoming a full commodity extremely quickly. As much fun as it is. And as much as I like using the tools. There’s something disheartening about the thing you spent most of your life getting good at. Now being mostly useless.

Starting into the new year with style. Will definitely need some Black Art to achieve my goals in 2026. #whisky #NewYear2026

Taking a productivity break for the last two weeks of the year - really hard to unlearn thinking "how productively am I using my time?" when thinking about my day.

The best thing about @elonmusk is that he makes me question if I’m thinking big enough with my life.

- James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State About land/property practices, but I kind of feel this holds for most laws/regulations. We‘ve been seeing a lot of it here in Europe

„And even if the practices could be codified, the resulting code would necessarily sacrifice much of their plasticity and subtle adaptability. The circumstances that might provoke a new adaptation are too numerous to foresee, let alone specify, in a regulatory code.“

100 pages into Gödel, Escher, Bach now; super interesting! Why isn‘t stuff like this a normal part of the curriculum in university-level education?

@nikunj Would love to, just need to get to SF first

VC (me): How can I help? 6 founders this week: Get me a full-stack engineer with limitless potential (& energy) Checks my pipeline.. (sweating) SO! If you are a full-stack engineer in SF and wants to work with A+ founders, I'd love to buy you lunch or coffee. DMs are open!

@EsotericCofe On it!

everyone is building AI tools to replace devs and coders how about we finally build AI tools to replace managers and CEOs

„The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.“ - Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class

„Happiness is not the most important thing in the world to me. I would not become all that I could be, […]. I would sacrifice my potential.“ - Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres

When I discussed quitting Google to do a Phd, my manager, Steve Cheng, gave me the advice of "6 shots": Doing something meaningful usually takes about 5 years and we are productive for roughly 30 years. That gives you 6 attempts. So pick each one carefully and give it your best.

THIS IS EVERYTHING. BOOKMARK THIS. IMMEDIATELY.

The greatest muscle you can build: Speed. If next quarter becomes next month, next month is next week, and next week is tomorrow, you will make more money. Business rewards urgency.

@Wilson00000009 @vibagor44145276 @battleangelviv My guess would be that FIXING the bug wasn‘t what took to long. Actually recognising that there was a bug to be fixed usually takes a lot longer

never deleting this app