Phil Strong

Just shipped Jacked. It's an AI strength coach for iPhone. Type "10 x 140" between sets — it logs the rep, compares to your last session, tells you what to do Most fitness apps log your workouts. This one actually coaches them. Free 7-day trial: jackedapp.ai

Been using code.claude.com/docs/en/fullsc… with cmux/ghostty and I'm a fan. type /tui fullscreen to switch and /tui default to switch back to standard. @claudeai

The "MCP is dead, use SDKs + CLIs" take is right for full coding agents. But heard a reframe recently that clicked: MCP is a scope-down. An agent with bash and an SDK can do anything. An agent with an MCP server can only do what you exposed.

Stack: React Native, AWS Bedrock (Claude Haiku 4.5). Built solo over ~60 days, 1000 commits. Happy to answer questions.

Just shipped Jacked. It's an AI strength coach for iPhone. Type "10 x 140" between sets — it logs the rep, compares to your last session, tells you what to do Most fitness apps log your workouts. This one actually coaches them. Free 7-day trial: jackedapp.ai

@unclebobmartin Bob for President!

Morning Bathrobe Rant: AI out-codes you; deal with it.

Anyone know of good AI marketing plugins (prompts, skills, etc) for @claudeai code? Looking to improve copy for onboarding and website/app

Anyone know of an agent/skills package manager? Should work with popular coding agents (Claude, Codex, Kirk) I see this as being imperative for teams to reach level 2 AI fluency … whatever that means :)

@Delia__Gabriela Ideals and theory are a great lens to approach problems. Our tribal brains want to pick a side rather than see many sides.

Thank you for your response, which I appreciate because it touches on a crucial point about power and human nature. What you say is absolutely true: centralizing power in the hands of a government or an elite, especially career politicians who have no direct connection to the people they govern, inevitably leads to abuses and corruption. In historical communist regimes, such as those of Stalin, Mao, or Kim Il-sung, this manifested in extreme forms: a single party that controlled every aspect of the state, the economy, and social life, with repression through political police, labor camps, and massive propaganda. The theoretical "dictatorship of the proletariat," intended by Marx as a transitional phase toward a classless society, transformed into permanent totalitarian states, where the State did not wither away but dominated everything, justifying oppressions in the name of ideology. In my original post, I wanted precisely to distinguish between the theoretical ideal of communism—an aspiration to justice, equality, and voluntary cooperation, inspired also by Christian principles like those of the first apostolic community—and its practical realization, distorted by human errors, authoritarianism, and deviated interpretations. You're right to say that perhaps at an ecclesiastical level, in small communities based on personal relationships and shared faith, something similar could work; however, I have doubts about this too, because the history of the Church itself shows how, when power becomes institutionalized and drifts away from voluntary and spiritual foundations, it can lead to rigid hierarchies, abuses, and deviations from the original ideal.I certainly do not advocate a return to those failed systems, but I believe that reflecting on these complexities helps us learn from history and seek better paths for social equity, without falling into extremes.

If you want to meet people who have a generational hatred of communism, travel to Eastern Europe.

@Delia__Gabriela @TheAliceSmith It removes power from the people and gives it to the government. Humans misbehave with that level of power especially ones that have never earned a paycheck - career politicians. What works at the church level doesn’t when leaders don’t have a relationship with those they lead.

Even though I come from a former communist country in Eastern Europe, where communism manifested itself as an oppressive dictatorship, I would like to clarify that I was just a child at the time and probably didn't fully understand the complexity of the situation. All in all, from my point of view, communism is a noble ideal that failed to be realized in practice not because it is inherently wrong – on the contrary, its principles of justice, cooperation, and equality remain valid as an aspiration to overcome the inequalities of capitalism – but because we humans, with our errors, limitations, and distorted interpretations (like Stalinism), have twisted and betrayed it. I believe that Jesus was the first on Earth to perfectly embody this ideal, through his message of love, brotherhood, and voluntary sharing of goods, as described in the first apostolic community in the Acts of the Apostles. It wasn't a state political ideology, but an example of primitive "Christian communism" based on generosity of the heart, not on forced planning.

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Proud of the AWS Transform Custom team. It was cool to see AWS create a literal explosion for an agentic product we built in just 7 months!

@rajuvamsi007 @farzyness We don’t know b/c we can’t see or comprehend. Perhaps it was the start of a cycle or when the simulation started ;)

@farzyness What was there before the "Big Bang?

Give me a very deep/complex question you've always wanted answered. I will run your question through Grok 4 Heavy and reply with the full answer. I will answer as many as I can. Go.

@shreyas Middle manager: "Trust but verify" :P

Middle managers in big companies

@gunsnrosesgirl3 Warcraft III for sure

For those who used a computer between 1995 and 2001, what's the computer game from that time that sticks with you the most, and why?

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@emilykmay Your dad is very smart and super lucky to have a friend group he can count on and shows up for each other each week. It’s not about the basketball I’m betting.

my dad is fifty-eight years old and has been playing basketball with the same 10-15 guys every wednesday morning since 2001 and in the last year they've had a broken rib, a broken hand, a torn bicep, and today my dad has a black eye. he works in finance.

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