Seth Gammon

I've been through five distinct levels of using Claude Code. Each one felt like I'd figured it out until something broke. Here's the full progression ladder, from "fix this bug" to 198 autonomous agents. 🧵🧵

@PravTang Sure thing Prav! Ask away, and I will respond :)

@SethGammon Hey this is great and a lot of useful info for someone like me who is just getting started. Mind if I send some questions via direct message for some help?

This is why I stopped trusting agents to self-validate. A PostToolUse hook that runs typecheck on every file save catches this in seconds, not after an hour. The agent never gets to build on top of its own mistakes because the environment rejects bad output before the next step runs. The fix isn't a smarter model. It's structural enforcement that makes this failure impossible.

Just let Opus go for over an hour on a new feature. When it was done, I asked how I can test it. 20 minutes later, it realized I can't test it because it did the whole thing entirely wrong. Idk how you guys use this model every day for real work 🙃

@garrytan Love the work and digging into your repo soon. From my perspective the cross-platform skill standard is the right move. Skills as the portable unit across agents means the investment compounds regardless of which tool wins.

GStack now supports Codex, Google Gemini CLI and Cursor.

@MrDentsTowel You are not alone on that front 😅

@SethGammon 😂 all good. I don’t know if you have the same experience, but my timeline is full of bots. Hence the question.

Hey @Grok, how many people on X who talk about Claude Code or Codex, vibe coding, or how AI is slop are paid actors or bots? Seems like it’s a lot of them. Seems like a problem.

@DaveShapi @grok Chances?: Near Zero. How are people still sleeping on the direction of AI? I get outside of it to the point you're not really using it. But how do they not see how valuable it is?

@grok what's the ARR of all generative AI companies? What was the ARR of Metaverse? What are the chances that generative AI could go the way of Metaverse?

Full post and thread here: reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/c…

I wrote up the five levels I went through using Claude Code to build a 668K-line platform. From raw prompting to orchestrating 198 autonomous agents. The post hit 62K views and 112 upvotes on r/ClaudeCode today. I answered every comment in the thread.

Skills are the foundation. I took the same approach and kept building on top of it. The next unlock after skills was lifecycle hooks. A PostToolUse hook that runs per-file typecheck on every save so the agent can't introduce type errors silently. A doc drift tracker that flags when code changes outpace documentation. The agent doesn't decide whether to validate. The environment enforces it. After that: multi-agent orchestration. Parallel agents in isolated worktrees, persistent campaign files across sessions, discovery relay between waves. 40 skills, 8 hooks, 198 agents, 27 postmortems documenting every failure that shaped the system. Wrote up the full progression from raw prompting to fleet orchestration here: x.com/SethGammon/sta…

I've been having such an amazing time with Claude Code I wanted you to be able to have my *exact* skill setup: Introducing gstack, which you can install just by pasting a short piece of text into your Claude code

@giladvdn You're not wrong! 😅 That's what the 27 postmortems are for. Each one is basically "which agent did this and how do we make sure it never happens again." I didn't track just how many 'invisible' issues I had across my experiences, but infrastructure can catch those issues!

@SethGammon the 198 agents level sounds fun until something breaks and you have no idea which one did it lol

I've been through five distinct levels of using Claude Code. Each one felt like I'd figured it out until something broke. Here's the full progression ladder, from "fix this bug" to 198 autonomous agents. 🧵🧵

Full article with before/after stories at each level, shareable structures, and the CLAUDE.md audit that caught its own bloat: x.com/SethGammon/sta… @AnthropicAI @alexalbert__

I also ran a forensic audit on my own CLAUDE.md while writing this. It crept from 80 lines to 190 over three weeks. Found 40% redundancy. The promotion pipeline from CLAUDE.md to skills and rules files didn't exist. Now it does.

@DannyLimanseta The right attitude to develop

I don't care if people call it AI slop. Vibe coding games is fun. It's become my main hobby now, and no one can take that away from me.

@IRCSS Yeah! I was curious about the procedural geometry. Thank you for pointing me in the direction. Being on the outside of this type of development it genuinely looks magical.

@SethGammon You mean with this project? I saw a concept art I liked of a little village and decided to make it. as for specifically procedural geometry in blender: x.com/IRCSS/status/2…

finished another part of the cathedral. Also added a bunch of gizmos for modifying the building. I have been doing so much procedural modeling these days, it feels like the geometry just appears as I think of it. Feels nice!