Brian Carter

@NVMBR613 I wish that worked for me. In complex systems across servers, I need specific topology and guardrails, or Claude breaks everything.

@briancarter that's actually the part i stopped fighting after month 1. it approaches problems differently than i would - sometimes faster, sometimes i have to course correct but honestly it's taught me to let go of the exact path and just land on the right outcome

IronFrame – Governance layer that makes LLMs behave #home" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ironframe.org/#home I built an open-source governance layer for Claude Code after it quietly decommissioned my production droplet.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, threat model, or regulated deployments.

-- Site + FAQ: ironframe.org pip install ironframe -- EU AI Act full-application deadline is Aug 2, 2026 — that's the forcing function for the compliance tier.

-- Apache 2.0 core: Hook Engine, Model Abstraction Layer, Self-Audit Engine, Budget Manager, State Machine, 141 tests. -- Repo: github.com/briancarter456…

That's the failure mode IronFrame exists to prevent. Enforcement hooks that fire outside the model's context window — the model can't reason around them because it never sees them.

Four days later I caught it — production infrastructure in an undefined state, all systems on stale data. I was in an active trading session and the Iran war was torpedoing my trades.

The breaking point: I asked Claude to mirror my remote droplet's stock price history cache to my PC. It assumed I wanted the droplet decommissioned. Started moving cron jobs, deactivating them on the droplet.

@RohOnChain Want to prove you're a serious Claude Coder? Tell me how many hooks you have.

This 2 hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT & Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers. Bookmark this & give 2 hours today, no matter what. It'll be the most productive thing you do this week.

Want to prove you're a serious Claude Coder? Tell me how many hooks you have.

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—- this works iteratively, but iterative work without the other model is so frustrating.

The pattern for all my successful AI coding builds is: I talk to Perplexity deep research about the project It creates prompts and info and designs for Claude Claude creates a plan Perplexity DR reviews and modifies it Claude codes Perplexity creates tests Claude tests it. 1/2

I think i founr @beck’s origin story open.spotify.com/track/6SEMWLEA…

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@thedeepflux OMG tip of the iceberg. Scoring in terms of making sure it followed process and did everything? For sure. But even skills, state files, and hooks aren't enough!

@briancarter not gonna lie, that 1/2 about project management holds. the challenge isn't the API, it's defining the problem clearly enough for claude to solve. then scoring its output. that's the real skill shift.

If you want to survive AI, use Claude CODE. Don’t be mediocre and just use the web versions of AI. Stand out from the pack. Yes, Claude code is intimidating if you’re not a programmer. Yes, it was for me as well until I decided to “get over it”. 1/2

This is the kind of thing that #AI could misinterpret in a very bad way for all of us. #imnotgettingolderimgettingbetter

How many hooks do you have in your claude code system? I have 50, and probably need 50 more.