Brian Casel

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@fbrill ya I do selective stuff like that too. But so much of my work touches UI that I want it always loaded, so that we never risk it missing/forgetting to adher to design system.

@CasJam Interesting, I found with a DESIGN.md, you can offload design context, then have a rule in CLAUDE.md to only invoke design when working on actual front end to not overload context unnecessary when doing other types of work - suppose it depends on the application.

Design system for the upcoming Builder Methods brand refresh. All my most commonly used elements defined and documented. Goal is make it easy for my agents to build and iterate quickly and easily, without design drift.

@fbrill I had it build out a lot of instructions in claude.md to ensure we're always using (or updating) the design system as we build.

@CasJam Nice 👌🏻 are you planning on doing a summary in a DESIGN.md, or how do you plan on getting agents to follow the guide?

@mikemcalister I use the option to hold the key down while talking, release to stop, think make edits, etc.

Is there a voice-to-text that can stay locked on an input no matter where I am on screen? For example, I want to be able to hit a keyboard shortcut, start talking, and when I’m done it gets pasted into Claude Code and sent automatically.

@charlieholtz This could win me back :) Just needs: - "working" animation icon on the workflow tab when cli is working. - sound when cli is done or waiting.

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I'd love an AI tool for building design inspiration collections. Does this exist? 1. I say what I'm design (marketing page, UI, hero, whatever) 2. AI surfaces some interesting inspiration examples found in the wild (not generated) 3. I select the ones I like and note what I like about them. 4. It gives me a package of examples + notes I can feed to my agent of choice (claude, codex, stitch whatever).

@jasondoesstuff I still think prompting changes in Claude Code is faster than the bloat and limitations of a CMS. Referencing existing design patterns in the prompt helps.

Looking for a genuinely great AI-powered landing page builder with fast editing. It's easy to 1-shot a great page design, but the second you want to change text, images, add content blocks, doing that all in AI chat feels slow somehow. What app is doing this REALLY well? 🤔

@0xVikk The steps are just instructions, not state.

@CasJam extracted steps are great until you need to version them across agents. how do you handle when "each step is swappable" breaks a shared state contract?

Refactor agent Skills like you refactor code. I try to avoid cramming long, complex processes into one SKILL.md. Better to extract each step out to its own markdown file, referenced from the main skill. Each step is swappable. Debugging & maintaining a lot easier. Agent parses it easily.

@MatthewTse_ It really happened. I actually didn't realize it until airline called me to let me know they have it!

@CasJam Honestly unsure if you're being sarcastic But this would stress me out 100x more not knowing if I'd actually get my MacBook back on the return flight.

Pro tip (I learned this week): Leave your MacBook on the flight to your beach vacation. Get it from the lost and found when boarding your return flight.

@selfdrivenpower I built a version of this in the new course launching next week!

@CasJam URL to markdown bookmarker tool

What's an internal tool you've been wanting to build for yourself but haven't yet?

@grantkantsios This is STILL on my to-build list!

@CasJam Something similar to sunrise that you were building. We have multiple stripe profiles and use quickbooks for larger invoices. Would be nice to have one dashboard to check the company health daily (if I wanted)

@mikemcalister It's the ultimate rabbit hole.

@CasJam Second brain.

@mattmedeiros Less stress this way :)

@CasJam Just when you thought you'd be stress free ;)

@philipbrown Occasionally I do extract a step out to its own Skill, especially if multiple different Skills need to do that same step. Better to keep it DRY!

@CasJam do you split them into individual skills and then compose them together in a meta skill?

@brunotorious Sure is

@CasJam Huh. Sounds almost like ... programming.

@michaelkoper @marckohlbrugge @nikitabier Thanks! One of my agent's daily tasks is to watch several Twitter accounts, pick the most relevant updates wrote and send me a morning report.

@marckohlbrugge @nikitabier @CasJam Not daily, but do you really want daily tho? that seems like a lot of information you really want to forget eventually (like tomorrow)

There’s so much happening in AI everyday. How to keep up? Is there a good daily digest or YouTube channel covering it all? Feels like this could be an X feature somehow @nikitabier

@colinmcgray Not yet, been thinking about setting up a page like that. But I have them all on my iPhone home screen.

@CasJam How do you like to keep them organised, Brian? Do you have a dashboard where you can access them all?

When building internal tools with AI, the temptation is to build a monolith that does everything. I prefer a stack of purpose-built tools, each powers one process in my business. Me (manager) + My agents (workers) + Our app (shared UI) = ✅