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Ion Alpha
@ionalpha_
Dev for 20yr. Building a unified AI-native system for creators. Research, dev, and distribution in one place. Local-first. Own forever. Stealth for a while :)
Katılım Haziran 2022
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@jjpcodes Thankfully the SDK is fine for custom UIs, systems and harnesses on top (not circumventing CC).. for now. You can build alternatives to cowork desktop that go far beyond, question is will they start shutting down or restricting those use cases. Provider agnostic is the only way.
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i love how anthropic is restricting use of your claude sub in alternative harnesses like pi, whilst their own harnesses are completely fucking broken to the point of being unusable.
in claude cowork desktop, at least 50% of my sessions hit showstopper bugs that irreversibly break the convo and require a restart. 100% of sessions have ui/ux bugs. this is just for reading and editing text files.
it's such a piece of shit compared to everything else on the market and they force you to use it. shameful.
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@doodlestein @yacineMTB ..and add as a skill or command. I frequently run a /quality command to keep claude in check.
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You can get Claude to reliably clean up its own messes if you just repeat this prompt 3 to 5 times after it writes some code for you (I do this hundreds of times a day):
Great, now I want you to carefully read over all of the new code you just wrote and other existing code you just modified with "fresh eyes" looking super carefully for any obvious bugs, errors, problems, issues, confusion, etc. Carefully fix anything you uncover.
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after using codex again, the amount of bugs its finding left behind claude are astounding. it's literally because it lied to me. it actually just didn't follow instructions in a seaky way trying to trick me. what the fuck
like actually. i am a hawk. it still snuck shit in
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It uses CDP. Playwright connects to Chrome DevTools Protocol via Electron.
"Direct system integration" refers to what Electron provides beyond CDP: window management, file system access, screen recording, clipboard, password vault with project-level isolation, multiple isolated browser contexts. CDP is sandboxed to the browser, Electron bridges to the OS.
The accessibility snapshot is an abstraction layer on top. Instead of CSS selectors or XPath, it generates short refs like e5, e23 for interactive elements. AI says "click ref e5", more reliable since selectors break when DOM changes.
Stack: Claude → MCP HTTP → Go backend → WebSocket → Electron → Playwright/CDP → Browser
Not replacing CDP, it's CDP + Electron system APIs + an AI-friendly ref system for DOM interaction.
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Rough example of Claude Code controlling the embedded browser. This is a big advantage over browser extensions as this is directly integrated with the rest of the system.
Uses simplified annotated DOM to avoid dumping loads of context into the AI for decisions.
Just a POC.
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@DennisonBertram @iannuttall @flaviocopes Yep! :D it's a nightmare. Thankfully, AI can help a great deal with it. Still takes a decent amount of time and iteration to get it right.
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@ionalpha_ @iannuttall @flaviocopes Isn't a lot of regex, etc... to capture all the modes and features?
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@DennisonBertram @iannuttall @flaviocopes Yeh it works very well at the moment with pre-warmed sessions in interactive mode. It's just piping stuff back and forth, I think it's about reducing that gap as much as possible.
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@ionalpha_ @iannuttall @flaviocopes Did you get it to feel somewhat responsive? I found it prohibitively slow.
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@DennisonBertram @iannuttall @flaviocopes It takes a lot of work on top! They may even be pre-warming sessions for responsiveness. Here's a quick overview of what I had to do.
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@iannuttall @flaviocopes I’ve tried doing that myself and it’s so incredibly slow, I wonder how they make the experience so nice.
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@ThePrimeagen Predatory? The whole point of their subscription is you get tokens at a much cheaper rate. If you then extract the API key to circumvent that.. what do you expect?
It's not predatory at all, it's clear and expected and in their ToS.
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if this really is predatory by claude, what a colossus fuck up
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@0xidanlevin I have non-tech friends who are building apps with Claude Code in the CLI. They have no idea what they're doing.. but they are producing "working" software that their friends and family use.
Claude Desktop is getting better. I reckon it'll happen sooner than you think.
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The state of AI right now:
There’s a huge gap between what developers on the frontier are using - Claude Code, Opus 4.5 - and what the rest of the world is doing, which is still figuring out the most basic ChatGPT usage.
This gap will take years to close. The average person will only start using the kinds of things developers are doing today with Claude Code - autonomous, complex tasks - years from now.
2026-27 for most of the world will be about making simple tasks work on AI platforms like ChatGPT.
Commerce, embedding apps into it, adding basic UX elements. Using it for your medical data. Learning when you can trust it, and how much.
Simple interactions, at scale.
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@SparkEros @0xPaulius Yep. While everyone is scrambling to build, instead build the systems to help you build value quickly.
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@0xPaulius Solo founders move fast, but the ceiling shows up when decisions and edge cases multiply. The quiet advantage shifts to whoever can turn speed into repeatable systems.
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my prediction for 2026:
Solo founders will win - u have all you need with Claude to copy/defeat ANY saas/app
creators will win and bring organic distribution to produced. get paid tons by founders
the golden age of the digital society powered by the singularity
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@BenjaminDEKR I agree, it's not conventional, IDEs will evolve to become that. I doubt people are going to dump all of their IDEs rather than see them augmented (which is already happening, as per Cursor).
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@ionalpha_ It won't look like a conventional IDE and this becomes a totally different thing
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"def won't be an ide"
yep
Mckay Wrigley@mckaywrigley
@mntruell seems clear that in <6 months someone will create the winning "coding agent dashboard" that'll become the new go-to interface for coding (def won't be an ide). given the talent you've assembled, it seems that the cursor of "coding agent dashboards" could/should just be cursor.
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@ifOnlyKantala @adxtyahq 100%! I've done it for 8 years on $75/hr and even that is cheap. $30/hr you are throwing money away.
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@adxtyahq Charge 100$/hour
Work for 10 hour/week
100k$/year
☝️☝️☝️☝️
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@gregisenberg It is. Name another time in our history we have had the ability to automate the instructions we give to computers on a mass scale. We've never had this level automation at our fingertips.
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2026 feels like a generational lock in moment
daily exposure to AI tools is probably the single greatest thing you can do now: launch 7 apps in a year, double down on 1, become a weapon at your job, get promoted, find freedom, life changed
right now matters so much
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@bensima @championswimmer It's too vague. Doesn't specify the composition of those 10M lines. Big difference in 10M lines of spaghetti and a properly architected system. That directly affects how useful AI is when working on it.
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@championswimmer What is a 10M LoC code base if not a collection of lots of little side projects?
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No. You have to realise that Claude Code's effectiveness on Christmas break side projects and on 10M LoC codebase at work is orders of magnitude different, and that's the only explanation.
Grummz@Grummz
Claude opus 4 .5 has been around for months, it hasn’t changed. But in the past 2 weeks, rafts of coders, some very experienced, are suddenly claiming that coding is solved. Is this a form of AI psychosis? Where the belief that Opus 4.5 is a miracle coder is being reinforced, not just by the AI, but by numerous social media confirmations by other coders who may also be falling into AI psychosis? To me, that this recent tend is erupting so suddenly, when we’ve had Opus 4.5 for months, is interesting and potentially a red flag. As for my own experiments with 4.5 and other models, AI in coding can be very amazing and useful, but I still have to be the architect, and it still blows up and fails a lot. Psychosis can be induced by multiple people each confirming each others beliefs. This is how tribal bubbles work, and how hype gets generated by marketing and social trends. It’s worth noting that and thinking through it.
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@poiThePoi @matthew_meadows @KevinNaughtonJr Yeh, that, too! Businesses must be laughing to the bank right now. Exponentially more value from all of their employees at a fraction of the time, for no extra cost. THEN more powerful AI that can outright replace people while business maintain ownership of what was built.
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@ionalpha_ @matthew_meadows @KevinNaughtonJr We're also expected to spend tens of thousands a year on our own tokens.
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now that engineers are 10x more productive with AI i wonder if companies will be chill with people working at multiple companies simultaneously
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@matthew_meadows @KevinNaughtonJr ...with no raise, don't forget! It's incredible how quickly the value of the work we used to do has dropped.
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@KevinNaughtonJr That would be "no". I use AI extensively at work in my enterprise programming job, but that job keeps me busy 50+ hours a week. Using AI raises the expectations for developer productivity accordingly.
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@damianplayer @theishshogun Dog eat dog. You are ahead today, not tomorrow. Don't slip! :D the market is about to be flooded with desperate, highly competent devs/tech with AI at their fingertips.
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AI won’t replace companies. it’ll gut entire departments by 40%.
only specialists and operators survive. builders and decision makers. that’s it. everyone else is an expense waiting to be cut.
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It's software architecture. If you don't design it well what you build on top will inevitably become unmaintainable (if not refactored).
That's why you want to push for stuff like modular design. That helps to contain complexity and scale your system almost indefinitely if done right.
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Cursor CEO has said that vibe coding builds ‘shaky foundations’ and eventually ‘things start to crumble,' per FORTUNE
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@arvidkahl I find Nintendo have managed to capture this magic over the years. I'd do anything to go back to first playing Zelda or Doom.
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All I want from gaming is that feeling I had when I unboxed Lufia 2 one Christmas morning at age twelve and got playing on my SNES right away.
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