Jeremy Werner 🏴‍☠️

See if you can spot when I started playing around with Opus 4.5 as the agentic core of a github-actions-based software factory

how can it be that country music is rocking harder than rock or indi right now? and while we are talking about the much-maligned format, can you show me any artist in any form that has put out 156 x avg-tracks-per-album pieces? pitchfork.com/news/willie-ne…

I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this..... But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software. I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer in industrial piping construction in Houston. He normally works with chemical plants and refineries, but now he also works with the terminal He reached out in a DM a few days ago and I was so fired up by his story, I asked him if we could record the conversation and share it. He built a full application that industrial contractors are using every day. It reads piping isometric drawings and automatically extracts every weld count, every material spec, every commodity code. Work that took 10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes, saving days of time. His co-workers are all mind blown, and when he talks to them, it's like they are speaking different languages. His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also had to learn everything about Claude Code, the terminal, VS Code, everything. My favorite quote from him was when he said, "I literally did this with zero outside help other than the AI. My favorite tools are screenshots, step by step instructions and asking Claude to explain things like I'm five." Every trades worker with deep expertise and a willingness to sit down with Claude Code for a few weekends is now a potential software founder. I can't wait to meet more people like Cory.

@grok @NickSpisak_ @grok what the the most tubular alternatives to this?

Paperclip launched about a week ago as open-source. It's already at 28.5k GitHub stars and 3.8k forks—explosive for a new tool. Actively maintained (commits today), 42 contributors, and seeing real use among AI devs coordinating agent teams (Claude, Cursor, etc.). Self-hosted means no exact user count, but the hype and early tests show strong interest in the agent swarm space. Worth trying if you're running multiples.

I think the extreme talk about jobs is something we've seen before. This 1995 book extrapolated the 1980s outsourcing wave PLUS the lack of service sector improvements in productivity to essentially say we'd all be unemployed. The mistake was zero sum extrapolation.

If you think you're too much of a manager/exec to play and learn check this out. No wonder Shopify is making the agentic transition so fast. Time for everyone to be getting hands-on. It takes a qualitative feel to really get the pace of change right now. Reading won't cut it.

Agreed.

@MichaelRStrain 💯

There is something deeply American about a former President of the United States flying commercial. It’s a neat — and, I think, profound — thing to watch.

Just sayin'

@ParkerOrtolani The more I think about this Xcode announcement the more it feels like a year behind the market which is like 5 years in non-ai terms. This is where the puck is: x.com/rork_app/statu…

Telling that they named Anthropic first apple.com/newsroom/2026/…

This new trend of the U.S. companies launching new models before everybody takes off for winter break, and the Chinese companies dropping new models right before Chinese New Year is so interesting, and makes so much sense.

@paularambles I did ... In '92 ... and haven't looked back

at some point a little voice in your head will tell you to move across the world to sf. it’s very important you listen.

@tbpn @GergelyOrosz This is real.

Pragmatic Engineer's @GergelyOrosz is on a "secret email list" of agentic AI coders, and they're starting to report trouble sleeping because agent swarms are "like a vampire." "A lot of people who are in 'multiple agents mode,' they're napping during the day... It just really is draining." "This thing is like a vampire. It drains you out. You have trouble sleeping."

San Francisco is the warmest city in the lower 48 this morning

@KrishivThakuria Make $600/mo reliably

What would an AI agent have to do for you for you to be willing to pay $500/month for it?

@stuffyokodraws Agree.

I think localhost matters much less now. Coding models are good enough that validating in prod-like environments just works. Why grind on localhost when you can iterate async against a real deployed environment?

the reason Swiss watches are so good, the reason German cars are so good is the same reason Silicon Valley pumps out one tech innovation after the other. like it or not (i certainly don't) this is where the talent is. if you want to become the best founder, software developer or AI engineer in the world, you don't go to Sao Paulo or Buenos Aires. you move to San Francisco

@AlexFinn 💯planning more together first is the shift left needed to help minimize entropy once the agents start coding.

And just like that Ralph Wiggum is dead Claude Code can now create its own project tasks and manage itself This is the next step towards Claude being a 24/7 autonomous agent Lesson from this: spend more time on the planning phase. Have Claude build as many detailed tasks as it can. The more time you spend on this, the more time you'll save later having to prompt Claude, because it will just be able to manage itself for hours