Volodymyr Pavlenko

i’m building a tiny mac menu bar app for developers using claude code, codex, and opencode. it shows: today’s spend weekly burn cost by agent cost by model cost by session/project daily cap alerts no accounts. no cloud. no telemetry. just local logs on your mac. looking for early testers. reply or dm me if you use coding agents daily.

@ChShersh and those tests for green ci are also added by ai lmao

I miss the toxic tech culture of receiving 50+ code review comments. Now everyone just pushes AI slop and doesn’t care as long as CI is green.

yeah, that makes a lot of sense. so it’s less about “how much did i spend today?” and more about “how much runway do i still have this week?” i like the idea of a weekly pace view: - weekly cap - spent so far - budget left - suggested spend for today - maybe weekends counted differently so the app could say something like: “you have $18 left this week. based on your weekly cap, today’s safe range is around $4.50.” or “you’re a bit ahead of pace, so maybe slow down today if you want to stay under the weekly limit.” that feels much more useful than just showing totals.

@mindinpanic My main use case would be "can I push more tokens today, or should I hit break a little to fit into weekly limits"! That's what I'm most concerned about (and some "sophisticated" calculations that take into account weekends etc)

i’m building a tiny mac menu bar app for developers using claude code, codex, and opencode. it shows: today’s spend weekly burn cost by agent cost by model cost by session/project daily cap alerts no accounts. no cloud. no telemetry. just local logs on your mac. looking for early testers. reply or dm me if you use coding agents daily.

@ashen_one omg dude you're cooking

How to Make An Entire iOS App That Doesn't Look Like AI Slop (1 Hour Full Walkthrough) Let's go through how to use Claude Code, Claude Design, Seedance 2.0, GPT Image 2.0 and a few other tools to make sure this iOS app is as far from AI slop as possible while also having a completely functioning backend with pay walls 00:00 Building an App Overview 01:19 How I Made Merl in One Week 03:16 Market Research for Ideas 07:04 Choosing the Wrapper Concept 08:51 Pinterest UI Inspiration 11:16 Define Style + Mascot Plan 12:00 Create Mascots in GPT Image 2.0 17:04 Animate Mascots with Seedance 2.0 (!!) 23:41 Design Onboarding in Claude Design 29:01 Getting Some API Keys 30:35 Onboarding Video Choices 32:30 Build Full App Screens on Claude Design 33:28 Setup Supabase + Railway 35:31 Claude Code GitHub Setup 38:57 Multi Terminal + Simulator Workflow 43:17 Fixing Errors 44:00 Backend Keys Integration 46:23 Landing Page Generation 53:52 Test Generation 57:40 RevenueCat + Pricing Strategy 01:00:54 Final Wrap

@thsottiaux yeah i'm codexmaxxing today

Feeling codexy today

@ivanovandrewx nice, that’s a useful case too. even with subscription pricing, i think there’s value in seeing where agent usage goes across projects/sessions/models. more “what did my agents spend time on today?” than only “what did it cost?”

@mindinpanic Daily codex use on $100/m subscription across 1-2 projects

@ivanovandrewx thanks Andrew 🙌 do you use claude code/codex/opencode regularly? i’m collecting a tiny early tester list and want people who can give blunt feedback on whether the menu bar view is actually useful during real work.

@mindinpanic 👋

this is why i think ai coding tools need an “activity monitor” moment. not another big dashboard or finance workflow. just simple live visibility while developers work: what did i spend today? which model/session got expensive? am i close to my cap? i started building the tiny mac version because i wanted this for myself.

Token spend is out of control inside many (most?) tech companies. We gathered first-hand data from 15 companies on what is happening, and what they are doing about it. The two strategies are either "let it rip" or "curb spending, NOW" Full: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-toke…

@dramaricic lmao i haven't looked into my code for a year

Real question: Are you actually better at coding now, or just better at using Claude?

@andi_losing congrats!

just got my first apple payout ngl this feels special :)

ai coding agents are becoming part of my daily dev workflow, but cost visibility still feels weirdly late. i don’t want to check a dashboard after the fact. i want to know, while i’m working: what did i spend today? which agent cost the most? which model ate the budget? which session got expensive? building a tiny mac menu bar app for this.

@casapiara this is exactly the kind of dinner i’d be weirdly tempted to say yes to but i'm busy, have fun

I'm hosting a dinner for developers tonight here in Lisbon and there's an open seat. If you're an introvert who also prefers smaller groups, and if thinking and talking about the future of programming gets you excited, reach out to me 😊

@ghostdotxyz let's do it

If you're a creator, builder, founder, or professional, I want to follow you!

update: 185 → 200 15 away now this is the weird part where it feels both tiny and impossible 😅 if you’re building small too, say hi let’s make the timeline less lonely

@ens_pyrz feels like the “break things” part is easy, the hard part is figuring out what still works after

We are back in the "move fast, break things" era

@thsottiaux Design hand off from ChatGPT to codex

Send us feature requests for codex in the form of an images 2.0 generated image. It makes it easier for codex to implement if we decide to go for it. Saw some good ones today already that codex is cooking on.

After TWO (2) conversation turns, with the Medium thinking effort, this fucker shows me this red screen of death and charges me $20/month!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS CRAZY! AMODEI, I WANT MY MONEY BACK AND YOUR SUPPORT BOT REFUSES TO TALK!!!!

quick side quest while i was blocked on my main app. building a small macOS menu bar app to track AI coding agent usage and cost locally. no accounts, no cloud, no telemetry. more soon 👀

i know y’all are execution machines, focused on your apps and distribution. i’ll be like you when i grow up. but i’m easily distracted, so while i was blocked on my main app, skarbi, i started building a tiny macOS app to track my AI agent usage and costs. i know, i know, there are already a bunch of these. but mine is unique. hehe. stay tuned, i’ll share more soon.

we're cooked