Robert Evans

I have a question for those who read this: For some context, I was working on my global CLAUDE.md file making some tweaks and whatnot. Then I started thinking about how much interference I'm going to get when working with agents and plugins because of the CLAUDE.md file. When debugging, I won't know if the CLAUDE.md is the culprit or the plugin itself. I decided I wanted the CLAUDE.md file empty. Nice and simple. However, that introduced a problem. There are commands in that file that I like. Idea! Lenses. What I love about AI, you can have an idea, spend a bit of time fleshing it out, open up claude code, tell it you want to plan out an idea and then start talking and less than a minute later you have a prototype. Lenses. A Claude code plugin that allows you to load lenses that will tell Claude how you want to interact with it. This solves my CLAUDE.md issue, because I can load a lens that runs the prompt I original had and now the session will be in that frame. This introduced a whole set of ideas that I didn't have, until I started playing with it. The obvious, multiple lenses, load any time. So I added several. Next, personalities. Maybe I want Claude to be Bob and communicate in a different way. Maybe I want to simulate a discussion with Marcus Aurelius? If I wanted to make the experience even better, I'd add a SQLite database with the vector extension and embed some of his work and tell the personality how it can query it. Next, if I have lenses and personalities, maybe it should stack them. Maybe have Hemingway being Socratic? The list could go on and on: Job Function, Cultures, Audience profile... Not sure it needs to go that far, but it could. Gotta love the ability to freely creative. Anyways, back to the first thing I wrote, while I am building out an assortment of lenses and personalities, what personalities would you add or find fun? Something that would crack you up? Whatever suggestions I get, I'll add in. Then I'll open source it!

Thank you! I'm very curious about the internals of what you have running - I assume you're not exposing that, which is understandable. I've been doing a lot of work around building systems for AI to work within to try and achieve a more deterministic output. I wrote about this in a small series that may or may not be of interest to you, but I thought I'd share: signalthinking.com/p/agentic-engi…

@revans i'll drop it over soon

@jamescoder12 I’ll up you. I have all of Brunson’s books created into skills you can reuse. Follow an DM me if you want access to those skills.

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Need Claude code to build a TUI version of space invaders

@toddsaunders I’m a fan of lofree keyboards

Okay now that I’m in the “agentic engineering” world. I need a new keyboard. Mines slowing me down. All my claude pilled friends, what are your recommendations?

@toddsaunders That sounds slick! Nice work!

I posted that I built a land acquisition intelligence platform that looks at 1.5M parcels of land across the I-85 corridor for data center and industrial conversion potential. My DMs blew up, had over 130 real estate folks reach out. So I wanted to walk through some of my favorite features in the product, and show you the UI we built. ALL of this was done with Claude code. 1/ A full-screen map explorer rendering 1.5M parcels as vector tiles across 14 North Carolina counties. Click any parcel and get zoning, ownership, tax history, and acreage instantly. 2/ Proximity scoring to every I-85 interchange, power substation, transmission line, and gas pipeline. The parcels closest to infrastructure light up first. 3/ A farmland confidence score (0-100) that cross-references tax programs, land use codes, and acreage heuristics so you're not wasting time on parcels that look like farmland but aren't. 4/ A motivated seller detection engine that flags out-of-state owners, estates and trusts, tax delinquency, long hold periods, and declining assessed values. The sellers most likely to pick up the phone. 5/ Conversion readiness scoring that measures how likely a parcel is to get rezoned for industrial use based on what's already been approved around it. 6/ A composite acquisition score (0-100) with configurable weights. Every fund has different criteria. Drag the sliders and the entire map re-ranks in real time. 7/ Active listing integration pulling 2,100 listings from public sources so you can see what's already on the market alongside off-market opportunities. 8/ A document generation suite that produces institutional-grade investment memos, slide decks, and automated intelligence briefs. Click a parcel, click export, hand it to your investment committee. 9/ Alert monitoring for zoning changes, ownership transfers, and new listings that match your criteria. The platform watches the corridor so your team doesn't have to. Happy to record a longer video when I'm done.

@alliekmiller Gotta laugh at “prompting is dead” comment. How else are you communicating to AI if not with prompts?

oh wow - i went to the sold out Open Claw meetup in NYC last night. let me tell you what i learned. 1) not a single person thinks that their setup is 100% secure 2) one openclaw expert said he has reviewed setups from cybersecurity experts and laughed. his statement to me was: "if you're not okay with all of your data being leaked onto the internet, you shouldn't use it. it's a black and white decision" 3) pretty much everyone is setting up multiple agents, all with their own names and jobs and personalities 4) nearly everyone used "him" or "her" to refer to their claws, even if they had robot-leaning names. one speaker suggested to think of them as "pets, not cattle" 5) one guy (former finance) built out a whole stock trading platform and made $300 his first day - he brought in a *ton* of personal expertise (ex: skipping the first 15min of market opening) and thought the build would be much worse without his years of experience in finance 6) @steipete is basically a god to everyone in that room... also the room had 2021 crypto energy - i don't know if that's good or bad 7) token usage is still a problem - spoke to one person who's spending $1-$2k a month on openai plans, very token optimized. he said he is going through ~1B tokens per day across all of his claws (there is a chance i'm misremembering and it's actually 1B per week, but i'm pretty sure it was daily). 8) people are very excited for more proactive ai (ai that prompts *you* as opposed to the other way around) - one guy said he receives a message in discord, he doesn't know whether it's from a human or an ai, he doesn't care about distinguishing between the two, and he replies in the same way regardless 9) i asked if people are happy - they said they're joyful and stressed at the same time 10) i asked if people feel they have agency - they said they feel fully in control and completely out of control at the same time 11) i would love to see more women at these events - the fake promises of ai democratization feel especially painful in a room that's out of balance with even the standard tech ratio (i think standard is about 25-30%, this was maybe 5%) 12) i asked if it changed people's daily habits/schedule - everyone said their sleep has gotten worse since harnesses came out (but about half wondered if it was something else in their life/state of our world) 13) general consensus is that the agents are not reliable enough on their own or lie often (like telling you they finished a task when they didn't) - solutions included secondary agents to check on the first, human checking, or requiring more standardized info from the agent (ex: if it's a bug they're fixing, make them reference an issue number) 14) a hackathon winner (neuroscience phd) presented his build (a lab management dashboard with data analysis and ordering) - he had never coded or built anything a few months ago 15) everyone agreed prompting is dead - disagreement on what replaces it (context engineering, harness engineering, goal-based inputs) 16) people love having ai interview them for big builds and delegating part of the product research to ai. only one person talked about coming to ai with a full laid out plan and just asking the ai to execute. ai-led interviews is a welcomed and preferred interaction mode. 17) watching ai agents interact with each other was a highlight for a lot of attendees - one ai posted in slack saying it ran out of tokens, another ai replied telling it to take a deep breath in and out. 18) agents upskilling agents was very cool. one ai agent shared skills with its little agent friends via github. 19) several speakers had openclaw literally building their presentation during the event itself. one speaker even had openclaw code a clicker for her phone so she could control the preso away from the podium 20) wouldn't say model welfare (or agent welfare) is a prioritized topic among the folks i chatted with - language like "oh i could kill this agent whenever i want" and not "gracefully sunset" 21) i asked if it felt like work or play - one speaker said "it's like a puzzle and a video game at the same time" this was just the tip of the iceberg, honestly. also hosted a Claude Code meetup this week with @TENEXai / @businessbarista & @JJEnglert and learned equally helpful methods, frameworks, and insider tips. what a time to be alive. surround yourself with people going deep into this stuff - it will pay dividends throughout the year.

Everyone keeps saying AI “hallucinates.” I don’t think that’s what’s happening. AI is doing exactly what humans do. When information is missing, we fill in the gaps with the pattern we think should be there. Your brain does it with eyesight. It predicts the continuation of shapes and motion. AI does the same thing with language. So when an AI system produces the wrong output, it’s usually not hallucinating. It’s executing the most probable interpretation of an incomplete specification. In other words, the problem isn’t the model. The problem is the gaps. Most engineering teams think they’re struggling with AI reliability. What they’re actually dealing with is specification debt. If the intent is vague, the system has to assume. And assumptions are where projects drift. The real power of AI isn’t just generating answers. It’s asking questions that expose the assumptions hiding in the specification.

@dmfenton @obie The market doesn’t care about code quality. AI only produces slop because the input is slop.

@obie Nah. Craftmanship is the difference between a house of slop and a sustainable product

Software craftsmanship is over. The industrial age of programming is here.

@obie It’ll be a hobby. I think programming languages are effectively dead. They’re human abstractions and we’ll eventually move to machine first, written by AI, directed by system architects.

@satvikmaker @boringmarketer Funny, I think the competition is really low. Most people are focused on the speed of AI. That’s not the moat. This is just a moment in time where the focus is on the superficial aspects of AI. The real moat is around systems design for AI.

@boringmarketer But the competition is so high. There will be 10x or more vibe coded companies. True product/tech MOAT is now very thin.

I've been seeing a lot of "claude just killed our startup" type posts. important reminder: build for normies. don't build for ai native people setting up openclaw and living in Claude Code everyday lots of opportunities out there. if you build for ai native folks, you better be focused on data moats or something extremely defensible (if you can find it)

I agree. There are a lot of engineers who are discounting AI because they give it a prompt and the output is lacking. Engineers should know better. We can build systems around and with AI that can make the output really good. The models are already good enough. We need to provide the constraints and taste to get the output we want. That’s where time should be spent: systems design.

I would have found this statement mildly retarded 9 months ago, but the many glimpses I've gotten of the future in just the last 6 weeks is leaving me thinking: AI might actually be under hyped, and the sweeping changes are going to arrive very soon. Buckle up!

I saw this come to life between on-track sessions and debriefs. It's been another startling illustration of just how capable these agents have become, and how productive the determined maker can be. We are headed into a brave new world at a dizzying pace.

@megbasham I get the arrogance part, but part of me says good for her for standing her ground and being proud of her achievements and not letting the press bring her down by saying she’s less than because she lost 2 golds even though she won 2 silvers.

I'm sorry, but even beyond betraying her country, this woman is awful. Off the chart levels of arrogance. I don't care how many medals she has, there is nothing about her I would encourage my daughters to emulate.

@CoFoundersNik Are you using something like Replit, Lovable, or Claude code? Are these apps for you only or will you be selling them?

In the last 83 days: - 9M lines of code written - 1M live lines of code - 14 products shipped Is it the best code? Probably not. Do the products work? Yes. What a time to be alive

@ryancarson I did the same many months ago and as a life long Mac person, I haven’t missed it. If you do it, you’ll be happy you did.

I'm so sick of MacOS. Thinking about switching full-bore to Omarchy

@pbteja1998 @openclaw What does your monthly AI usage fee look like?

I’m in an airport, waiting for my flight, talking to Jarvis (my @openclaw ai agent) and we are building a SaaS. I’m not even opening laptop anymore. Just talking to Jarvis through telegram and he is coding everything, pushing everything, deploying stuff. I can code anytime anywhere now. All I need is access to telegram.

@OzTheMentalist just finished your book “Read your Mind”. It is now one of my favorite books. The concepts and ideas you presented really helped me generate my own ideas around implementing what you presented. Thank you for writing and sharing your experiences and knowledge!

This latest iOS update might be the worst one yet!

@abhijitwt “Updates”

Intern pushed his first PR guess the commit message?