Trevin Chow

So happy to saddle up and help contribute!

@razzohq tbh, I'm not sure how many people use it for non-coding projects. But conceptually, the brainstorm skill could be used for non-coding things if you just tell it what it's for. what types of things are you thinking about?

@trevin How are people using CE for non-coding projects? Is it effective?

Goodbye "dangerously skip permissions" hello "less dangerously skip permissions"... err.. "auto permissions mode".

@benjitaylor this is amazing!

Introducing Layout Mode for Agentation, a new way to explore and wireframe directly on the page. Rearrange and resize existing elements, add new components, and generate structured design feedback for your agent.

Repeatedly hitting enter while you watch Claude Code work is not the way to max efficiency. Use @doodlestein's destructive command guard (DCG) with claude code's "dangerously skip permissions". You're welcome. github.com/Dicklesworthst…

PreToolUse hook support coming soon to Codex! github.com/openai/codex/p…

@mvanhorn @mvanhorn I’m still on the @conductor_build bandwagon. Makes everything so much easier, should try it!

@trq212 Need this for slack!

We just released Claude Code channels, which allows you to control your Claude Code session through select MCPs, starting with Telegram and Discord. Use this to message Claude Code directly from your phone.

@bigwilliestyle Only gotcha is it only works with Claude code, Gemini and open code. Codex doesn’t have pretooluse hooks (yet)

@trevin Great stuff- I'll have to check it out

Bash tool calls responses from things like ls and cat are killing you in token usage. This is a clever cli drop in to pair down your usage drastically by filtering tool responses. github.com/rtk-ai/rtk

@trq212 Nearly all my projects use AGENTS.md and has CLAUDE.md pointing to it. the new `/init` keeps incorrectly updating the wrong file.

we're testing a new version of /init based on your feedback- it should interview you and help setup skills, hooks, etc. you can enable it with this env_var flag: CLAUDE_CODE_NEW_INIT=1 claude would love your feedback!

@bcherny @trq212 Feature request: Improve `allowed-tools` in skills to support an additive mode. lLt me grant specific Bash patterns (e.g. `Bash(agent-browser *)`) without implying everything else is denied. Currently it’s all-or-nothing: either you list every tool the skill needs, or you leave it off entirely. A suggested-tools or grant-tools field that adds permissions on top of the default set would be much more useful.

@bigwilliestyle Just working in the compound-engineering plugin today i'm getting massive savings

@trevin Notice any degradation in quality?

@bigwilliestyle Not yet! Seems like a huge win to just drop in

I saw the movie and it’s brilliant. $33M opening day is a marketing and IP story, not a production method story. People showed up because of the book and Gosling, not because they knew about the animatronic puppet. And the comparisons are cherry-picked: Snow White and Quantumania failed for reasons way beyond VFX (poor marketing, audience fatigue, etc). Avatar made $2.3B built almost entirely in a computer. The audience “can always tell” except when they apparently can’t? What audiences actually respond to is craft and coherence, not the specific tools used to get there. Lord and Miller clearly brought both and that’s the thing to celebrate.

$33.1M opening day with zero green screens. Read that again. Project Hail Mary cost $200 million to make. Lord and Miller built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a practical set. Thousands of physical buttons, hundreds of real screens, a hatch modeled after ISS designs. The alien, Rocky, is a full animatronic puppet designed by Neal Scanlan, the creature shop legend behind the best Star Wars practical work. Ryan Gosling acted against a real puppet in every single scene. The movie has 2,018 VFX shots. That sounds like a lot until you compare it to Avatar: Fire and Ash, which ran over 3,500. The difference: Avatar builds the world digitally and asks the audience to believe it. Project Hail Mary builds the world physically and uses VFX to clean up wires, remove puppeteers, and paint in space backgrounds. One approach creates spectacle. The other creates presence. This is a $200 million bet against the last 15 years of Hollywood production logic. After Avengers: Endgame, the industry standardized around green screen stages and digital environments because it was faster and cheaper per shot. Studios could reshoot entire sequences in post. The tradeoff was invisible until it wasn't: audiences started describing blockbusters as looking like "video games." Snow White's $42M opening. The Marvels at $46M. Quantumania. Ant-Man built on a soundstage that looked like it. Lord and Miller went the opposite direction and spent more money on physical construction than most studios spend on entire VFX pipelines. Greig Fraser, the cinematographer who shot Dune, lit the Hail Mary with practical lights so the camera could move freely through real corridors. When Gosling floats in zero-g, that's wire work, not simulation. When he touches a panel, it's a real panel. Guillermo del Toro saw the film and called the commitment to practical sets and puppets "a goal, an aspiration, and a commitment. Especially now." The "especially now" is doing all the work in that sentence. He's talking about an industry where the default response to a $200M budget is to minimize physical production and maximize digital flexibility. Project Hail Mary did the opposite and just posted the biggest non-franchise opening day in domestic box office history. The audience can tell. They've always been able to tell.

after running it for a few hours on a new machine jumping in and out of claude code and codex sessions

The Project Hail Mary movie was a masterpiece. Deserves all the critical praise it’s received and ranks as one of the best scifi films I’ve seen in my adult life. Dare I say better than Dune?!

Today’s my last day at @bigcartel. These past 3 years have gone by in a flash. To the team: I love you and will miss you. After a great run, I decided it was the right time to step away and take a break. I’m looking forward to time with my family, spending more time on a few AI side projects, and finally making a dent in a growing list of books and recipes. I don’t have a specific next thing lined up, and that’s intentional. For now, I’m focused on playing and learning, and taking the time to be deliberate about what comes next.

@lennysan yep! In the thing i'm building, it would have been much better if there was a durable way to get the speaker/author's company, title and social links

@trevin In the data set you mean? Adding this as metadata?

@lennysan have you considered releasing some type of speaker/author index so we have a more durable lookup of their company and role?