Hugo · Documenting Daily AI Experiment

I’m running a daily AI experiment in public. Each day: - I test one AI workflow/tool - I share 1 key lesson (usually psychological) - I publish it on hugomelis.nl If you’re curious how AI changes not just work, but how we think/decide/create: hugomelis.nl/experiments/

@bindureddy Have you compared it to any big model?

Open source continues to catch up with closed source MiniMax 2.7 just dropped and will likely become the most used LLM on Claw in days 🚀

@paulg I love how you explain this so simple.

Few people consciously realize this, but a resume is just a predictor of performance. If you can skip straight to performance, you don't need the predictor.

Someone asked if it's a good idea to start a startup when you have nothing notable on your resume. Absolutely. All that matters in a startup is whether users like the product, and users don't care (either way) what's on your resume.

@itsolelehmann Crazy to think this will be the case, but I guess your right...

pretty sure in 6-12 months most people will do 90% of their work via claude interface

@xoaanya Codex for sure! Works at least as good IMO... And the usage limits are way higher. Wrote about it: hugomelis.nl/experiments/ex…

If you had $20 to invest, which would you choose? – Codex – Claude Code Heard Claude hits limits fast… what would you pick?

@shl I think Henk will love this... hugomelis.nl/experiments/ag…

You can replace 99.9% of your business spend with a $600 Mac Mini

@sweatystartup Make people addicted to subsidized crack cocaine and then just hike prices to infinity...

Every time you consider making a key AI tool a significant part of your business ask: Would this tool still make sense if it costs 5x as much? How disruptive would it be to stop using it completely 6 months from now? People aren’t thinking about the downstream impact.

@unusual_whales So are we front loading a massive improvement in economic growth that is just postponed?

"Massive investment in AI contributed basically zero to US economic growth last year," per Goldman Sachs

@davidpattersonx Oh interesting take. I don't agree with... I think...

AI is closer to the limit of intelligence than most people think. At the current rate of improvement, AI will become perfect at everything by 2028 or 2029. Beyond that point, it won't matter whether AI becomes more intelligent, because it won't become any more useful.

@rand_longevity It's easy to hate! Doing the work is harder.

hating on AI is a sign of low IQ

@AlexHormozi 🫡 Documenting a daily AI experiment to learn. On day 30 now.

Friendly reminder that AI will never be worse than it is right now. If you assume any rate of improvement over any reasonable period - learning how to use it becomes your #1 priority.

@karpathy When i try to make agents use shiny workflows they often get flaky fast. Give them a CLI and things usually just work better. had the same happen with my X scraping setup. browser automation kept fighting me, then the simpler route worked way better: hugomelis.nl/experiments/ex…

CLIs are super exciting precisely because they are a "legacy" technology, which means AI agents can natively and easily use them, combine them, interact with them via the entire terminal toolkit. E.g ask your Claude/Codex agent to install this new Polymarket CLI and ask for any arbitrary dashboards or interfaces or logic. The agents will build it for you. Install the Github CLI too and you can ask them to navigate the repo, see issues, PRs, discussions, even the code itself. Example: Claude built this terminal dashboard in ~3 minutes, of the highest volume polymarkets and the 24hr change. Or you can make it a web app or whatever you want. Even more powerful when you use it as a module of bigger pipelines. If you have any kind of product or service think: can agents access and use them? - are your legacy docs (for humans) at least exportable in markdown? - have you written Skills for your product? - can your product/service be usable via CLI? Or MCP? - ... It's 2026. Build. For. Agents.

@sweatystartup Oh interesting take. Not sure if it will pan out, but the price of electricity will become a huge factor over the coming years.

AI about to get 20x expensive. These $200 / month claude subscriptions are burning $5,000 worth of credits. The bubble is going to pop and it will pop soon.

@robinebers Depends on the use case I think. Also OpenClaw has the first mover advantage.

Claude is replacing OpenClaw and i’m honestly here for it

@gdb Yeah, I like Codex! I tested "PRD -> code" vs "prompt -> code" and the docs mattered less than I expected. The bigger win for me was the model catching bad assumptions during the build. hugomelis.nl/experiments/ex…

codex has gotten very good!

@PomofitX AI does tend to overshoot on the added complexity most of the times. Codebase being enough guidance is a good insight! 😃

@Hugo1652265 Exactly and sometimes so much of my day could be fixing and patching existing application, then claude does not need to plan the codebase is enough guidance.

I’m running a daily AI experiment in public. Each day: - I test one AI workflow/tool - I share 1 key lesson (usually psychological) - I publish it on hugomelis.nl If you’re curious how AI changes not just work, but how we think/decide/create: hugomelis.nl/experiments/

@PomofitX Oh, that is interesting. I love the /plan mode, but you are right. I can also sometimes overdo it. And have an over-engineer'd feature that has all the bells and whistles I didn't need.

The "Plan First or Start Fast?" with Claude Code. That one is most relatable as that's what I'm running in now daily finding the right balance between using /plan or just letting it jump in. And for now I think for both cases there is a good moment. /plan definitely wins on big task/features or laying the ground work of an application. But for daily edits, bugfixes or frontend changes it's just to much. Sometimes it makes more sense to let Claude Code run 2 times fast instead of /plan one time. I'm also getting the impression that the desktop app from claude with claude code in it is planning more by default without me asking it to. Might be me but just feels different then in the terminal sometimes for the better but also much slower.

@PomofitX As in what experiment?

@PomofitX Thanks! Appreciate the comment. What post did you like most?

I don’t think PRDs are dead exactly, but I do think the extra layer needs to earn its keep. I tried PRD -> code vs just prompt -> code on the same feature. The PRD version picked the better solution, but more by being thorough than by actually understanding the problem better. If it doesn’t reliably make the result better, it’s mostly extra surface area. hugomelis.nl/experiments/ex…

the PRD is dead. devs don't read it, agents can't use. i asked PMs and devs on how they handle this in 2026: after ~200 replies in r/productmanagement (topped) & r/experienceddevs found similar issues on both sides so i open sourced 16 product skills for ai coding agents link below:

@PomofitX @NehraWorkss I had kind of the opposite experience tbh. Not even because the hard limit is super low, more because once I start thinking about the limit mid-task I trust the tool less. Then switching starts to feel pretty reasonable. Wrote about that here: hugomelis.nl/experiments/ex…

@NehraWorkss Claude Code has the best pricing model. It just works and you almost never run over usage limits unless you build 10 project every month I guess or work in a codebase so big it probably should not exists anymore.

You got money which one you would purchase for coding?