I'm curious what everyone here likes to do for fun (of course building stuff with Claude is fun too lol), and if you've applied any AI to your hobby. For me it's been super useful for DND planning and I find I get to stay in creative flow more. Curious what other people are doing

Hey Everyone, Just wanted to share a small win for me today. I managed to secure my first sit down with a possible client today. I got talking to our contract manager at work today just general chit chat talking about his role and what it entailed. We got onto how late he has to work and how it was hard on the family so so forth. I said to him what if i could give you that time back through implementing software that did a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to office admin. he laughed and asked how was that I explained lv learned how to use AI to build systems we went back and forth a bit about AI talking about where it might lead and such and I'm not going to lie basically regurgitated Jakes classes stating things like how its now to have a hand carved rifle will set you back a small fortune but way back when you would of been looked down on, I spoke about the part about human desire and how that will always be there. He was completely taken back to him I was now not just a vet and a carpenter I was the future and Iv been asked to come to the office tomorrow to sit down and talk. I know its only a sit down and nothing confirmed but when i first approached them i was basically laughed out the office and given work via what's app but that small amount of knowledge might be the reason my life changes for the better. So thank you @Jake Van Clief .for giving this course away and helping complete beginners like me a fighter chance of a better future.

First off I want to thank @Jake Van Clief for sharing his knowledge and information to help benefit the rest of us. I took the ICM document that Jake provided and copied and pasted the lesson text into MD files and added them to a Claude project. I then asked Claude to walk me through building my own folder architecture, and it did it step by step because of all the information that was provided to it by the ICM document. The classroom lessons took time because you genuinely have to think about things and work out ideas and have some back and forth with Claude. Of course, there are times where I didn't understand what needed to be done or what the purpose of something was, and so I'd have to ask Claude. Because Jake provided such detailed information, Claude could give me a good answer and a good explanation as to why, and it started to make sense. The biggest mental switch that had to be flipped for me was realizing that this system is 𝒏𝒐𝒕 being built 𝒔𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 remember where things go. It's being built so that 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 remember where things go. Claude will do it all for me because we built out this system together. It's learning where things go. It's learning what to do at each stage of the process. It's learning how I want my deliverables to look. I had to stop and text my wife because I was so excited. It actually made me giddy going through this process. I was literally laughing to my self as I realized the massive unload of busy work that's taking place thanks to this ICP system. I felt so silly, but I didn't care. This was a huge win for me! --=𝐇𝐲𝐩𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞=-- I wanted to share something for others who may be like me and struggle with self doubt and impostor syndrome creeping in whenever you're treading into unfamiliar territory -- Hype man mode! The best way to explain it is to paste the protocol Claude generated: ## Mindset Protocol When Carl says "hype man mode", "I'm in my head", "imposter syndrome", or similar — read carl-receipts.md before responding. Respond with specific evidence from Carl's actual history of wins and actions taken. Not generic encouragement — receipts. Remind Carl that the inner monologue gets answered with evidence, not feelings. That is his own strategy and it works.

The full hour-long session of afternoon tea is live on my YouTube. Anyone can watch it. Premium documents and prompts from session: Session 2 - 4/25/26 - The Vault · Clief Notes VIP session recording and documents are here: Session 4 - 4/25/2026 - The Drawing Room (VIP) · Clief Notes Two sessions this week and the artifact packages just landed for paid members. Here's what got covered so the whole community can see what's in each one. 🎩 VIP Session 4 — Replacement, Governance, and the Emerge Methodology 📦 @Marcin Hakemer-Fernandez asked if his language-learning app gets cloned in two months. We pulled in the Liquid Paper story (kitchen blender, sold to Gillette for $47.5M) and landed on the real question: are you building an AI company, or a company that uses AI? Different game, different moat. ⚖️ @Tiffany Coyle flagged a real consent gap on how AI platforms handle reporting. We walked through three actual 2026 cases: Italy fined OpenAI €15M, the EU Parliament banned Claude and Copilot internally, Microsoft confirmed a Copilot bug that exposed confidential email summaries for six weeks. Then the open-source escape hatch (Ollama, AnythingLLM, Open WebUI, Jan, OpenLLM, Spellbook ZDR) for anyone who needs privacy across every market. 👤Austin asked whether to build his name at his company or build his own. Answer: both. They're concentric circles. We worked through the Second-Order Problems Framework live — the move that lands authority faster than any pitch. 🌐 Plus the Emerge Conference build I covered for Matt (he was sick). 300+ branded websites in two days, 7M tokens burned, hosted free on GitHub Pages. Full methodology in the artifact package. 🔒 VIP members — the full Decision Map deck plus five companion MDs (Replacement and Framing Thesis, AI Governance Field Guide, Personal Brand and Second-Order Problems, Emerge Methodology, Term Sheet) are in the Drawing Room now. Recording's in there too.

For anyone interested there's a 5 day course coming up June 15 - 19, 2026. https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/5-day-ai-agents-intensive-vibecoding-course-with-google Here's google's announcement about it: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/kaggle-genai-intensive-course-vibe-coding-june-2026/ Course Overview - Dates: June 15 – 19, 2026. - Cost: Free of charge (requires a Kaggle account and Google AI Studio account). - Goal: To move beyond basic chatbots and teach learners how to build autonomous, production-ready "10x agents" using natural language as the primary programming interface (Vibe Coding). Daily Curriculum - Day 1: Introduction to autonomous agents and vibe coding workflows. - Day 2: Integrating external APIs, code execution, and multi-agent communication. - Day 3: Implementing long-term memory, state, and context engineering. - Day 4: Agent security, guardrails, and quality evaluations. - Day 5: Scaling local prototypes to cloud-deployed, observable production fleets. Learning Format & Resources - Daily Materials: Participants receive whitepapers, companion podcasts, and codelabs. - Interactive Learning: Daily livestreams and AMAs occur on Kaggle’s YouTube channel, with dedicated discussion channels on Discord. - Time Commitment: Approximately 1–2 hours of assignments plus 45–60 minutes for livestreams per day. Capstone Project - Task: Apply learned skills to build a real-world agent. - Timeline: Launches June 19, 2026; submissions due by June 30, 2026. - Rewards: Successful completion earns a Kaggle profile badge and certificate; top winners receive Kaggle swag and social media recognition.