If any of you have his twitter/linked in, totally comment and tell him to respond to my email. Want him to come chat with all of us and I think he would be happy to just need him to get eyes on, as someone who gets thousands of emails a day I would not be surprised if he never sees it even if it is valuable.

Locked in for the next 5 days only. Ends May 5th at 10:00 AM EST. No exceptions. 🎉 Premium: $27 → $14/mo 🎉 VIP: $97 → $67/mo The closest you'll get to our original launch pricing. We're doing this because the community has shown up for us, and we want to show up back. 🤝 🔥 Already a member? Read this carefully. To lock in the new rate, you need to: 1. Cancel your current plan 2. Resign under the new price That's the only way the system can apply the new rate. We have way too many members for manual refunds, so we can't refund anyone who just signed up at current pricing. But the savings stack month over month, so if you plan to stick around (and you should 😁), the math works out fast. 🚫 A few ground rules: Please do not DM myself or Jake about pricing, exceptions, or extensions. We love you, but we're a small team and we need to stay focused on building. Everyone gets the same window. Everyone gets the same deal. If you miss it, you miss it. We'll do more things for the community down the road. ⏰ The clock: 🟢 LIVE NOW 🔴 Locks May 5th, 10:00 AM EST - Premium gets you The Vault and Afternoon Tea calls. - VIP gets you The Drawing Room, High Tea, and bespoke folder builds from Jake himself. If you've been on the fence, this is the moment. 🚀 Tag a friend who needs to be in here. Let's make Cinco a movement. 🎊 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Tell us three things: 1. What you do (job, industry, student, career-changer, whatever) 2. What brought you to Clief Notes 3. One thing you're trying to figure out right now related to computing or AI I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first I am Jake, I have been working in tech for 15 Years, building with Generative AI for 3 Years straight now! Excited to teach and learn! That's it. Simple, scannable, gives you data on who's joining and what they need, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.

I'm not sure if I’m comfortable with always relying on AI for work. As a heavy user, I’m constantly refining with AI, a system designed to mostly agree with you by default. When the internet is down or usage limit is maxed out, you feel powerless. I hardly use Google that once forced you to do some active reading. On days I don’t use AI I feel very refreshed. I wonder what a healthy balance look like. Is this an indication that I might need to limit my usage and actually THINK on some days so I don’t loose myself in the Augmentation process. [Augmentation is the active collaboration of Humans and AI to achieve a goal] What’s your experience? Can you work without AI?

Following up on my previous post about automating month-end, I want to pull back the curtain on the project that really started it all. It involves a massive company reconstruction, a "manual hell" task, and a midnight breakthrough that tripled my productivity. The Problem: A Reconstruction Hangover On January 1, 2026, our company underwent a major reconstruction. Customers were assigned new sales reps, but the final list of who owned which account wasn't finalized until April. In the meantime, we kept invoicing as usual. The invoices were correct, but the Sales Rep field on the historical records was now wrong. To fix it, we had to go back and update thousands of already invoiced sales orders. The Manual Workflow (or: How to lose your mind): 1. Search for the Sales Order. 2. Click Invoice. 3. Click Rebill. 4. Change the Sales Rep. 5. Click OK. 6. Hit Esc to exit. 7. Repeat... hundreds (or thousands) of times. Enter Claude Code & Playwright I had just started using Claude Code on March 19th after watching @Jake Van Clief ’s videos. Two weeks later, this assignment landed on my desk in the middle of my usual accounting duties. Since I didn’t have backend API access to D365 F&O, I turned to the Playwright MCP. If I couldn't talk to the database directly, I’d have Claude "drive" the browser just like a human would. The Automation Logic: - Open Chrome to the D365 Sales Order URL. - Open the filters tab. - Add filter information (Customer account, dates for Q1 2026, and identifying which sales orders had the wrong rep). - Execute the "Rebill" click-path automatically. The "Aha!" Moment at 00:30 AM It worked, but it was real slow. D365 isn't exactly a speed demon. My boss was happy ("as long as we don't have to do it, I don't care how slow it is"), but I knew we could do better. Earlier that day, I was running it in one browser and it was taking forever. While the kids were finally asleep that night, I had an idea: Can I run this on more than one tab?