I can see why this is so addicting. But let me share my first experience and maybe some of y'all can help me do it better. TLDR: I dipped my toe in the water and am getting acclimated and it's not as scary as I thought. Planning and the initial build is super fun, but troubleshooting is a slog and hits my rate limits quickly. I haven't set up the GSD framework yet, but am thinking maybe that could help me. My First Experience: I signed up for the $20/mo Pro Plan, downloaded Claude Desktop to my Mac. Saw there are three tabs (Chat, Code, and CoWork). I started with CoWork because I heard it's more familiar for non-coders. After introducing myself and asking what it could do, I asked it to help me find large files on my Mac and help me clear up storage space. I was scared to grant it access to my computer at first, which I told Claude, and it reassured me it wouldn't delete anything without my permission and is safe to use. Okay so I let it do it's thing. Without going into the details, it helped me clear up tons of storage space and identify hard to find cache files and other shit that takes up a lot of space. After about 30-60 minutes I was satisfied and wanted to try Claude Code next. So I hopped over to the Code tab (not using terminal yet). I sent Claude a message in the chat and introduced myself and asked what it could do. After chatting briefly, I asked if it could help me with a task I was doing earlier, which was compressing MP3 files to fit within Notion's 5MB file upload limit on the free plan. I also wanted to compress large PDF files that were taking up a ton of storage in my iBooks (some were 100+ MB) and didn't need to be. After trying out various online file converters and compressors, I asked if Claude could build me a simple right-click "compress PDF" action. During our chat it became clear I wanted it to also compress MP3s and even images. So I asked it to plan out an app which Claude named "Squeeze" that would intelligently reduce the file size of whatever I threw at it. It recommended installing tools like FFMPEG, Ghostscript, and various image compressors like mozJPEG, etc. Which it did on its own. I didn't have to figure this out. Cool.

@Lex Christopherson mentioned MacWhisper just when I was debating between Every's Monologue, and WhisperFlow. so I checked it out, did some Perplexity research, and apparently with recent updates enabling using (locally, no API stuff) Parakeet V3 by NVIDIA, the speech-to-text speed is amazing. It does so much more than just that, but that's for later. (transcribing, translating) It costs 64 Euro (currently 59 till end of Jan) took 10 minutes to setup. real private, nothing sent to the cloud. it's a steal!!! https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper (no affiliation, no nothing. just the link)

So I'm a semi-retired artist/designer/music producer and curious about AI. I found TÂCHES in the Meta Mind Music community on Skool and discovered his new GSD/Claude Code project and I'm into it. While I make good use of AI chat bots, I haven't delved into vibe coding yet. I'm one of those people that gets scared off by terminal and the technical hurdles. Not to mention the price tag ($200/mo, yikes). In my experience, gen-AI has been a waste of time and money. Hitting my limits and putting more money in the slot machine to try and get it to do what I want. There's so much hype and marketing BS and I just want to find out what's honest and what works for me.

What's up y'all? I'm Lex - known professionally as TÂCHES. Been a music producer for the last 14 years and over the last 2 years got into AI assisted development using Claude Code. I'm obsessed with systems thinking and optimising things so GSD is the natural evolution of wanting Claude Code to behave more intelligently so I could the things I wanted to consistently. I don't write ANY code. Happy to be here 🧑🏼‍💻 Check out GSD: https://github.com/glittercowboy/get-shit-done Check out my music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0xD1RASjJGXnTh5NxdrKxF?si=Wg9tzPlZRviL4ezbNP025Q