I like to use other harnesses other than Claude from time to time; because I want to burn tokens but not money, and I like to write prompting experiments that are measurable, which means they have potential to get better! So for something like this, I like to use Opencode CLI instead of Claude CLI. And I noticed that sometimes some models don't respond well to CLAUDE.md as an entry point. So, I went through several iterations using auto researcher. And it looks like START_HERE is doing pretty well. Better than CLAUDE and even README which surprised me. I'm not saying this a gold standard but wanted to share.

I use, but I'm thinking about switching my IDE for a change of pace and to explore new workflows. I'm curious if any of you use alternatives like Cursor, Antigravity, or something else entirely. If so, which one do you prefer and why? I'd love to hear your experiences and recommendations before deciding on a switch.

Anyone have a better way than what this old man has in his tool belt? I currently use a custom JS and the developers console to output formatted JSON. 😅Not looking for AI scraping tools, just a simple way to get links from a site. (I may already be using it)

TLDR: My co-worker has been manually extracting data from 100s of files one at a time and manually managing files for years. This is a longterm client with set workflow. Usually takes him 2 days and I set up a workflow that will do it in a few minutes. Showed my boss and CEO and got the ok to get a Claude MAX seat. Context: I'm a sound designer and work at a post-production audio studio that also does games. The post engineers work on a lot of projects that require manual setup. They were griping at lunch about how they have to open hundreds of text files to find 1 single line of data that they need during their edit session and then manually qa it against the session when it's setup. It sounded like hell to me so I asked if they wouldn't mind showing me what they have to do and they literally manually open each folder, find the text file, write down on a piece of paper the number and then enter it by hand in the computer later. I spent 10 minutes and described to claude what I needed a python file to do. It gave it back to me and the script was able to extract the data they needed in seconds. But that got me thinking, I know there's a python library that works with Pro Tools (our audio editing software), and the current weekly contest is about making a specialist... COuld I make a specialist in Protools Python scripting that can tailor workflows to any engineer? So I spent about 4 hours speccing an ICM folder that specializes in Python Scripting for Pro Tools. Brought it to work today and --- it didn't work -- immediately at least. IN practice discovered there were errors in the documentation for the python library, so we had to fix the documentation. But after that was able to create a contained python script anybody could run and showed my co-workers and ceo. They were super excited about the possibilities and when I asked if I could go ahead and get a Claude Max subscription they said yes immediately. Might also be showing the wider company the setup and what's possible next Monday. Was totally worth staying up all night yesterday to get this out 🤣

Hey guys, how are you getting clients. My builds are getting good and I want to start doing projects for free. Any suggestion. @Jake Van Clief . Your content is amazing. Can you create a course on just that or create a skill to help us automate most of it?