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This is a new style as well that I'm testing and I'm talking about systems thinking a little bit more in it and how I think that you can do more as a company now, especially if you're a consultancy. If you're thinking of starting your own or already have one, this video might be huge value for you! It's on my YouTube so if you can go like it there and leave a comment that would be amazing I'll probably create a text companion and make a few more videos and add this to a new series called systems thinking In the classroom! We shall see.
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Welcome to Clief Notes. Here's where to start.
1. Watch the intro video and introduce yourself in the intro post here 2. Start with The Foundation (free course). Concepts, folder architecture, prompting framework. Everything else builds on this. 3. Check in at the bottom of each lesson. Polls, discussion posts, other members working through the same stuff. Use them. 4. When you're ready to build real things, move to Implementation Playbooks (Level 2). When you're ready to build your own tools, Building Your Stack (Level 3). 5. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?
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🏆 Weekly Comp #2: The Artifact Sprint 🏆
💰 Week 1 winner @Ian Barriopedro took home $200 cash. 🎟️ This week the prize gets bigger. ✨ Winner gets a FREE seat in The Lyceum. ✨ https://www.skool.com/quantum-quill-lyceum-1116/12-weeks-real-projects-250k-in-prizes-lets-talk?p=e850567b 🎯 Pick your cohort: Technical, Business, or Creator. Your call. 📋 THE CHALLENGE: "The Returning Client" You just got hired again. Different client this time. Meet Marcus. 👋 📎 Download the full client brief attached to this post. 🛠️ YOUR DELIVERABLE An interactive artifact built in Claude that does what Marcus asked for. ✍️ Plus a 100 word writeup covering: - 👤 Who it's for - ⚙️ What it does - 🎨 One design choice you made and why 📐 THE RULES ✅ It has to work ✅ It has to sound like Marcus, not a bank ✅ The writeup matters ⚖️ Judging: Myself, Jake, and the mods. 🎟️ Who can enter: Premium and VIP members only. Free members, this is your sign. Upgrade and you're in the running for a Lyceum seat. 🚀 📨 How to submit: Drop a screen recording or screenshot of your artifact, the link if you've got one, and your writeup in the comments below. 📅 Deadline: Saturday, May 2nd at 12:00 PM EST 🎉 Winner announced: Monday, May 4th at 12:00 PM EST 💡 A note before you start. This isn't a finance challenge. It's a design and voice challenge. You don't need to be a CFP to win this. Read the brief. Marcus tells you exactly what he wants and how he thinks. Your job is to build something that solves his problem and sounds like him. 🆕 If you've never built an artifact in Claude before, this is a great first one. The brief is clear, the scope is reasonable, and the bar is "would Marcus actually send this to a prospect?" 🔥 @Ian Barriopedro set the standard last week. Your turn. LFG 🚀
I had to build fences around my own brain
Six months in, I noticed I was outsourcing the thinking, not just the tasks to AI. I'd open a chat before I'd actually sit with the problem. I put the friction back deliberately: reading without it, first drafts without it, 20 minutes on a problem before I touch anything. I still use AI constantly. But I've found the line between tool and crutch is entirely about what you let it replace. Anyone else drawing lines like this? What did you fence off?
I've been using Hermes to orchestrate Opencode instead of running Claude Code for entire builds.
Hermes handles orchestration. it writes the PRD and spec, breaks the work into phases, generates the subtask list, then invokes Opencode via terminal to do the actual build. Opencode finishes, Hermes reviews the output, issues the next task. I show up at the end for QA. The reason is context hygiene. When a single agent holds the full build history, it starts drawing relationships between components that don't exist. By phase 4 of anything non-trivial, you're chasing hallucinated dependencies. Rotating Opencode in fresh for each phase means it only sees what it needs for that task. Worth being honest: When it comes to development, I'm a hobbyist building personal tools. My main domain is Desktop Support and Network Administration. I don't know how this holds up under real deadlines or at a larger scale. That's a gap. If anyone is curious let me know and I'll post how I did the setup. Has anyone here run a setup where the orchestrator and builder are different tools? Curious if the spec quality becomes the real bottleneck at higher complexity.
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