Big Machine
Essays on code, business and the long way round.
The Key Is Leverage
Using AI in the programming world is great for speed and efficiency, but there’s so much more that’s possible if you just let go a little.
Inheriting a massive codebase, knowing what's there
I just pushed 7 more lessons to The Massive Codebase, which is the latest course I’m working on. I have a plan, but I’m literally “doing it live”, which means that my plans and ideas could absolutely…
This is my first send!
Hey Rob! Wanted to see how this looks and works: //this is js, I think const x = 12; Thing on Thing two Rubber duck Blue shoe
Opus 5 is changing the possibilities here
The shift to AI programming presents a number of problems that we need to figure out as senior developers: crap code, vibed nonsense, and skill erosion - to name a few. To me, the bigger problem is a…
Transform Books into Power Tools
This is such a strange time to be alive. I'm writing this email to you while Claude is rebuilding the dashboard page on my site so its interconnected with my new Discord server (more on that in a…
Throwing Claude at a 22 year old project
One of the fun things about running an AI community is that I get to read the fun stories that members share with me. One story that stuck with me was when a member had to migrate a legacy .NET…
Big Codebases, New Challenges
Imagine opening your email, seeing a new PR, clicking the link and seeing this: A wonderful 2300+ line pull request I suspect many of you would have a small laugh and close the review straight away…
Throw Fable at your notes while you can
Happy Final Fable day! If you haven’t used Anthropic’s new model yet, give it a whirl as today is the last day. If you do - I highly suggest you give it a task that will flex it’s power to a greater…
Is it possible to squeeze good code from a cheap model?
Here's a question for you: if you wrote extra bitchen skills, prompts, and instructions, could you make Haiku act like Opus or Sonnet? I'm prepping my first cohort session for tomorrow and there's…
Claude Code Session Weirdness
I was working with Jon Skeet a few days ago and I saw something quite strange. We did "Session 0" of the summer cohort where we extracted the knowledge in our brains and built out a set of skills…
Jon Skeet is joining me tomorrow, hope you are too!
The Turn Yourself Into a Plugin workshop is kicking off tomorrow at 11:00 PDT and I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joined by Jon Skeet himself, who has graciously agreed to … ummm… “help” me by…
Your Skill Repo Awaits
I got a note this week from a developer who grabbed my free skills starter kit, and I've read it about five times now because it describes the exact thing I keep waving my arms about: "I was…
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