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SIG·43 2026.09.23 Stop saying no, just build it I went to Costco twice yesterday, three times total in the last two days. I help my friend run big supply runs and deliveries for cargo ships here in Honolulu 4 min

SIG·42 2026.09.15 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. 9 min

SIG·41 2026.08.21 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 3 min

SIG·40 2026.08.18 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 4 min

SIG·39 2026.08.07 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 3 min

SIG·38 2026.07.22 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 3 min

SIG·37 2026.07.13 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 4 min

SIG·36 2026.07.07 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 6 min

SIG·35 2026.06.22 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 4 min

SIG·34 2026.06.19 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 3 min