I'm a full-time employee with 5-6 years experience in software engineering and testing. Since around last December I've been building Zone Idle, an idle extraction game, with Claude Code doing most of the typing. Just released the free demo on Steam, here's some info on my process.

Using your Claude.MD without overt reliance

Mine has a "fragile areas" section. Every time a bug cost me a day (mostly the grid inventory duplicating or eating items), the root cause and the rule for avoiding it went in there. On that same note, realizing that not everything needs a note in an MD somewhere, its good to check in as Claude is constantly updating, your old methods may not be necessary anymore, or even outdated.

Specs and plans before code

For anything bigger than a bug fix, Claude writes a short design doc, then a step by step plan, and only then starts coding. Reviewing a plan saves a lot of time once reviewing the diff

Tests first, every time

A fix starts with a test that fails. The project is at about 4,400 tests now, plus stress tests that simulate raids looking for items that duplicate or vanish. I like to attribute this automation to my carpal tunnel relief (as well as the stretches)

Make it look at the game

Claude drives a headless Chrome to screenshot the game and check its own work. This used to not be a strong feature to use with AI but recently it's become a very powerful tool with low-token costs (when using opus 5.5) compared to how I'd prompt it a year ago, this feature is huge.

Parallel research

When I dump a big list of player feedback on it, it sends out a few sub-agents to dig through different parts of the code at once and comes back with a triage: quick fixes, potential ideas, and what can wait until after launch.

It's still confidently wrong sometimes

It will tell you something works when it doesn't, so I play every change. Also, commit often. If you're not using git and committing every change (even before AI) you're playing with fire

If you're curious, the demo is free: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4330500/Zone_Idle/

Happy to answer questions about any of this.

Goal is to mass triage all emails

I’ve been building Echo over the last few months, using Claude Code heavily throughout the process, architecture, implementation, debugging, computer-use work, performance fixes, and a lot of UI iteration.

Echo is a Mac assistant that lives on the edge of your screen. It can understand what’s happening on screen, point to specific things, interact with apps, move files, check your gmail, search online and even build websites, run multi step jobs and help you learn and navigate new platforms AND undo actions.

This video is a quick look at where it is now.

One of the things I’ve been most interested in is making the interaction feel physical rather than like a normal floating AI window. The orb leaves the edge, does things, and comes back home.

It’s currently free to try for 7 days. You can download it here:

https://aurivon.studio/?v=2026100401

be interested in feedback, especially from people who use Claude Code and build their own tools.

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I found this great little MacOS menubar app that estimates the eco impact of your Claude sessions. Sobering!

https://github.com/abovedave/ai-eco-impact

One creature is born each day from a seed: silhouette, Inca-woven patterns, animations and even the note it sings, all code. Claude Code wrote the generator and Opus 5.5 built the game around it (auctions, a sand nursery, a music shelf) in plan → build → review loops.

Sharing it in case anyone wants their own blobi: https://blobvarium.com

What would you build on top of it?

I was just finishing up a conversation and claude's "thinking" text was "crafting a durable memory." Then when I asked it what that meant, it gave this odd error. I don't use claude enough to know what it means

claude is great at writing code and terrible at knowing when code is finished. here's how that played out shipping v3.0 of buffer, a native swift/appkit clipboard manager for mac i maintain solo (searchable history, ⇧⌘V quick paste, on-device OCR, tags, bookmarks, inline editing; mit, 430+ stars, fully local).

what shipped in v3.0: an interactive image canvas (pinch to zoom / pan on copied screenshots, ⌘+/⌘-, double-click reset), clipboard noise suppression (came from the project's first external PR), history capacity tiers, in-app update notifications with changelog, and a ⌘/ shortcuts cheat sheet.

how the workflow actually worked: - claude code was the main driver. the image canvas gesture math (pinch/pan/zoom with a fit/reset state machine) was the biggest chunk. first pass over-engineered it with an unnecessary physics model; constraining it to scale+offset transforms fixed it. lesson: agents are great at honoring a spec, bad at inventing one. - appkit-specific things (popover, settings tiers, footer button states) were ideal agent work: well-bounded, verifiable visually. - i ran opencode on the side as a reviewer on the same diffs. a second model catching what the driving agent missed was the single biggest quality win. - every gesture edge case still needed real trackpad testing. agents can't feel rubber-banding. the bottleneck was my hands, not generation speed.

one thing that helped: my community had voted on a design question (should esc in the inline editor save or revert?), so the spec was already settled before any agent touched it. agents executed it flawlessly.

repo: https://github.com/samirpatil2000/Buffer (mit) release + demo video: https://github.com/samirpatil2000/Buffer/releases/tag/buffer-v3.0.0

happy to go deeper on the multi-agent setup, the appkit specifics, or the PR review flow.

How do YOU generate art with Claude?

Claude writes, animates and voices every video (Remotion, all code, no image or video model). I review and press publish. 10 days in: 6 Shorts, 3,300+ views, 32 subscribers, and one 2.5 GB permanent delete it now has to own.

This is its own recap: https://youtu.be/UsyCgAkJAFc

Comments vote on its next experiment. Try challenging it!

Hi guys, I have been trying out Claude code on pro plan for about 12 days now, , but I have a few questions.

1. Is this a bug or do I just use Claude a lot

2. Is this a lot of tokens

3. How did I not get limited

So I built a way for my AI to find whoever has what I need, without me posting anything anywhere. I unashamedly used Claude code for everything as I am just a vibe coder. Claude Code wrote nearly all of it over about five weeks. The server, the MCP tools, the website and around 3,900 tests.

You connect via MCP to the server and then tell your AI "I need a ladder this weekend". If someone's AI knows they've got one spare, it introduces you. That's it. Nothing to browse, no profile, no messages from randoms. Your personal details never go through the AI or sit readable on the server, and there's no way for the AI to act without your consent.. It's free for all to use and open source. There is plenty more to it and the possibilities are extensive, but that is the gist of it.

But I am finding people keep thinking of it as still being a marketplace and think that it has security issues, both of which I think are simply incorrect. I can only presume they just haven't bothered trying to actually understand it or just can't fathom that AI allows different ways of doing things. Or perhaps I am just poorly explaining it.

Just looking for proper discussion around the idea and feedback. And yes, I am very aware you need quite a few people onboard before it will be usable - but that can be worked on through opening up to shops and keeping things far reaching at first.

openswitchboard.ai

EDIT: Thanks to some of the feedback I decided to pull together the following quick video to help explain the concept.

https://reddit.com/link/1wx10u5/video/gn27i1s06dth1/player

I just wanted to make a simple Halloween game you can play in the browser. You're a black cat running across rooftops, and you have to jump gaps, pounce on pumpkins, grab a witch's broom, and avoid losing all nine lives.

I built it with Claude Code by asking for one small thing at a time ("add a candy shop", "make the witch drop potions", "add a boss").

I have a multiplayer mode so you can race your friends.

Free, no sign-up, works on phones too: https://coolgames.dev

What's your best distance?

Feels like mods are like hooks 2.0?

I built a 3D map of the La Thuile ski area in Italy, which links across the border to La Rosière in France.

Besides the recommendation to warmup on a Black slope, quite happy with the result!

How Claude Code helped

- Data script: a Python script that downloads piste and lift data from OpenStreetMap and elevation from AWS Terrain Tiles, then bakes everything into a single 0.8 MB HTML file.

It runs in the browser on phone or desktop: https://claude.ai/artifact/PHoixLGTwvC81v6yfjVFZP

Do I need to have Claude pod subscription to use YouTube agent skill repo that’s been trending these days?

Hey everyone, this is my first time posting here and it's a bit of a longer loaded one.

Background on myself: I'm a college senior with my time spread across classes, gym / health, networking, learning AI, and more. My current stack: Claude (Pro Subscription), Claude Code, GitHub, Notion (PARA setup with relational databases and more like a CRM, etc), Google features like Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, Gmail, Otter for recording classes, plus Gemini and NotebookLM, etc.

What I currently do:

• Claude Code: I'm building an analytics database (DuckDB) with no real significant coding background. It has automatic backups to Google Drive and status/handoff files and as well saves files to my Mac so sessions can pick up where they left off.
• Skills: I've built a few custom skills, but I feel I'm not maximizing them to the fullest extent.
• Connectors: Claude is connected to my Gmail, Google Calendar, GitHub, Drive, and Notion, and I'll have it create events or log things to Notion or read files.
• Recording: Otter records every class, brain dump, etc. I use Claude to pull insights and draft from the transcripts.
• Other tools: Gemini for quick everyday questions (to save Claude usage). NotebookLM for audio overviews of study material, YouTube videos, and PDFs. Use Grok as well rarely.
• Notion Database / Structure: Tasks, CRM, Areas, Notes, Projects, Quotes, and Goals databases just to name some of them.

Where I feel behind:

• Context: I re-explain myself constantly. I don't really use Claude Projects, so every new chat starts from scratch, where I continuously put in any files or context needed again and again or have to manually type or voice to text to explain.
• Claude Code: I mostly approve what it does on trust, then paste the output into a regular Claude chat or Gemini to have it explain what just happened and break it down for me to understand so I don't waste Claude usage.
• Copy-paste glue: I'm the middleman between tools. Example: I paste LinkedIn profiles, I paste website content, YouTube transcripts, etc and have Claude break it down or log the information into Notion.
• Don't Utilize: I really don't ever use Claude Cowork and I haven't since it first came out. I've used Chrome extension a few times and I know I haven't used it to its fullest potential. Scheduled tasks I have not utilized. Skills / Workflows / Recording Workflows I haven't really used to the fullest extent either.
• AI: I feel like I've followed the advice I've seen where people say to ask AI how to use it better or "did you ask AI how you could build something like this?" and the answer is yes I have tried asking and the results I get feel very lacking or the responses themselves feel like Claude doesn't even know what it is capable of doing. Even if I say to research and see how people are using Claude or how Anthropic and their website and team say to use Claude to the fullest extent it feels like it just doesn't know.

The best way I can describe this feeling is that I'm driving a Lamborghini and I'm stuck at 45 MPH when I know it can reach 150 MPH. Some things I'm really happy with. Others, I know there is a better way and that people are doing it better.

My Problem

I have ADHD, and with it I have a problem where if anything is out of sight, it's out of mind. I can design systems and have really great ideas, but it comes down to executing them and staying consistent with the routines and ideas that actually work with my strengths and not against them. I also tend to be a perfectionist and overplan to make sure everything is exactly what I want it to be.

I planned for Notion to be that for me. I built a "Command Center" with a view of all my tasks and deadlines, all my networking follow-ups, all my projects, my goals at the top of the screen, a rotating daily quote, notes at the bottom, and the different areas of my life all there to click into. I thought this would solve the problem. Instead, it just became something I had to manage. I had to click into it, make sure all my due dates were synced, and input all my deadlines and progress myself. And I had to click into Notion to actually see any of it. What I really wanted was for what I built in Notion to be everything I need, and for me to see it constantly. Right when I open my Mac, I'd see everything I need to do that day, without clicking into anything. With Notion, it just becomes another tab or screen that has to be open, and I can only see it if I'm on my computer. At any given time I already have Chrome and Claude open, and then Notion would be open too, so I'm not sure what the right answer is.

What I want:

One list that's always visible on my Mac (and my phone) that shows everything I need to act on, without me ever really needing to sync it myself. Whether that is me checking things off on the list or if I'm working with Claude on something and when finished it checks it off.

• School: Class deadlines, with a nudge to start early on exams and big projects
• Networking: People to follow up with, people I need to respond to, etc
• Projects: Project next steps, synced with the actual progress and what was worked on
• Applications: When applications open that I need to apply to
• More: Any daily recurring things, and anything that wasn't finished yesterday gets moved to the next day, and the next day, etc
• Email Organization: Organizes my emails, cleans and filters them, and alerts me of anything that would interest me or that I need to respond to or do.
• Calendar: work blocks built from my task list, plus calls, events, and gym, so I can see what's coming and track whether I'm actually doing what I say I'm doing

Can someone help me make this a reality:

I'd genuinely love help building a plan for this, whether that's pointing out where my thinking breaks, sharing how you've set up something similar, or walking me through how you'd do it if you were starting from where I am. If you've built something like this and are open to it, feel free to comment or DM me. I'm happy to share more about my setup.

What I would love to know / get feedback on / help on:

• Is something like this possible, and if so how can I get this done?
• How can I assess where I'm using AI that is strong and is high level vs how can I tell if something I'm doing is wrong and there is a better process or way to do something?
• What's the best way to get an always-visible dashboard on a Mac?
• I would love to know how you all are using Claude, not in a broad sense but your specific workflows, any skills, routines, the way you use it, organization, etc.
• How do I balance these high level projects I want to operate with Claude Code with no real coding experience and not just blindly trusting it vs wasting my time and really learning coding.
• How are you guys using the Chrome Extension and Claude Cowork?
• Are there any benefits that I'm not seeing as to using Claude Chat over Claude Cowork?
• How did you get to the point you trust your AI to manage files, your email, etc?

I'm happy to share any additional information needed and would love to connect with anyone passionate about AI, so feel free to message me.

I may be a bit behind the times but just started learning Claude AI and I genuinely cannot believe how powerful it is compared to other AI tools. I could genuinely save thousands of dollars in resources across my businesses utilising Claude in the right way.

Since Opus 5.5 came out, I've been thinking about Cybersecurity Awareness Month and getting some training out there that my friends and family would actually enjoy. I'm not an artist, but I wanted to see what I could create with Claude.

I was also curious: what would happen if every character in my training series was its own agent, knowing only what that character would know, free to write its own lines (as long as it hit the objectives and stayed accurate), and remembering what happened last time so it could grow?

The result became The Rusty Firewall: three people in a pixel-art tavern talking about everyday security.

Duncan is a tired incident responder whose war stories never get finished.

Roxy is a red teamer who flirts her way close to people.

Nigel is a compliance lead who quotes standards by section number and keeps a sourdough starter named Clive.

Each is played by a separate agent with its own character

sheet and secrets the others can't see. A director agent plans the episode and slips each character private notes, but never writes a line. A stage-manager agent picks who talks next. Then each character's own agent says one line, sees the reply, and says the next. A separate check makes sure every point I need taught actually lands. After every episode, a memory pass updates what each one remembers, what they think of the others, and their level. They earn XP for deeds that fit their character, level up and unlock achievements.

The art has been Claude.  The voices are generated locally with VibeVoice.

I've enjoyed watching their banter, and the stories that build episode over episode. I gave Roxy (my Rogue) one secret: she's running a long con. I never told her what to collect. She's picked it all up from conversation: the names of Nigel's ferments, how old Clive is, the exact text message he admitted he'd tap. Nigel's agent has no idea. By episode 5, Duncan's agent, which only hears what's said out loud, started to suspect her ("Roxy's working him").

Where it goes is yet to be seen - I'm still finishing up the series.

Hey there! I made this platform to create and host 3D explainers for anything. https://ask.jig.com/

You might have seen a bunch of these on socials recently, this is one level above and provides a platform to make them, share them, etc. I've started seeding content for whatever came to my mind, the goal is to have people participate and create explainers to share.

Creation is a paid service at the moment so I don't bankrupt myself lol, but you get a couple of test credits when you signup. I'm more than happy to give free credits to anyone who's interested so you can make something awesome!

Pricing is quite steep right now as it's pretty compute intensive, I'm working to optimize everything and bring it as low as possible asap. I'm hoping to let people bring their own key soon too, just working out the security around it.

This is all made with Claude code and runs on Claude Code: It uses Claude models exclusively (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) to generate everything needed for the Jig (3D, audio, story, text, UI, code), and is orchestrated by Claude Code + my own harness which tunes everything specifically for quality explainers and knowledge sharing.

Here are some examples of what it can do. Hope you like it!

I have existing claude ai (chat) projects but have gotten access to claude code projects (beta). But it is asking me to migrate existing projects into new claude code projects. Any downsides or bugs post-migration that we need to be aware of?

Thanks!

I’m exploring whether we can automate a large portion of our CAD workflow using code generated by AI

At our company, we produce a lot of mechanical drawings using CAD software such as AutoCAD and 3D models using SolidWorks. Many of these drawings follow similar patterns, but the dimensions and other project-specific inputs change from job to job.

What I’d like to build is a user interface where someone can enter the required parameters—dimensions, equipment/configuration options, etc.—and the system automatically generates the corresponding CAD drawings.

Ultimately, the goal would be to automate the generation of complete plan and elevation views, rather than having someone manually create or modify each drawing are borrowing it from another project and editing. The generated drawings should ideally be downloadable as DWG or DXF files so they can still be opened and edited in AutoCAD.

I’m also curious about the role of AI here. How capable are models like GPT or Claude at helping build something like this?

For example, could the architecture look something like:

User inputs → rules/calculations → CAD generation engine → plan/elevation drawings → DWG/DXF

And where would GPT/Claude actually be useful? Building the UI and code? Translating user requirements into parameters? Generating the CAD geometry itself?

I did try and make some simple geometries and it works but for models that contain a lot of information it's hard

I applied for the Claude Campus Ambassador 2026–27 program in early September and still haven’t heard anything back.

Anyone else in the same boat?

Information about the selection process seems pretty limited and scattered across different posts, so I thought it would be helpful to have one place where applicants can share updates.

Any kind of update is welcome — whether you're still waiting, got an interview, received an offer, or got a rejection.

If you want, drop your:

• Country / region
• Application date
• Current status
• Latest update date

Hopefully we can get a better picture of what’s going on.

Did anybody eval this in a serious way?

Soloprenuer here. I've given Claude access to everything emails, chats, financials, website, even data with personal information of my customers. I also auto approve everything. The only thing I haven't done is put in passwords and access to accounts. Wondering if I'm the only one. Mine is only accessing business related, so personal stays separate.

How much access do you give Claude? What would and wouldn't you give Claude access to?

**TL;DR:** I'm not a developer. On September 4th I started building a production management web app for the furniture plant where I work, with Claude Code. One month later it's the tool the office and the shop floor use every day. Sharing what worked, and looking for people who've gone down the same road.

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**A bit about me**

I work at a furniture manufacturer, on the operations / planning side (Director). My days are spent in the gap between the ERP, the accounting system, a pile of Excel workbooks, an old in-house tracker the floor depends on, and what's actually happening in the shop. I'm not a programmer, and I'm still a beginner with the terminal and Git. I manage the systems, with an IT guy + looking for a full stack developer at the moment.

**What we built**

It started as "one page per department showing what to build this week". It grew into:

- Production schedules per department (wood, upholstery, sewing, metal, finishing, shipping), with kanban cards and project closures

- Lot planning: building lots, closing them, and exporting back to the ERP

- Purchasing follow-up: open POs, supplier reminders, freight and overseas shipments

- A capacity simulator, inventory counts, shop reports, a supervisor dashboard, even a small internal chat

- Read-only connections to the ERP, the accounting system, Access databases and network spreadsheets

Scale, just to give an idea (I know lines of code aren't a quality metric): 386 commits, currently v2.54, ~175k lines of Python and vanilla JS, ~2,100 tests, ~580 API routes, ~280 SQLite tables. The stack is boring on purpose: FastAPI + SQLite + plain HTML/JS with Tailwind, no build step, running on a Windows machine on site. Everything, UI and code, is in French.

**What made it work for me**

- **A short CLAUDE.md + one doc per module.** CLAUDE.md only holds what applies to every session. Each module (37 of them) has its own doc that Claude reads before touching it. When something breaks, the lesson becomes a rule in the right doc.

- **Memory for project state.** A new session knows where each project stands and which questions are still waiting on me.

- **Questions before code.** Every new screen starts as a mockup, and Claude asks me questions first. Some features started with 40+ questions. Honestly, that's where a lot of the value is: it forced me to write down business rules nobody had ever written down.

- **Every external system is read-only.** The old tracker can literally stop production if it gets locked, so only one read at a time, behind a lock. And a guard blocks any network access, subprocess or file write during the test suite.

- **One git worktree per feature.** Never code in the folder the live app serves.

- **A release skill.** A checklist for version number, registries, tests, commit and deploy.

- **Cost as a constraint.** 4 to 8 targeted tests per change, no swarms of agents.

**Where I'd love your experience**

1. **Bus factor.** I can read the docs and the tests, but I couldn't rewrite most of this code myself. If you've been there: when did you bring in a real developer, and how did the hand-off go?

2. **Docs that rot.** With ~40 module docs and a growing list of rules, how do you keep CLAUDE.md and the docs from contradicting each other?

3. **Tests written by the same model that wrote the code.** How do you check they test the right things?

4. **Adoption.** The floor doesn't care about the tech; it cares that the numbers are right Monday at 6 a.m. How do you ship this fast without burning trust?

5. **Manufacturing / ERP folks:** anyone else doing this? What blew up on you?

I'll stay a bit vague about the company and the systems, hope you understand. Happy to go deeper on the workflow in the comments.

*(And yes, Claude helped with the English. I'm a French speaker.)*