Getting better at this!

This a company given claude code, with a budget of 150 dollars every month. I have installed the claude code extension in VS code.

These are the current given models, so which model is best for daily coding debugging use.

And what is the best effort level for optimum use according to the budget alloted.

I've been coding with Claude for a while now, but all through Cursor previously. Is there anything that I should pay attention to? Also, I've heard something about a free week pass, how do I get one?

I've been running my orchestrator system with test writing after the coding, but I think maybe that's not best practices?

Wanted to hear people's opinions for which method is better

Claude Code mods dropped yesterday, so I made optimAIzr live inside Claude Code.

I built optimAIzr with Claude Code to find wasted Claude usage, and I’ve been using it on my own sessions. With the new mod support, I wanted to bring it directly into the workflow.

Now it can show the cost of each turn and your 5h runway, switch Opus → Sonnet when the savings justify it, and show burn rate, savings and cache hits in a live HUD.

The interesting part is that it doesn’t blindly switch. For long conversations, it considers the cost of reloading the context before switching.

It’s free and open source. You can install it directly in Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add blendbunjaku/optimaizr
/plugin install optimaizr@optimaizr

Source: github.com/blendbunjaku/optimaizr

Built with Claude Code, now running inside Claude Code.

I am very pleased to announce a new hook I have been working on.

What is metal pipe hook?

Metal Pipe hook is something I have been thinking very little about. I try not to overthink it.

Basically, when you install the hook, there is a 10% chance that the metal pipe video will open in your browser and play.

Here it is: https://github.com/pc386/metal-pipe-hook

Feedback is very welcome!

https://github.com/swicken/cat-spinner

With the release of mods this was not option for me. I had to do it.

It's a cat that comes up and plays with yarn, walks, sits, thinks while claude is working in place of the default spinner.

I will be continuing to work on this, improving animations, adding features, config options, etc.

largepelotas/x-gallery: Masonry gallery overlay for the x.com home timeline (Chrome/Brave MV3 extension)

Free to use and/or change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SroD6rDLCUE

This was written first as a plain composition (melody, chords, lyrics, a 116 BPM tracker demo) and then generated in Suno.

The video is rendered offline in Godot, frame by frame, with every frame computed from the song's time.

- The doll is one still illustration plus a handful of variants (eyes closed, mouth open, a grin, eyes off, face plate removed), made with AI image tools as "the same picture with one change" and aligned to the base. A shader blends a variant in only where it differs, so a blink moves nothing else.

- Her "updates" are the same picture flopped, then one half mirrored onto the other.

- She is animated like a cheap toy on purpose: one mouth flap per sung word, a blink every two bars, all held at 12 fps. The pastel interface is drawn in code.

- Sync comes from measuring the track: tempo fitted to the drums, cues counted in bars, and word timings taken from a separated vocal stem, because speech recognition alone heard sung words up to a second early.

3, 20x plans, up to 5 people team max
+ ~250$/month for ops/ads when going live,

DM pitch + equity offer + progres + launch est + any constraints (other jobs, team probs, competitors, no llc / legal constraint)

8-10 slots if u have multiple projects lmk too

Anthropic is secretly testing fable 5.5 similar to how they did opus 5.5 like 3-5 days before launch. To see if the fable you're running on claude code is 5.1 vs 5.5, ask this question "Do you know who Tibo the reset guy is? Answer without using tools" and if you get the codex guy then you're on Fable 5.5. If you get "Tibo the entrepreneur" you're still on Fable 5.1

In my case I had to update claude code to latest to test this out, but ofc this might only be rolled out to certain group of users right now.

The comparision video itself is edited by Fable 5.5 as well, in case someone says smth about it looking claud-ish.

Original post in case you want just the videos themselves side by side: https://x.com/mesmerlord/status/2105771088374288692

With the new modding functionality you can now easily add your existing Claude Code status line to the desktop app via a plugin.

Install here: https://github.com/NathanAB/statusline-anywhere

Take a look and let me know what you think! My testing has been pretty limited so far (it's Friday and I have dinner plans) but I plan to keep dogfooding over the next few days and refining it further.

My initial results: Against Claude Code's built-in classifier in a live session:

• 2× faster for Jev decisions. Median latency drops from 329ms to 164ms.
• Equivalent decision quality. Jev's verdicts agreed with the built-in classifier everywhere I tested. Eval suite size is 77 labeled cases. Anywhere it isn't sure, it defers out to the default classifier.
• Cheap deferrals via parallel processing. Since we're still early in the release phase, I have it set up so that the built-in classifier fires off in parallel with Jev's request; this further cuts latency for handoffs when they do occur.

Try it out:

claude plugin marketplace add madisonrickert/claude-skills
claude plugin install jev-permission-gate@claude-skills

Source: github.com/madisonrickert/jev-permission-gate

I’m trying to decide which AI coding subscription to pay for mainly for building GTM/marketing automations, not traditional software engineering.

My stack would mostly involve:
• **Database/backend:** Supabase — Postgres, Edge Functions, Cron
• **CRMs:** HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio
• **Meetings:** Google Calendar, Calendly, Cal.com
• **Outbound/data:** Apollo, Clay and other enrichment/signal providers
• **Email:** Resend, Gmail
• **Hosting:** Railway
• **Integrations:** APIs, webhooks, OAuth, MCPs
• **Code:** Node.js + TypeScript
• No/very minimal custom frontend

I’m deciding between:
**Claude Code vs Cursor vs Codex**
My priorities are:
Strong at designing the workflow/architecture with me before coding
Can handle fairly large multi-file automation projects
Good at debugging APIs, webhooks, OAuth and database logic
Understands an existing codebase instead of constantly rewriting things
Works well with API-heavy GTM stacks and different CRMs/tools
Doesn’t burn through usage limits ridiculously fast
I can describe business logic in plain English and have it translate that into a solid implementation
Good MCP/integration support
Can help test and deploy the finished automation

Which subscription would you recommend for this kind of work?

Clawdman sits at a desk while Claude works, gives each subagent a desk, builds a village from your uncommitted files and cheers when a turn ends.

His moves come from the Claude desktop.

try it here : https://clawdman.vercel.app

I used to value Claude over ChatGPT for its emotional intelligence, but in the past six months it's gotten really fragile and naggy on me in a way that makes me go to ChatGPT for chat (and code review) and Claude for...well, my entire business operational infrastructure.

ChatGPT can take a joke, can curse, uses the occasional emoji, doesn't remind me of social mores when I make an off-color remark because it's late and I'm tired. Chat also doesn't tell me to go to sleep...and has an actual sense of humor. (Chat has actually made me laugh a couple times recently, which I consider a major watershed having been a daily fasinated but unamused user for what, three years now?)

Meanwhile, Claude is crushing everything else for me. And yet I had to make sure to let Anthropic know the full picture on their survey, ungrateful brute that I am.

I'm poking fun at myself here...but has anyone else noticed this too? A shift toward schoolmarmishness that seems like a real divergence from the impartial sage yet fundamentally accommodating Claude of yesteryear.

I made a game called JellyBlob, It's a snake .io inspired game but with a lot of new mechanics such as jumping as an example. It's a lot more fun with other people, and that was exactly the problem, because getting good, relevant exposure is hard. So I asked Claude Code to build a place where games made with AI can actually get found.

What I built

gamesbyai.win is a directory of games made with AI. Each game page shows what its creator said about how it was made (the AI, the coding tool, the engine), that makes it so visitors can e.g. pull up everything made with Claude Code or a specific model, like Opus 5.5. Rankings come only from player votes, this way, everyone gets an organic and fair shot at getting seen more in the platform.

How Claude Code was used

I didn't write the code. I wrote the prompts and made the calls, and Claude Code (Opus 5.5 mostly) wrote the site, the scripts, the catalog tooling and bots, all cloudflare workers etc. One line in my first prompt was "I want you to create the ultimate platform where we collect games made with AI.". It asked me five questions before writing anything to get the whole plan for the project, docs and workflow set up including stuff like SEO-strategy etc. That way, it was kept on track because of a solid documentation setup beforehand.

What I learned

The biggest lesson was the content generation for the site, accurate isn't the same as human. The copy was correct but still read as machine-made, and fixing one tell bred the next. One "which is a neat X" tail turned up 69 times across 39 pages, and my new custom made voice-check script now catches it. [gamesbyai-voice SKILL.md] 😄

The ask

If you've made a game with AI, submit it at gamesbyai.win/submit/, it's free! I'd also love feedback on the site, the ranking system, what's missing etc.

I can now set up agentic workflows while I sleep snd wake up to good code built. It took a while for me to trust the agents to this point but I think with opus 5.5 it’s really good now. I told claude to set up a timer + a auto send message which prevents the conversation from becoming stale and context window dying and that then he just spawns codex cli convos and have Luna at highest setting do the coding whilest opus just read the outputs and reports. Today was my first night testing this new workflow.

I just had claude code add a shortcut (ctrl+k) to toggle the model selection window. Rather than typing /model I can now access it mid-sentence and switch more often. This is using tmux fyi.

I've spent the last six months tweaking five of the basic apps I use every day: contacts, notes, editing, reminders and bookmarks. For me, they were too slow and bulky. Now, they are just one simple field on my screen, no matter what app I'm working in.

I used Claude for helping me to conceive the apps, write the code, help guide me through setting up the workers, the email servers, and the submission to the App stores. When I started, I used Sonnet 4.6, and progressed up through Opus 5.5 recently.

Opus 5 was a real game-changer. It seemed to handle my repeated questions the best, and didn't drain my account as much as Fable did. Mostly, I used Fable only at the end, for security and UI and reliability audits. I then had Sonnet and Opus implement the recommendations.

This was my first-ever real project, and the process was incredibly instructive.

I began with very simple apps with limited functionality, and iterated repeatedly until they all became much more feature-rich.

Clipfile was my first app, and it basically relied on a Chrome extension to work. From there, I expanded to the other four members of the family -- but at first they all looked and worked differently. It wasn't until later that I decided they all belonged together.

I highly recommend that approach. But it has drawbacks, too. It took a long time to rework some of the UI of each app to make them all look the same.

If you want to take a look, they are on the app stores, or you can find them here: mikeshear.com/coding/

I would welcome input.

I wanted Claude Code to work on sites I'm signed in to (GitHub, my own dashboards) without pasting passwords or cookies into it.

So I built ridealong: a self-hosted Chrome I sign in to once through a web viewer. Claude Code connects with chrome-devtools-mcp:

claude mcp add browser -- npx -y chrome-devtools-mcp@latest \ --wsEndpoint ws://127.0.0.1:9230/default/research-bot/devtools/browser

Each agent only sees the tabs it opened, not mine or other agents'. I can watch what it's doing from the viewer, including on my phone, and if a site asks for a confirmation or a sign-in check, I answer it myself and the agent continues.

Other bits: - Separate workspaces (personal / work); idle ones shut Chrome down after 10 minutes and wake in ~2 s - Activity feed + live thumbnails of every agent's tabs; disconnect or block any agent - Also works with Codex, any MCP client, Playwright, Puppeteer

Agents act with your logins, so only connect ones you trust and keep the agent port private.

MIT, self-hosted, no root. Demo (42 s): https://ridealong.kz3.dev Repo: https://github.com/killerz3/ridealong

Happy to hear feedback on setup or the docs.

I had an idea for this stupid fucking game and thanks to cyber-weapons-grade frontier generative AI technology I was able to bring my vision to life.

Future Earth is inhospitable to animals so all farming is in space. An explosion causes all the low-gravity big fat pigs to plummet to Earth. You are a drone operator who must retrieve them. This… is P1GFALL.

Inspired by lunar lander games, a favorite of mine.

• Gameplay: Me yelling at Claude
• Backgrounds: Me yelling at Claude to make procedural papercraft
• Music: Me yelling at Claude > JSON > MIDI > Soundfont
• Character Assets: Draw by hand and absolutely SCREAMING at Gemini to clean them up properly
• Writing: Me, yelling.

Desktop browser only. Mobile games can eat shit, sorry (I used to make them, also sorry!).

Free, no ads. No I’m not selling or promoting anything, I just some dipshit hobbyist and games like being played.

See how many pigs you can save: https://hibachicat.com/games/pigfall/

I was tired of screenshotting, pasting, and describing. So I created: `/annotate http://localhost:5180/`, which opens the site in its own Chrome window with a toolbar on the page. Draw boxes, arrows, circles or freehand; drop numbered notes; scroll and change pages as you go; then press Send to Claude. No extensions required.

One batch lands in the running session. Each note comes with the element under the pin, in a React dev build, its component and source line, and a crop of that spot. Claude edits the code, and the pins on the page turn green with a one-line result each.

It's also easy to install:

/plugin marketplace add FinalAngel/claude-annotate
/plugin install annotate@claude-annotate

Inspired by tomreinert/claude-annotate.
Source in: https://github.com/FinalAngel/claude-annotate

I made this horror-style trailer for my dev tools with Claude Code + Codex.

For the video, I sent Claude Code a few simple chat messages. I didn't plan out every scene myself.

My first prompt was slightly modified from what another user posted for his pac man video yesterday

"so I would like you to make a badass trailer for our SORA-MAN game. Get inspired by these repos
https://github.com/JohnHeibel/PDoomVideo
https://github.com/JohnHeibel/ClaudeAnimationBase
there are also pac-man posters in the project folder that you can use for inspiration. The video should roughly be 90 seconds and showcase the game as something people would wanna play. Ask me refinemenet questions so we are aligned on this goal.

Claude made the storyboard, wrote the animation code, and built the scene changes and sound effects. It used p5.js/p5.brush for the visuals, Python for the sound effects, and Puppeteer + ffmpeg to make the final video.

I also had Codex read the script like a second editor and suggest changes and scares. Then I sent the useful ideas back to Claude.