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If you're with me on team #CommitsDontMatter, then you might be interested in this Claude hook that just auto-commits after every turn with the title coming from Claude's result and the body containing the originating prompt gist.github.com/searls/841837b0e3ecd0461c292a0d1639a49f

I got sick of trying to figure out the best time to commit code between me and Claude. I simultaneously found bugs in Claude's checkpoint and rewind system. So now I just auto-commit on every turn with the title being whatever claude just said and the body being whatever my prompt was. (I also often want to go back and replay my prompts when Claude fucks up). Requires setting a .claude/auto_commit.json with "enabled" set to `true` · GitHub
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One thing I haven't heard many people talking about is that coding agents can more or less cure RSI after decades of mashing out programs by hand.

Not saying programmers will be remembered as coal miners or 9/11 heroes or anything, but I'm not not saying that.

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Pointed Claude Cowork at two Japanese lease applications in Excel. It asked me a few questions, then filled both perfectly. (Better than I could—when I did the same via Excel for macOS, I broke the lookup formulas.)

Welcome to the identity crisis, fellow office workers!

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Bought a bag of pears 3 weeks ago and they're still hard as rocks. Really looking forward to that 8 hour window next week when they all simultaneously ripen before rotting the following day.

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Breaking Change artwork

v51 - Praise-bomb

Breaking Change

Video of this episode is up on YouTube:

I feel like I'm getting saltier, and it's concerning. If you want me to tone it down and/or up, let me know. It'll go a lot better if you just write to podcast@searls.co instead of yelling at your phone.

As usual, I brought the goods. Now here are the receipts:

One year into living with Tesla Full-Self Driving and: it's good.

The improvement from v13 to v14 is remarkable. Tap Start and it pulls out of the garage, drives you, and parks itself. Another tap and it drives home, opens garage, parks itself. More advanced than people assume.

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How many billions of dollars does Anthropic need to update their apps to preserve newlines on paste? Absolutely bizarre how bad their apps are.

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I'm developing apps for Apple platforms for the first time in 16 years so stop me if this is nuts, but the best feedback loops I've managed are when I've made the Mac build the primary one. No simulator jank. No waiting on devices.

Claude Code doing a better job self-verifying

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PSA: iPhone Air's microphone is located on the left side of the bottom edge of the device, AKA where a right-handed person's pinky would naturally rest when gripping the phone with one hand.

Anyway, that's why all your videos sound like shit. You're holding it wrong.

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One happy accident of the fact that Claude Code Opus 4.6 turns seem to reliably take 3-5 minutes in my experience is that it's proving to be the perfect companion to a strength training workout.

I just write prompts between sets.

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Free idea: hyperbolic_links.

Let users create symbolic links mapped to HTTP resources. Since you can't literally link a file to a URL without changing the actual file system, hyperbolic would centrally handle journaling, cache/etag, updates.

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I just haggled with a chatbot

We ordered a wood chest that arrived with cosmetic damage. After logging the damage in their customer support interface, it prompted me to start a chat with their AI virtual assistant.

What happened next:

  1. It immediately offered me a 15% refund to keep the product
  2. I asked for 20% and it immediately agreed
  3. I asked for 25% and it immediately agreed
  4. I asked for 30% and it turned me down
  5. I took the 25%, which was, indeed, immediately refunded

Turns out that negotiating with a rules engine is way easier than negotiating with a human tasked with operating a rules engine.

So basically, all Wayfair did was add a chatbot to the end of their existing "Report a Problem" interface that will give customers more money if they ask for more money. What a world. 🌍

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