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"I use Claude every day now to do all sorts of things that are just not related to coding at all and just to do it automatically."
"I just find Codex and Claude are so good at actually giving you ideas for what to build. I'm just like, what should I do to make this better? And it's like, here's 10 ideas."
"I manage context windows even more efficiently by sectioning off which tasks go to which agent"
"The tools like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, they take that step for you. They can generate the code and then they can run the code themselves and see if it works"
"One was the first thing I wrote on the this is like the first thing I wrote on the internet did very well is this post on what I learned at Airbnb like Medium featured. It went all over the place."
"I've become a huge I have a Tesla and the self I just use self-driving all the time now."
"So I decided I'm going to move to Substack. I'm gonna write every week I tweeted I'm going to experiment with a newsletter, weekly newsletter, see how it goes."
"that was the during AdWords when Google Adwords was a way to monetize your site and so all the ads on the site because most of the articles were about religion were all these religious dating sites."
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"My co-course teacher, Zach, and I have built the entire course in Claude Code."
"I just find Codex and Claude are so good at actually giving you ideas for what to build."
"I use Claude every day now to do all sorts of things that are just not related to coding at all and just to do it automatically."
"we use Figma a ton"
"We use Workday"
"Slack is like a it's a it's a whole maze. There's so many things that play out on Slack"
"The tools like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, they take that step for you. They can generate the code and then they can run the code themselves and see if it works"
"100% of my code is written by Claude Code. I have not edited a single line by hand since November."
"It used to be you just chat GPT for some code and it would spit out some code"
"The tools like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, they take that step for you. They can generate the code and then they can run the code themselves and see if it works"
"I just find Codex and Claude are so good at actually giving you ideas for what to build. I'm just like, what should I do to make this better? And it's like, here's 10 ideas."
"I can fire up like four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems and by 11:00 a.m. I am wiped out for the day"
"You can go into the code, open up deep wiki, and ask, how does it schedule tasks? What's the security?"
"I manage context windows even more efficiently by sectioning off which tasks go to which agent"
"Check it out. I'm a convert open."
"The first thing I wrote on the internet did very well is this post on what I learned at Airbnb. Like Medium featured it. It went all over the place."
"One was the first thing I wrote on the this is like the first thing I wrote on the internet did very well is this post on what I learned at Airbnb like Medium featured. It went all over the place."
"that was the during AdWords when Google Adwords was a way to monetize your site and so all the ads on the site because most of the articles were about religion were all these religious dating sites."
"That was actually pretty transformative. I took this online course at University of Pennsylvania about uh the psychology of happiness and it was basically all the science of what makes you happier and how to be happier and that really had a big impact on me"
"So I decided I'm going to move to Substack. I'm gonna write every week I tweeted I'm going to experiment with a newsletter, weekly newsletter, see how it goes."
"I've become a huge I have a Tesla and the self I just use self-driving all the time now."
"I was still using Cursor for most of my code."