The Boring Developer

Building AI tools that do boring work. Claude Code, SEO, Automation, Agents. Sharing what works and what doesn't.

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@ksohit agreed.. the dependency graph tells you what's connected, the context layer tells you what matters. you need both or the scope is still wrong

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@nirav_29p yeah scoping the context works.. trim the .md files claude actually needs per session rather than loading the whole project every time. makes a big difference

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@oldstackjournal consistency of signal matters more than the size of it. weekly is already not random

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genuine question for solo founders: at what point did your first 10 users stop feeling like an accident?

not when you hit 10. after. when you believed someone was choosing you, not stumbling across you.

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@Ingeniousife @AbrahamAlba10 the hard things self-select for people who care enough. the ones who stay through the awkward phase usually do

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@sebuzdugan agent isolation is still designed for crashes, not for content that wants to spread

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@sequentanalyst that's a perfect use case.. recurring fee, personal context the generic app never has, and you actually care about getting it right

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@0x3Matt have you tried this in practice yet? curious how it handles context across sessions.. whether it shares state or just messaging

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@VishnuJ2303 the question isn't "can it do this" anymore. it's "will someone actually use it when it can"

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@GameCharacterAI this is the actual use case. not startups.. just people who got tired of a tool not working and stopped accepting it

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@Voranofficial limits that reset every 5 hours are fine for people who plan. they're brutal for anyone mid-session on something complex

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@itskamrankhan claude code.. not because it's the smartest in isolation but because it actually reads the codebase before touching it

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@Premarcu_ "check what they knocked over" is the most honest description of agentic morning routines I've read

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@obussmann frontier capability and frontier pricing power are different products. the people using claude code daily aren't switching.. the people running batch jobs are

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@Crownzdesigns the "I needed this so I built it in an afternoon" arc is the best Claude Code ad there is

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everyone's talking about how fast AI can generate code

nobody's talking about how much faster the review queue needs to get for that to actually help

you can vibe code your way into a backlog just as easily as a deadline

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how I used to write prompts for a coding session:
- describe the whole feature
- describe the edge cases
- describe what not to do
- add examples

now:
- write a spec file before I open Claude
- one task per session

the difference: actually finishing things

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@kamilkwapiszpl yeah the "add AI to the existing mess" pitch is the easy sell. the redesign question is harder to get a yes on but it's the only one that actually changes anything

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@PatrickOjo_ the audit trail problem is the hard one. git history made sense when each commit was a human decision. when an agent commits 500 times, what's the unit of review?

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@AnuragSDE what the signal rate ends up looking like ? my guess is it's the lowest of anything on that list