Dave Caplan

former code artisan

[Dave Caplan @davc]

Most frustrating thing I’ve seen today: @intercom website has no login button nor does it even have its own support widget or link to a support page. Maybe I missed it though

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@CanasiensMTL @Wealthsimple Why not IBKR gateway?

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@RiverNotFlowing @PinkPantherInc @AlpacaAurelius @grok Big Chocolate funded this

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@corbett3000 It’s really sad… like who hurt all of those dudes?

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@vibecodejordan That one aged like milk

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What are the best tools people are using these days to teach Python or JS to beginners? VSCode? Jupyter? Replit? GitHub Codespaces? Google Colab? Glitch? I’m thinking short feedback loops, good UX, etc..

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Honestly, traditional visually appealing web design might soon be a thing of the past. We need to start building websites that LLMs like and can quickly navigate. Is it just markdown? Or will web accessibility standards (for screen readers, etc) soon enter the spotlight?

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Ok we get it, AI is cool. But have you tried

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If you ever want to be humbled by AI type /insights into Claude

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I’ve looked inside a few engineering orgs recently. Mostly teams inside traditionally non-technical companies.

What shocked me wasn’t bad code. The code was just fine. Tests fine. CI/CD also just fine.

It was how little structured AI leverage there was.

Everyone dabbling.
No system.
No multiplier.

There reason is obvious and not at all what you might think.

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Gotta get that one last prompt in before bed

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Even if AI takes over the world, at least we’ll still have Valentine’s Day… right?

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@andrewchen Feels oddly optimistic to think the former will still exist in 10 years

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2009: ���First.”
2016: “Fake news.”
2026: “Is this real?”

comments are evolving

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Anyone else’s Claude just get tired at the end of a long day?

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Can you imagine 1609 when Shakespeare dropped Sonnet 5 on the masses
absolutely ruining every other poet overnight

Anthropic 🤝 history repeating itself

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@fmfamaral @gregpr07 Challenge accepted

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Claude Code just added teleport.
You can now build and ship from the toilet.
Society is not ready.

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@iancassel What’s the best way to figure out how good the management team is? Past success? LinkedIn profiles? Knowing someone who knows someone?

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@helderbuilds By the way it definitely understands some market nuance like option trading volume, open interest and other stats. Helps to quickly gather thoughts using real time data, at the very least.

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Who else is vibe coding AI tools for investing? So far I’ve built agents to manage options wheel cycles, rank upcoming biotech catalysts, propose debit spreads and lotto calls for biotechs, and a bunch of other things. Best so far has been the wheel agent but you don’t really need AI for that. Everything else is still as unpredictable as you’d expect.

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Actually my strategy has been mainly automating things that I would want to do myself. Look up option chains, scan SEC filings, look up catalyst dates, clinical trial info, and stuff like that. For wheels I have an agent that screenshots my holdings and then scans a bunch of tickers to tell me if it is a good time to open/close/roll positions. Any interpretation is done when info is gathered and only to summarize or recommend stuff to me. That part has not been reliable especially for the super risky catalyst investments (not surprising)