Anthony Garand

Christian, husband, father of three, and product designer. Currently building apps at @towbook.

[Wouter de Bres @WdeB]

You shipped a better design. Users hated it anyway.

That’s not irrational. A redesign is a loss to someone who had the old one memorised. Losses always hit harder than gains feel good.

[Anthony Garand @garand]

Dictating prompts is underrated. But I don't feel comfortable doing it in our open office layout.

[Anthony Garand @garand]

@flyosity This was such a fun era. Lots of nostalgia in these photos.

[Anthony Garand @garand]

@jjcook9628 Paging @cameronmoll

[Anthony Garand @garand]

@theo @adityawaslost Do you feel that the models themselves are good but the company, cli, desktop app has regressed, or all of it?

[Anthony Garand @garand]

@Magnificode I’ll check it out!

[Anthony Garand @garand]

You're not wrong, but I will say the "marketing" does bleed into the ability to design (and at least prototype) better UI's than Codex IMO. Every time I have Codex build a settings page or UI for something it's so bad, and I ask Claude to make it better and it is, at least visually, an improvement.

[Anthony Garand @garand]

@tannerlinsley Curious to hear about how you set it up and what things you install. I always find new setups refreshing and an opportunity to re-evaluate tools and apps.

[Anthony Garand @garand]

@thdxr 🙏 Thank you!

[Anthony Garand @garand]

@thekitze I did it for like 7.5 days once

[Anthony Garand @garand]

We have an enormous amount of tools to use AI with, I care less about hearing about the next cool one and more about seeing how respected devs are using the ones that exist successfully. Learning a lot in this process. Thanks @jnunemaker for sharing your insights.

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

AI/Conductor update: I have ~30 workspaces at any given time. I only actively work on 2-5 and use pins to track top priorities (5-10).

I try to keep repos flipped closed and focus on pins. Wish I could actually entirely hide repo list most of the time AND that it was easier to create a new workspace for any repo and insta pin it as that is my flow now.

Performance has been pretty fine using it in this way.

I turn steer mode on. That was one of the last things that I missed in vanilla claude code.

Edit mode makes it easy to see whole file which was main reason I still opened an editor on occasion.

I use gstack for anything substantial (/office-hours, /plan-eng-review, /qa and the agent browser are my fav).

Only using superset for quick updates to main where I don't want all the ceremony of review, pull request, etc. that conductor forces.

I have a 20x claude and 5x codex. I use claude opus 4.7 as main driver. codex for review. Sometimes codex for review fixes and for any problem claude is having an issue with (rare).

I'm spending more time finding ways to get more verification before things need my attention. I do a lot more simplify this code and explain all the network calls to me and how they can be reduced/improved before I really look at anything. But I still look at data model hard, general interactions lightly and don't look at UI code. 🤣

[Anthony Garand @garand]

@jnunemaker I almost messaged you earlier today asking how your Conductor use was going! Appreciate the update.

[Anthony Garand @garand]

I almost got phished. I'm usually VERY good about catching these emails, this one slipped by. @1Password Thank you for this feature. 😅

[Anthony Garand @garand]

@steve_tenuto THIS. I don’t know why it’s not more popular.

[Anthony Garand @garand]

@iamdavidhill 3-6 across 1-4 projects (repos or branches within one repo)

[Anthony Garand @garand]

@thekitze @shadcn Supermac – The everything app

[Anthony Garand @garand]

@aarondfrancis Will do. Might take me a day or so to get to, but I'll send something over

[Anthony Garand @garand]

@aarondfrancis Are you open to Solo feedback around mcp/orchestration flow/tasks/etc? Just trying it out for the first time today and it's incredible, but have some pain points that I would think are generally applicable to most newcomers. Happy to try to summarize it in text or make a video or something for you (or even have a call).

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Bragging about how much software you’re shipping with AI is like holding down the shutter button and bragging about how many photos you took.