Steps to become a senior programmer:
1. Install my /teach skill
npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill teach
2. Create a new working directory on your laptop
mkdir junior-to-senior
cd junior-to-senior
3. Kick off your coding agent in the directory
claude
4. Copy this prompt
/teach me how to be a great strategic programmer. My opinion is that AI is eating 'tactical, on-the-ground' programming. The day-to-day work of a developer involves not only coding, but also planning, QA, codebase design, and much more. I'm interested in learning the strategic skills - that, in a previous era, would take me from junior to senior - but in this era are table stakes.
5. Paste it into the coding agent
Below is an example of what the first output will look like. I used Opus 4.8, medium effort.
6. Continue working with the agent until you're a senior
Lots of people asked how I used Fable to edit its own launch video so I made a video about that!
TLDR it wrote a lot of code & tool calls to use transcription services, ffmpeg, do colorgrading, use the figma mcp, make remotion UI and render it.
I didn't touch a video editor.
🌗 Good night. Spent one night rebuilding the Kaku site, and it finally feels right. https://t.co/5qFXezqCZq
Kaku is a fast, out-of-the-box macOS terminal built for AI coding, open source and no account. Would love it if you gave it a try and shared any thoughts.
Stumbled upon a Codex skill that creates cool illustrations to explain topics or tell stories.
You feed it text (blog, article, narrative, even code) and it makes explainer graphics with this cute blob character.
I gave it the repo for the X recommendation algo and got this 👇
Full podcast episode with @rauchg, @maxhodak_, and @bscholl.
40 minutes of unreleased material.
The AI Industrial Revolution
Part 1: Waste Tokens, Save Time
0:00 Three Frontier Founders
1:27 AI Software Factories
4:15 Waste Tokens, Save Time
5:47 Models Instructing Humans
9:29 Is Pure Software Dead?
12:03 You Don't Get Stuck Anymore
Part 2: Vibe Coding Hardware
14:39 Vibe Coding a Turbine Blade
18:07 Open Source Compounds China's Advantage
20:15 You Always Want the Smartest Model
22:44 Software Still Needs Hands
24:43 Humans Are Becoming Verifiers
Part 3: The Regulatory Frontier
27:53 The Regulatory Red Queen Race
32:32 Why There's No Innovation in Healthcare
36:49 We Need a True 50-State Experiment
40:31 China's FDA Is Beating Ours
43:37 Healthcare Is a Communist Society Inside Capitalism
45:57 Sid's Story: N-of-1 Medicine
Part 4: The Autonomous Company
47:49 Autonomous Infrastructure
51:25 Your Job Is to Train the Agent
54:54 The Next Lord of the Rings
59:08 What's Your Definition of Art?
1:05:00 Can AI Have New Ideas?
1:07:03 A Large Number of Small Teams
"You need to make yourself a big target for luck, and the way to do that is to be curious. Try lots of things, meet lots of people, read lots of books, ask lots of questions."
— Paul Graham, How to Do Great Work
https://t.co/AyIk5fnKZL
GPT Realtime 2.0 is pretty incredible
17 startup ideas that ONLY work because of what this model makes possible:
1. Real-time contract negotiation agent. Sits on a call between two parties, checks pricing tools and compliance databases in parallel, and suggests terms mid-conversation while both sides are still talking.
2. Voice-controlled trading terminal. Talk through your thesis, the agent pulls market data, runs models, checks exposure, and executes the trade while narrating every step. Five data sources checked simultaneously while you're still talking.
3. Live multilingual event host. Realtime-Translate does 70+ languages in, 13 languages out, while the speaker is still talking. Every attendee hears the speaker in their language. Conferences go global overnight.
4. Voice-first medical intake. Patient calls in, agent conducts symptom intake, pulls their chart, checks drug interactions, books the appointment. All in one call. Previous voice models mangled medical jargon. This one was domain-tuned for it.
5. AI dispatcher for field service. Plumber calls from the job site, describes the problem, agent pulls the parts manual, checks inventory, orders the part, schedules the follow-up. Plumber's hands never leave the pipe.
6. Voice-first coding companion. Talk through architecture decisions while it writes code, runs tests, and explains what it's doing. Crank reasoning to high for hard problems. Drop to minimal for quick changes.
7. Live auction agent. Connected to estate sales, equipment auctions, domain drops. It listens to the live stream, makes bidding decisions, and tells you why it's bidding or passing. Thinks harder on big-ticket items.
8. Deposition prep agent for lawyers. Listens to practice testimony, catches inconsistencies, cross-references case documents, flags problems mid-conversation. Actually understands legal terminology.
Note: for more startup ideas for the AI age go to https://t.co/a5ARFnvky2
9. Live podcast research agent. Feeds you stats through an earpiece in real time. You mention a company, it whispers the revenue. You mention a trend, it pulls the data. Real-time research team for the price of an API call.
10. Silent sales coach. Listens to your call in silent mode, whispers coaching cues through your AirPods. "Ask about budget now." "They hesitated, dig deeper." 128K context means it remembers the entire hour-long conversation.
11. Voice-first property walkthrough agent. Walk through a property, describe what you see out loud, the agent pulls comps, estimates renovation costs, calculates cap rate, checks zoning in parallel. Full deal analysis by the time you walk out the front door.
12. Baby monitor that understands crying. Listens through a nursery speaker, distinguishes hunger cry from pain cry, soothes with a voice, alerts parents only when it matters. Silent listening mode means it's always on but only activates when needed.
13. Voice agent that calls your past-due invoices and collects payment. Polite, persistent, 24/7. Small businesses lose billions in unpaid invoices because nobody wants to make the awkward call.
14. AI that calls insurance companies and sits on hold for you. Navigates the phone tree, talks to the rep, fights the claim, calls you back with the result. Charge $20 per call. Everyone hates calling insurance.
15. Voice agent that handles Airbnb guest problems at 2am. Troubleshoots, dispatches maintenance if needed, follows up. Host sleeps through it. $150/month per property.
16. After hours voice agent for law firms. Client calls at 9pm, agent does intake, assesses urgency, schedules a morning call or patches through. Missing an after hours call costs law firms thousands.
17. Voice first quality inspector for manufacturing. Worker wears a headset, describes what they see, agent cross-references the spec sheet, flags defects, logs the report. Hands never leave the product.
Voice was always limited by intelligence, not audio quality.
Now that it has GPT-5 class reasoning, the voice agent can actually think while it talks. That's the unlock.
Everything above was impossible 6 months ago.