John Nunemaker

Tweets about Ruby/Rails. Building @boxoutsports, @firesidefm and @flipper_cloud. Huge fan of 🏀 and ⏱️ (@sbwatchco).

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

Your job as a tech leader now is to get claude code max, default to opus, get your local dev env setup agent friendly, then do the same for everyone on your team. Learn how to be super human and then teach everyone else.

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

@jespr That’s a good one. Honestly AI naming my branches is the best. I just change from what they pick when I get a great idea out of nowhere. The rest of the time my branch names are akin to Steve Jobs wardrobe.

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

One of my branch names today was caddy-is-a-baddy. Ask me anything.

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

@jespr Hahaha. Agreed. One of my finest. Another good one I have is “tweaks”

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

@jespr I was working on caddy for fireside and I like to rhyme.

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

Went back on Code with Jason.

We got into how I ended up buying Fireside, financing it with home equity, why support is the product, and the scrappy APM I'm building.

https://t.co/4ql8PIQpdo

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

OH: I thought it was going to make a plan and it was like "I did it". 🤣

Claude you handsome devil...

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

@hubertlepicki I use both. I don’t find it’s better in general but it is at certain things that Claude does have a hard time on.

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

I’ve been doing this too.

“This can be more simple and performant and resilient.”

“This can have fewer network calls”

[Lea Verou, PhD @LeaVerou]

💡Recent insight: gaslighting @claudeai seems to improve code quality >90% of the time.

“You overengineered this, there is a simpler way”
“There is a smaller delta that buys us most of the benefits”
“There is a more elegant way”
“This is not architecturally coherent”

…before I even read its code. 😆

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

@inazarova @jpcamara Agree on adapterizarion being huge. Same for flipper.

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

I’ve tried vanilla CC, conductor, superset, superconductor, Claude mac, codex mac/cli, cmux, and several others. I feel like all of them still miss on focus and autonomy.

Even in this agent world I want to focus on a few things at a time at most. Hide the rest. Pins help but only if you can hide the rest and I haven’t found any that let me.

For autonomy I’d like to see more of them make it easier to loop and run things that work when I’m gone. Idk how or what I want but I know I want it.

[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. 🤣

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

I need to get much better at building skills or using /loop to avoid the /review, "fix", "commit and push", repeat loop...

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

@TimHaines Sounds like it. We’ll see. If so I guess I’ll switch to superset which just fires up a terminal or conductor will do that. I like terminal Claude code fine I just use conductor for the full flow and everything in one place.

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

@winsletts Bball hub is getting some marks lately. Starting to move past the last years nagging injuries hopefully

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

Happy to announce that I've finally hit my stride on living a balanced life with AI. 🤣

For the past month I've pretty successfully stopped prompting into the evening and restored some relaxation.

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

@dneighbors How does overall gets the job compare to Claude and codex?

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

Ok folks. I know I've been all in on Claude for half a year, but Codex has jumped back into the mix. I started by using it for reviews and now I'm starting to actively compare it with the same prompt to claude. Feels faster than it use to be.

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

@brandur No. Back on railway already. The dev experience there is just so good.

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

Claude working its butt off right now to spin up some stuff on fly since railway has bit the dust tonight.

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

@strzibnyj Hasn’t clicked with me yet. Read the book. Still feels like I’m giving up some platform protection like security and stuff. What do you use to load balance across hosting platforms then? Cloudflare?

[John Nunemaker @jnunemaker]

Resiliency is always a trade off. Deploy to two platforms so you can be available when one goes down? Now config, deploys, metrics, everything is split. You need tooling to join or extra cognitive load.