Donald Ness

Building AI-native title and escrow

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Package scripts are a terrible orchestration language.

A small TypeScript CLI gives your project a real control plane.

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If your package.json scripts look like this:

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Do yourself a favor and spend 15 minutes prompting your coding agent to build a real CLI.

Then your developers get:

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@alexdanilowicz Claude respectfully disagrees:

"Drafting a condo board email about trash pickup is not an act of self-discovery."

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@oliverbrocato took me months to figure this out with my first hire like that. everyone loves them, too.

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@7why__ydm did you try telling them to snap out of it? that usually works

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@benspringwater daytime clouds over night sky? stunning

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@anxietymsgs

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@omgsidewalks art

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@uday_devops I chose TanStack Start am I cooked?

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@TheOvermanEthos david vs goliath

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@omgsidewalks we're the best

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@growing_daniel my new mantra for the next 5 minutes

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@omgsidewalks Say no

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@Tim_Denning the toothless meth addict in front of 7-11 is crushing rn

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@uday_devops did it for 20 years but probably not anymore. my ADD has risen to incomprehensible levels with AI.

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@nalinrajput23 PII

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@DanielSmidstrup team Claude (Max) but Codex (Pro) reviews big changes. if I have enough tokens in my session then Codex just fixes too since it already has the context, otherwise I hand off. feels kind of stupid, there's probably a better way.

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@TTrimoreau requires more high-level creative input for sure. no more 4-hour mechanical coding sessions. makes me giddy.

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@bendikdev *laughs in B2B2C*