Rayan Chaudhuri

seasoned technology leader, agilist, creative thinker, volunteer, gastronome

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

New: A map of the most important skills in AI Engineering. https://t.co/VVkn1Dqp1N

[Rayan Chaudhuri @rayanc]

In the cloud era, enterprises accumulated data. In the AI era, they accumulate learning.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

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[Rayan Chaudhuri @rayanc]

@codewithimanshu @grok how can I extract the text from this post

[Roan @RohOnChain]

This 2 hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT & Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.

Bookmark this & give 2 hours today, no matter what. It'll be the most productive thing you do this week.

[Vishakha Singhal @vishisinghal_]

Most people think using Claude Code is about writing better prompts.

It’s not.

The real unlock is structuring your repository so Claude can think like an engineer.

If your repo is messy, Claude behaves like a chatbot.

If your repo is structured, Claude behaves like a developer living inside your codebase.

Your project only needs 4 things:

• the why → what the system does
• the map → where things live
• the rules → what’s allowed / forbidden
• the workflows → how work gets done

I call this:

The Anatomy of a Claude Code Project 👇

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1️⃣ CLAUDE.md = Repo Memory (Keep it Short)

This file is the north star for Claude.

Not a massive document.

Just three things:

• Purpose → why the system exists
• Repo map → how the project is structured
• Rules + commands → how Claude should operate

If CLAUDE.md becomes too long, the model starts missing critical signals.

Clarity beats size.

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2️⃣ .claude/skills/ = Reusable Expert Modes

Stop repeating instructions in prompts.

Turn common workflows into reusable skills.

Examples:

• code review checklist
• refactoring playbook
• debugging workflow
• release procedures

Now Claude can switch into specialized modes instantly.

Result:

More consistent outputs across sessions and teammates.

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3️⃣ .claude/hooks/ = Guardrails

Models forget.

Hooks don’t.

Use hooks for things that must always happen automatically.

Examples:

• run formatters after edits
• trigger tests after core changes
• block sensitive directories (auth, billing, migrations)

Hooks turn AI workflows into reliable engineering systems.

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4️⃣ docs/ = Progressive Context

Don’t overload prompts with information.

Instead, let Claude navigate your documentation.

Examples:

• architecture overview
• ADRs (engineering decisions)
• operational runbooks

Claude doesn’t need everything in memory.

It just needs to know where truth lives.

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5️⃣ Local CLAUDE.md for Critical Modules

Some areas of your system have hidden complexity.

Add local context files there.

Example:

src/auth/CLAUDE.md
src/persistence/CLAUDE.md
infra/CLAUDE.md

Now Claude understands the danger zones exactly when it works in them.

This dramatically reduces mistakes.

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Here’s the shift most people miss:

Prompting is temporary.

Structure is permanent.

Once your repository is designed for AI:

Claude stops acting like a chatbot...

…and starts behaving like a project-native engineer. 🚀

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

🚨 BREAKING: A developer on GitHub just built a tool that turns any GitHub repo into an interactive knowledge graph and open sourced it for free.

It's called GitNexus. Think of it as a visual X-ray of your codebase but with an AI agent you can actually talk to.

No server. No subscription. No enterprise sales call.

Here's what it does inside your browser:

→ Parses your entire GitHub repo or ZIP file in seconds
→ Builds a live interactive knowledge graph with D3.js
→ Maps every function, class, import, and call relationship
→ Runs a 4-pass AST pipeline: structure → parsing → imports → call graph
→ Stores everything in an embedded KuzuDB graph database
→ Lets you query your codebase in plain English with an AI agent

Here's the wildest part:

It uses Web Workers to parallelize parsing across threads so a massive monorepo doesn't freeze your tab.

The Graph RAG agent traverses real graph relationships using Cypher queries not embeddings, not vector search. Actual graph logic.

Ask it things like "What functions call this module?" or "Find all classes that inherit from X" and it traces the answer through the graph.

This is the kind of code intelligence tool enterprise teams pay thousands per month for.

It runs entirely in your browser.

Works with TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python.

100% Open Source. MIT License.

Repo: https://t.co/RzIoLR2vAe

[Rayan Chaudhuri @rayanc]

@AmericanAir Vacation travel with @AmericanAir from DFW started off with rolling delays today, 3 hours and counting. The only answer you hear at the gate is ‘we are sorry’, absolutely no redressal for planned reservations, lost opportunity to visit places and meet with friends.

[Dickie Bush @dickiebush]

At Steve Jobs's memorial service, all 500 guests were gifted one book.

It was a book Jobs reread every year for 38 years.

Here are 5 ideas from "Autobiography of a Yogi" he used to build the $1 trillion Apple empire:🧵

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[Marcus House @MarcusHouse]

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Watch this! 🤯

[ANI @ANI]

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[Rayan Chaudhuri @rayanc]

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[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

Outside the Chicago Art Institute, a lane is named 'Swami Vivekananda Way.' His words didn't just inspire India 🇮🇳 they inspired the world.

[NSF Director @NSFDirector]

The ExpandAI program is set to broaden the participation of minority serving institutions in #AI research, education and workforce development.

Learn more on how ExpandAI will open new doors to STEM opportunities and advance careers for decades to come: https://t.co/zwD9FDvnSD

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[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

We're all human.

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

What to do when it's hard to get excited about your work: https://t.co/Qrhss0aZTe

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