Sean Plaice

Husband, Father, Currently at Maniple Research. Formerly Co-founder & CTO of Postmates.

[Sean Plaice @splaice]

Vibe coded esp32 .mod music track player. Inspired by ScreamTracker.
#claude

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Massive life hack / unlock discovered this morning.

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I think the same dynamic exists with Claude, you don't want the code generated right before a new model is released.

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I could feel Opus 4.8 being prepared to be released yesterday.
Same experience I had prior to 4.7 being released. Claude gets slow and impatient.
I had a review loop between Claude and codex run 9 turns and Claude still hadn't satisfied codex requests as the reviewer.

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There used to be common knowledge around not wanting a car assembled on a Monday or Friday because the workers were recovering from the weekend or rushing towards the weekend.

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Repo: https://t.co/sO24RhlgGc

[Sean Plaice @splaice]

Sharing, Coldstart, how I am building software with agents. It changes every week.
You will probably not like it.
There is no one-shot.
There is not solution.
You have to read and think a lot.
More of a pattern than anything else.

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Repo: https://t.co/RgBVBHK9yp

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Lazy software pattern I'm enjoying.

Built maildb to give Claude SQL & semantic search over my email and attachments via MCP. Thought I'd eventually package it up nicely.

Instead I run postgres on an old laptop in the garage, with tmux + claude code cli running in the git repo. Use from my phone via /remote-control.

Bug, perf issue, or want new feature? I prompt Claude then and there to build it.

Claude is the sysadmin: runs the ingestion pipeline (extraction + embeddings) and DB backups.

No releases, no packaging. Just features that exist, features to build, and an AI sysadmin.

I am not alone @rhettford told me he has a similar situation with a project of his.

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Claude Code CLI was my default. I'm shifting to https://t.co/2RmYiaoNAg as my starting point. It is easier to go back and revisit my old prompts.

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@mager @Basti @Holger @sm @aprilolanoff @swlevy 😘

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@natsturner 👏👏👏

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@Basti I'd like to add you to my professional network.

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@ServeRobotics He’s back!

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@_buames Love you.

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@Noah_Lucas 👏

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@ahkashani Never experienced this many outages until these last two years. It’s the increasing frequency that is alarming.

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@ahkashani You have a very big dog.

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@blader Excel is as much a protocol as it is a product.