steve caldwell 👨‍🍳

🇺🇸 dad. cookin up the future of work and making AI multiplayer at @hellogumbox @sealedflow. building on the web since '99. @heycrawdad keeps me in line.

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

One of my holiday goals was to get my sh*t together and build myself a proper AI assistant. I spend my day bouncing between multiple Claude Code / Codex sessions and sometimes too many meetings. I've got three kids, two businesses, one wife, and virtually zero time to build systems that make my life better.

The data is all there, I just need to bring it together and make sense of it.

This week, I stumbled upon this awesome agent workflow writeup by @steipete where he mentions what he's building at https://t.co/7QDWnQGfpM , and I was intrigued.

This is a very appealing AI assistant. Seems like exactly what I'm looking for. So I asked Claude Code to set up Clawdis on a headless Mac Mini on my LAN.

After I pointed it to some credentials, my Clawdis ("Crawdad" 🦞) quite literally did the rest, setting itself up, all via WhatsApp. I gave it access to my 5 email accounts, calendars, iMessages (via BlueBubbles server), and Granola transcripts.

This stuff rarely works the first time. It was awesome.

Then, earlier today, we had a real Jarvis moment.

I was in my car waiting on my wife to emerge from the store, so I sent Crawdad a voice message. I hadn't configured OpenAI API keys for transcribing my voice, so I asked it to try to install and use whisper.cpp (via WhatsApp), and it *just worked*, and will use this method going forward.

Excited to build out more tooling here. I think this is a super important project to watch - seems like it could be the foundation of a unicorn tbh.

Thanks for all of your work here Peter - feels like a weight has been lifted for real! 2026 is gonna be lit 🔥

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

📢 Confession: I ship code I never read. Here's my 2025 workflow. https://t.co/tmxxPowzcR

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

That's not just a meme — it's a masterclass in design satire.

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

Ran some awesome complex research and implementation workflows on a codebase today, it was a flawless 2 hour run.

[cat @_catwu]

Excited to share our most powerful new Claude Code feature: dynamic workflows!

Mention "workflow" in a prompt and Claude will dynamically create an orchestration plan that it strictly follows, allowing you to confidently trust that every stage happens in the right order even across 100s of agents.

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

Multiplayer AI in action

[Simon Willison @simonw]

Shopify's River agent system lives in Slack and can only be used in public so that other employees can learn from what you do with it

Reminds me of how Midjourney's Discord-only launch helped people figure out the weird & complex craft of image prompting by watching each other

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

Use HTML for humans and Markdown for machines

[Thariq @trq212]

https://t.co/MXt5XS4xBX

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

big compounding energy

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

Codex just built me a beautiful working native MacOS menu bar app (designed in Claude Design) in one shot.

Swift agent skills made it happen: https://t.co/la2a8MtoLv

nice work @twostraws

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

@nickco Touch dirt

[Cloudflare Developers @CloudflareDev]

Multiple security vulnerabilities affecting React Server Components and Next.js have been disclosed. We strongly recommend updating your applications immediately.

Cloudflare WAF managed rules already mitigate the disclosed denial-of-service vulnerabilities, and we are investigating additional coverage for several other CVEs.

https://t.co/mT9ujk1H7c

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

Pretty incredible

You have to try the new '/goal' feature in Codex

It worked for over an hour and built me an entire complex extraction shooter video game

You give it a goal, then it works endlessly until the goal is complete. It's like a Ralph loop. Can run for days

If you enable the image gen skill before you run the goal, it will even generate ALL the assets for your game autonomously. I didn't manually create ANY of the assets you see in the video

Recommendations: enable the image gen skill, put on skip all permissions, and give the prompt as much detail as you can. It will accomplish ALL of it

This has to be the sickest way to build games/ long running app tasks ever

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

@RaphaelDabadie congrats on the launch!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Accurate

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

phenomenal read

[brett goldstein @thatguybg]

https://t.co/ZJN7e274vP

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

@sama hey, thanks Sam

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

@annimaniac Yes. Let’s talk

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

@MudMilchek more spice: add one named human nemesis to USER.md and let it be a surprise to that person :)

something about having a friendly rival / banter actually makes your claw perform better

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

Giving my agents a Link wallet and the agency to create @Cloudflare accounts feels like a big unlock

[Stripe @stripe]

Today, we’re launching the @link wallet for agents. It lets you securely empower agents to spend on your behalf. Your payment credentials are never exposed and you approve every purchase.

https://t.co/TcvEiVNth9

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. https://t.co/qFgCivQTTi

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

@sama I’ll bring the Gumbo

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

@chamath Glad you enjoyed the post-- big fan of the pod. let's cook!

https://t.co/Yc3YQArSiN

[GUMBO @hellogumbox]

The first wave of AI made individuals faster. It also made organizations messier. The companies pulling ahead have figured out the next move isn't a better tool — it's humans and agents working side by side, where nothing falls through the cracksThe first wave of AI made individuals faster. It also made organizations messier. The companies pulling ahead have figured out the next move isn't a better tool — it's humans and agents working side by side, where nothing falls through the cracksThe first wave of AI made individuals faster. It also made organizations messier. The companies pulling ahead have figured out the next move isn't a better tool — it's humans and agents working side by side, where nothing falls through the cracks.

[steve caldwell 👨‍🍳 @stevecaldwell]

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