Trevin Chow

Exploring, building and obsessing over AI. Ex: @bigcartel @sketchylearning @axontechnology @nike @microsoft

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

3 weeks since @mvanhorn and I launched the @ppressdev and it’s been a blast.

Hundreds of contributors and 500+ forks have created 150+ CLIs for @espn @Strava @Tesla @monarch_money @stripe @Allrecipes @Mailchimp @beehiiv and more.

Thanks to everyone for contributing and making the world a friendlier place for humans and agents.

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@orca_build @Tailscale @linear @WisprFlow @conductor_build please, anything other than this b&w generic!

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

I'm in personal hell with all these black and white app icons in the Mac dock 😢

@orca_build @Tailscale @linear @WisprFlow @conductor_build

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

Hallelujah.

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

We've changed the trigger word from "workflow" to "ultracode".

You can still say "use a workflow for this", but when you're clearly referring to something else, Claude won't kick off a dynamic workflow. For an explicit trigger, use "ultracode". We appreciate the feedback!

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

Join me and @kieranklaassen this Friday at Compound Engineering Camp!

[Kieran Klaassen @kieranklaassen]

@hammer_mt If you want to learn more about level 9 and 10, join me Friday at Compound Engineering camp with @trevin

https://t.co/09il3JReY7

[Dhilip Subramanian @sdhilip]

Came across Printing Press recently. Very practical agent tooling: APIs/apps become agent-native CLIs, skills, and MCP servers.

Tried it on a project and built CLIs for tools without public APIs in minutes.

Respect to @mvanhorn and @trevin. @ppressdev

https://t.co/IIQ8s3PdMo

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

1. you’re assuming there was no discussion prior to the plan creation.

2. I think it’s wrong to consider agents only as “hands”. Agents are making a ton of decisions during the execution.

3. The cost of reacting to something after it’s built keeps going down. Especially when you consider multiple sessions at work building many things. Reacting after an initial build to change something isn’t that expensive all things considered

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@mvanhorn @Teknium

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@Teknium setup another instance of Hermes tonight and had a hell of a time getting iMessage to work.

My process was:
install Hermes + BlueBubbles on macOS → configure correctly → send an iMessage → nothing. No errors, no logs.

On MacOS, the node resolve localhost → ::1, Hermes only binds 127.0.0.1. Turns out there 5+ PRs for the same issue. It's a 1-car fix _webhook_url.

https://t.co/w1NKEhX4UN

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@Ethan_Smartsys @every 😝

It’s also called laziness.

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

I just asked Claude Code to read the @every article and rate me. I admit, this felt good to get this validation :)

[Kieran Klaassen @kieranklaassen]

I asked what level I am and apparently @hammer_mt forgot level 9 and 10.

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@petergyang @mvanhorn @kieranklaassen Depends what “doing” means I guess. This type of work has always been levels of abstraction. Originally people and now with agents.

Definitely there need to be risk adjusted guardrails and some review, but to get real unlock we need to let some habits go (and embrace new ones)

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@MoizIbnYousaf @every https://t.co/2t6XxfjksB

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@Eminemead @orca_build PS -- not sure what "`Katlyn" was from my voice dictation. It was suppose to say "...but am mostly in @orca_build "

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

I get unreasonably excited everytime @orca_build tells me there's a new update. The team is cooking.

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@Eminemead @orca_build It’s been great. I use cmux for general terminal stuff but am ‘Katlyn in @orca_build

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@AlemTuzlak @liu8in @mvanhorn @ppressdev love this, gonna use it! one suggestion: it should lookup existing DESIGN.md in the repo, or prompt to ask for one. Many times i'm in one repo, but the DESIGN.md i want to base it off is in another

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@liu8in @mvanhorn @ppressdev for @ppressdev i think it would be awesome to point it at a CLI and a DESIGN.md and have it bulk create videos even for our https://t.co/U8Afg6IiCu website!

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

Super interesting idea. In Compound Engineering, i have a `/ce-demo-reel` skill which does this partly but stitches together a bunch of different things to get a demo asset (animated GIF, static screen shot etc) depending on what the person wants.

My biggest worry about hyperframes is how long it would take to build it

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@Teknium oh hell yes.

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@t_n_is_me @mvanhorn Shoot me a DM, happy to help! It's an opinionated plugin and set of skills but surprised if you're not getting useful stuff

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

New display is here… forget the unboxing. This is the best part

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

@Teknium @telegram holy sh*t, this looks great!