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Developer, UX Designer, Entrepreneur. Open to new opportunities, either as technical co-founder or contract work.

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I have found enabling the codebase itself to be the “Claude.md” to be most effective. In other words, set up effective automated checks for linting, type checking, unit tests etc and tell Claude to always run these before completing a task. If the agent keeps doing something you don’t like, then a linting update or an additional test often is more effective than trying to tinker with the Claude.md file. Also, ensure docs on the codebase are up to date and tell Claude to read relevant parts when working on a task and of course update the docs for each new task. YMMV but this has worked for me.

Yes, after working as a dba for a law firm and discovering that I was the administrator for thousands of lawsuits against tobacco companies. In many cases the victim had already died of lung cancer and the suit was being brought by family members. Many of the families’ income was near poverty level. At the same time, the law firm was in a plush nyc office building. I spent day after day feeling like I wanted to throw up and finally quit.

I recently had an experience where I was trying out the AWS Bedrock service using their knowledge base quickStart. I followed their flow for creating a knowledge base and then played with it a bit but decided it wasn’t for me. That was in April. On May 1, I received a bill from AWS for several hundred dollars. It turns out this index I created was costing me about $16/day. I had set up a budget alarm for $20 but it was never triggered. I contacted AWS support and they were very apologetic but would not offer any kind of refund. On the one hand, sure I should have deleted those indexes after trying them out, but there was no info or any indication provided that they’d incur a daily expense even when not in use. In fact, even after I received the bill I was not able to find the source of the expense because it was described as coming from OpenSearch, which I had not used. It was only after contacting AWS support that I was able to determine that the source of the expense was Bedrock.

Prompt-based window snapping. For example, I would describe how windows should snap based on the type of app, the number of windows and more. Example: single terminal window should snap bottom left, second window should snap next to it. Browser window full screen unless other apps are open in which case half screen left. Etc.