Alex
Alex
@alex@www.alexstandiford.com

Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.

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  • One of the weirdest things about AI is that it has really…smoothed out my day. It used to be I’d run hot and be dead ass tired by 2PM, so I always front-loaded my coding because I knew I wouldn’t have it in me to start after 1PM. Now…I’m just kinda steadily working all day.

  • Claude…did you verify your code with tests? “No, no I didn’t” Claude…we talked about this! Starting to feel like I’m reprimanding a child 😆.

  • Putting together a really cool shopping experience for Kate’s art buyers. You can select a wall color, frame, and mat while exploring her pieces and choosing what to buy.

  • Messing with openClaw today. Took a while to get it moving but I’m officially texting a bot on my computer that’s helping me manage my todos. Really cool! DEFINITELY beta. Needs work. Not for the feint of heart. But cool!

  • What a freaking crazy week.

  • The WEIRDEST side effect of using Claude code is that I am observing how it uses the CLI and by osmosis I’m getting really good with bash

  • If you’re not setting yourself up with a code review phase in your AI-written projects, you’re setting yourself up for a world of hurt later. It’s not just about validating the quality, it’s also about knowledge transfer. otherwise, your codebase will devolve into a black box.

  • When we were livin’ the RV life, we would bake bread on REALLY cold days because the oven would heat up the camper and make it smell nice. I don’t live in a camper anymore, but I have this sudden urge to bake bread. 😁

  • Swirling around setting up my ralph loop so that it intelligently chooses the right model based on the context of the task that’s asked. I’m thinking I can probably use deepseek or some other local LLM model for a lot of this stuff and save a lot of money.

  • The absolute best thing I’ve done for my prompting is end my inital request with “before beginning work, review this ask and any related materials and ask me any clarifying questions you need before you can begin”