Alex Standiford
Okay, so credit where credit’s due. Codex correctly assessed a very obscure issue deep in PHPNomad’s codebase this week with a Siren client on a specific type of host.
It correctly nailed the actual problem in 1 session, and a week later I was finally able to prove it, and get the bug fixed.
Not saying Claude couldn’t do it, but it felt like it had more…tenacity, maybe?
The content creation workflow I built so I could explain Siren without burning out. Voice profile, interview, multi-pass editing, customer avatar agents. No slop.
Detector tools didn’t catch my AI proposal. My client did. Here’s what your readers notice that the detectors miss, and how to fix it without bypass tricks.
Most ‘how to make ChatGPT sound human’ advice is a magic prompt. It doesn’t work. Here’s why your readers can spot AI from across the room, and what actually fixes it.
Alex Standiford
This has been a pretty big time/money saver with PHPNomad. I set up a CLI that makes it possible to scaffold code that fits PHPNomad’s patterns quickly. With it, I’m able to establish patterns in projects and save the patterns as JSON files in my PHPNomad projects so AI can leverage them when it needs to create things again later.
Not only does this save a lot on tokens, it also ensures that AI doesn’t have to guess when I say “Use the x pattern that is established in this repository to do y”
It can also discover them on its own, which is nice.
The CLI also has the capability to index pretty much all of PHPNomad’s code and save it into a batch of JSONL files, which allows AI agents to grok my project quickly without combing through the entire codebase.
It has had a profound impact on my AI token usage.
https://github.com/phpnomad/cli
The plugin sales data is real, but it’s being read as a market-death signal when it’s something else. Here’s the bet I’m making on what’s actually happening.
Product discovery is moving into Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. For a founder, an MCP server isn’t an integration anymore. It’s the first touchpoint.
Alex Standiford
The number of microservices I’ve spun up this year using PHPNomad is something to behold.
I’ve really gotten into a groove with that system, and it’s just so, SO nice to have every single thing I build and manage using the exact same framework. It’s better to be consistent than great, and my biggest bottleneck right now is reviewing code. I can review and identify code smells so much faster with PHPNomad because I know just from a glance when something isn’t built using the patterns it should be built using.
Plus the CLI I buit for it scaffolds most of the code when we’re building greenfield projects, and that saves a ton of tokens when building.
I love it.
Alex Standiford
Listen. You have ai access now. You officially have no reason to have a n insecure local network. You literally have an expert on the topic in your house, just one request away from telling you every problem with your local network security.
Alex Standiford
I swear if my coding companion goes away after April Fool’s Day because it’s an April Fools day prank, I’m going to be devastated
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