I agree, I find that just telling claude to use the CLIs I would have used anyway in the prompt works just fine. Use gh to do X, use az to do Y, build using Z. The harness handles the rest. All these MCPs, Skills, plugins, etc are just noise
What are the take aways from this? Should we avoid extensions now? Only install extensions from who you trust? What about if they get owned and you have auto-update extensions on as most people do?
Somehow the format makes me feel like its easier to learn here than the intimidating encyclopedia theme of wikipedia. It's interesting to consider the effect that presentation of information might have on learning. We know that physical books are said to be better for learning (I have heard people go up by an entire grade if they use them), but maybe there is something to be said for themes, too.
Aside from OP's post there's another issue with claude design worth mentioning. Yes, it makes absolutely beautiful designs, stunningly so, but the actual code is not something a human could ever maintain. So its like ending up with an opaque blob. Write-once, read-never, or almost disposal code. This is kind of bad because code people aren't going to bother to read might contain vulnerabilities.
It's an extreme example of slop code since while normally LLMs can produce code that ranges from some-what-okay to utter garbage, the web code claude makes is awful. On the other hand: you get a single file (even if it is full of 20+ embedded SVGs, javascripts, and other such things.)
I dont use the code directly actually. It is just for me to understand how the app looks like initially as a starting point. Previously I have used stitch by google, and even then, it was just to explore product design in the initial stages. Just to ground myself, and see how the product looks end to end. Also mostly I will be doing them in react, so the html code isn't very useful. I would rather share the screenshot directly rather than the html code during development.
I actually find, claude models to have superior visual reasoning, in their multi modal llms, im not talking about image generation LLMs. so I just share the picture, to let it undersand the layout and go from there, and just iterate until I like the final look of it.
Have you actually gotten it to build stunning designs? From what I’ve seen it still falls apart very quickly. They can do a decent job at building blocks but usually not putting them together in a cohesive way in my experience.
Well subjectively I've been extremely happy with what it built for me. This was all made with claude design: www.warpgate.io. It's the website for my NAT traversal library. Even has different theme for it, kek.
"open apps from your phone on your laptop" only thing there that I thought: "that would be pretty awesome ngl." It would be a way to easily test android apps in a real environment with an actual large screen. Yes, I know android studio has a good emulator but emulators are still a horrible platform compared to the real thing. Particularly the networking there is nothing like how it works in the real world.
I'd be interested in knowing the specs, more about the OS, software details, platform... A laptop integration like this based on android is cool to me. I couldn't care less about the AI crap though. This is a fascinating concept because phones themselves can provide a full desktop experience when you plug them into a screen. So could help encourage mobile computing more.
NDIS is extremely elegant and runs on just about every windows version. It also has plugin support for almost anything you can imagine. I used it for my concept project of building a re-usable installer for python modules: it takes the installers own file name as the input for what python module to install. So you can basically have a new installer for any python module just by renaming a file
I wrote this when vibe coding wasn't a thing, could be a cool idea though to add mirror support for some resources the installer downloads and fallback to archive.org if hosts are down. That's one of the very cool things about NSIS -- everything you need for it already exists. Downloader, authentication, compression, all kinds of neat stuff. There's some many plugins for NSIS you could build working software just out of NSIS alone.
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