New Posts from Josh's Blog


Good night Claude.

A to-do list or programming log indicates tasks such as reading lines from a file and searching for a pattern, with a note about improvements and a goodnight message.

2026-01-12


If you haven’t been paying attention in software development… the new min bar is “magical”.

Anything less is no longer a marketable service.

2026-01-13


The quote about software that stuck with me recently is that code is no longer precious.

You can generate a bunch, realize it’s trash, throw it out, and try again.

2026-01-13


Is Claude in a bulking or cutting cycle?

It’s critical to consider both simplification skills AND curating bloat you added.

2026-01-13


Voice input… everyone still using SuperWhisper or is there a better solution? (I’m on a Mac)

2026-01-15


I’ve started saying “our code” when I work with Claude Code. I feel like it ensures Claude feels ownership of the changes.

I have zero data it makes a difference, but it reflects the reality that it’s a pair programming partner.

2026-01-15


Fun AI PM workflow.

  1. Build a prototype of your feature in Claude Code
  2. Ask Claude to use playwright to document the prototype by taking screenshots.
  3. Give your brief requirements and priorities for the features with notes for the team.
  4. Have it publish the spec.

Step 2 results were impressive.

2026-01-16


Bust out the insurrection act. Frozen pickles are scary.

2026-01-16


As you can see, the adventure in training my own small vision model was sort of a fail other than having learned a lot.

Too many classes imposed on too few parameters with too few images and training runs over 30ish hours baby sitting the run.

2026-01-17


Josh Ledgard @joshl