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Ai Dev

Maintaining a work log with records and experiences of applying AI agents, autocomplete and other mechanisms as I work through my day. Using this to think through how to leverage AI for building, different patterns and ways I've applied AI or seen people applied it -- and thinking through both tools and models I wish existed for this.

July '25

2025-07-26

Taking stock of the different ways to apply AI for development that I've tried so far, thinking through where things can go, and exploring ideas for what I wish existed.

2025-07-05

• Trying to use Gemini for cleaning up the markdown files used in this notebook: it got stuck in an infinite loop and used a ridiculous amount of tokens reading all the files.

  • Instead, I asked it to write a python script and that worked out much better.
  • Ideally, agents should have

• All of Gemini, Claude and Codex aren't very CLI friendly -- they're fancier tools that rely on access to tools in the terminal, but don't necessarily integrate well with other tools. I have a lot of ideas to implement here.

• The thing I have to watch out for is getting frustrated when AI agents aren't as magical as I'd like to be and have reasonable expectations not driven by LinkedIn.

• Claude generated my Github actions to publish this site in 2 shots, which is much faster than the number of times it generally takes me to get it right.

June '25

2025-06-29

• Deleted everything generated by claude and restarted. Heh.

2025-06-19

• Decided to build a new edition of the notebook
• Refreshed my nvm, npm and Claude Setup.
• had to explicitly nuke the existing node install and caches because I'd been a bit loose with using sudo.

sudo rm -r ~/.nvm/versions/node/v22.14.0
npm cache clean --force
sudo npm cache clean --force


npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code --verbose

— Kunal