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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.

July '25

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.

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