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Seven commands and the communication layer that emerged

Week three of building a management system with Claude Code. Seventeen commits in one day, a command that lasted 24 hours, and the realisation that commands are conversations.
Rob Whittaker
April 23, 2026
- AI
- Claude Code
- Management
- Gtd
- Productivity
The AI stack I developed to help me context switch

How I use Obsidian, Claude Projects, and Gemini Meeting Notes to stay present when my brain has too many tabs open.
Daniel Kim
April 16, 2026
Sixty-six commits and the commands that didn't survive

In week two of building a management system with Claude Code, I created fifteen commands in a day. By the end of the week, I’d deleted three of them.
Rob Whittaker
April 8, 2026
I copied a prompt and built a management system in a week

How I used Claude Code to build a GTD-based management system from a borrowed idea, meeting transcripts, and three days of real work.
Rob Whittaker
March 19, 2026
Introducing Test Budget: a linter for test performance

Your test suite didn’t get slow all at once. It won’t get fast all at once either. Start by making sure it stops getting worse.
Matheus Richard
March 17, 2026
How to use LLMs without driving your team mad

Three AI anti-patterns that consistently frustrate development teams, and how to avoid them.
Jimmy Thigpen
November 17, 2025
AI-led or Human-led Coding? We have to choose.

It is time we take a closer look about how we code with AI and the ramifications on our industry.
Sami Birnbaum
May 15, 2025
Optimize your shell experience

Make your shell workflow as smooth as possible by creating helpers designed just for you.
Matheus Richard
December 20, 2024
- Shell
- Productivity
- Tip
The president's doctor: Why your projects take forever

Spoiler: Things wait. A lot. A tale of efficiency, but for whom?
Jared Turner
November 5, 2024
- Productivity
- Workflow
Not another meeting

Meeting-free days means more productivity, right? More time for focused work. When should, or should you not, press that big ‘+’ button on your calendar?
Bethan Ashley
October 22, 2024
- Productivity
- Teams
- Meeting
- Remote
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