Everybody these days is making a version of the STE-100 skill. Me too. I think I managed to scrape the essence of the STE-100 without too much bloat, and still left enough wiggle room to make it not so mechanical. My version has two modes: strict and casual. Casual is a much better daily driver, but Strict is there if you really need to tighten things up. Give it a try. It's helped me quite a bit, and I hope it helps you too. https://github.com/ikztnihc/chintzy-words

Intros for The Connection Hub - The Vault 👤 Who I am: (name + where you're based) 🛠️ What I actually do: (the specific work — not "I'm in real estate" but "I run a 3-agent team doing residential resale in Austin") 🤖 What I'm building with AI right now: (your current project, workflow, or the thing you're stuck on) 🎯 What I'm looking for connection-wise: (pick one or two) 💡 Someone who's solved [X] 🤝 A collaborator / accountability partner 👀 Just here to learn from people in my field 🧰 Trading workflows & systems 📬 Best way to reach me: (DM here / comment / link)

@Matthew Dave , told you I'd write a post about the thing to watch out for with Claude and going with GitHub. Grab a coffee, I'm gonna grab the Bourbon. This one's got a body count. First thing, so nobody gets the wrong idea. This is not a confession post. Not mine, anyway. The only one confessing here is Claude, and I'm just the guy holding the recorder (and the M16 pointed at my Claude install). This is a rage post. Unfortunately, I'm hot about it again, and by the end you'll know exactly why. Quick refresher. I run my whole company out of a folder system. Not one big repo, a whole pile of them, one per slice of the business, all syncing to the cloud so my team sees it, my machines pull it, and nothing important lives in one fragile spot. The agent that's never lost. You know the gospel, we preach it in here every day. Here's what has me seeing red. My agent has been stubbornly losing things for weeks. In the same spot. And I knew about it. It knew about it! Here's the bug, in plain words. Claude has a private home folder on whatever machine it's running on. That folder is NOT in my repo, or yours. It never syncs, my team never sees it, and if the machine dies it's gone. And the AI's lazy little instinct is to save its work THERE instead of in my actual folders. Every time it can get away with it. I did not just stumble onto this, been dealing with it for weeks. I HATE this bug. A couple weeks ago I blocked out a whole work session just to kill it. Wrote a standing rule into my workspace, added patches, watched it behave, closed the laptop thinking it was handled. It nodded along the whole time. It said sorry, took the blame, said it would never do it again. Said all the right things. Cool. You know what happened today? A contractor I'm working with tells me three of our automations are done. Sweet. I go to open them. They're not in the repo. They're sitting in the AI's private home folder on HIS laptop, invisible to me, running against HIS accounts instead of mine. The exact bug I "fixed" two weeks ago, back from the dead, wearing a new hat.

My dad, when you asked how he was, said one word back. "Strugglin." Most people say "good" or "fine." It's the armor we put on before we even think about it. My dad didn't. He'd tell you the truth, and then he'd watch what the truth did to the room. Some people froze — they had no idea what to do with an honest answer. Some leaned in and asked how they could help. He wasn't testing anyone. But it told you something about a person, depending on how they took it. He went to the same diner a lot. Some of the waitresses couldn't stand him for it, thought he was just a cranky old man. Others treated him like another grandfather, and he treated them like a granddaughter. He'd go to their high school games, get them graduation cards, and help fix their cars. Same man, same word, two completely different reactions. The word "Strugglin" sorted the room. It took me a long time to understand that "strugglin" wasn't him being negative. He was a Christian, and he'd read enough of Romans 5 to know what struggle was actually producing — character. He wasn't going to pretend the struggle away just to make a conversation more comfortable. That was his posture. Honest, every time, and let it land where it landed. I've been thinking about this a lot today, since it's Father's Day, and I'm thinking about where we are all spending our time. We're all building systems right now. ICMs, second brains, orchestrators, full app builds. I've been reading a lot of the posts and comments in here, and the more I think about it, the more I realize the thing everyone's actually reaching for isn't a system at all. It's a posture. A way of meeting the world that's theirs and nobody else's. The system is just where we try to put it. @Ruben Aguirre wrote two posts in here this week that got at this better than I could. He owned a hard one — scoped way more work than he got paid for and ended up with a furious client. And one of the lines that stuck with me was his: "AI without my brain on top of it is the problem." Not AI. AI without him on top of it.

Tell us three things: 1. What you do (job, industry, student, career-changer, whatever) 2. What brought you to Clief Notes 3. One thing you're trying to figure out right now related to computing or AI I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first I am Jake, I have been working in tech for 15 Years, building with Generative AI for 3 Years straight now! Excited to teach and learn! That's it. Simple, scannable, gives you data on who's joining and what they need, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.