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Anyone else hit a wall after the ICM build?
Hey, ran into something and curious if others have felt this too. I used the ICM method to build a tool. Staged pipeline, each step fed the next, worked great for getting the thing built. But now I'm realizing ICM feels designed for building fresh. If I want to build the same app for a different user, running the pipeline again makes sense. But if I want to edit the existing app, the pipeline docs are useless. They're stale and the agent has no efficient way to navigate the actual codebase. You need a completely different approach for editing. Less staged pipeline, more routing the agent around the live code so it knows where everything is. Has anyone figured out how to handle this transition? From ICM build mode to edit/iteration mode? Do you build an ICM around the edit/iteration mode as well ?
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@David Vogel Spoken like a man who's been around the block a time or two. Nicely done, Dave! @Gledi Kuburja Here's advice from AI: Add an updates/ folder with these inside: CONTEXT.md - Describes original build state, what changed, reconciliation rules delta-specs/ subfolder - The actual change inputs (new feature, revised spec, etc.) outputs/ subfolder - Patched artifacts or re-run stage outputs The core problem: the pipeline has no record of that feature's history, so you can't trace it back through stages. You're essentially doing archaeology before you can do anything else. The process: 1. Reconstruct the artifact — Document what the feature currently looks like in its finished state. Drop that into updates/delta-specs/ as your baseline. This becomes your "Stage 3 output" that never existed. 2. Trace it backward — Work upstream manually. What would the Stage 1 brief have said? What would Stage 2 have produced? Write those as retroactive artifacts and save them to the appropriate stage output folders. You're filling in the missing history. 3. Now run the update normally — Once the ghost history exists, the update has a starting point. Feed the change into the earliest affected stage and run forward from there. 4. Document the gap in updates/CONTEXT.md — Note that this feature was retrofitted, when, and what the reconstructed artifacts are. Future updates to that feature will run clean from here. Not going thru the pipeline on the first pass creates a debt you pay later. The reconstruction step (step 2) is that debt. It's not hard, just tedious — and it's exactly why getting even partial pipeline artifacts at build time is worth the friction. I hope this helps.
[FREE GUIDE] Built AI versions of 15 of my favorite creators over the last 3 months.
Built AI versions of 15 of my favorite creators over the last 3 months. Mostly for myself. Yesterday someone asked me how. Today a few more people did. So here's the entire blueprint, free. Pick any YouTube channel. Run Claude Code. Paste one message. Wait 30 minutes. You now have an AI tutor that's read every video on that channel and can answer questions like the creator would. Hormozi-bot for pricing. VanClief-bot for whatever you've been meaning to ask Jake at 2am(Spoiler Alert: this happens a LOT). Your favorite teacher, on tap. Repo: https://github.com/aaronb458/youtube-tutor-template Free version runs on your laptop. Paid version (~$5-10/mo, with $200 in free Deepgram credits to start) lives in the cloud and plugs into Claude.ai as a permanent tool. Both versions are walked through end-to-end by Claude itself — you don't need to know what an API key is, what a database is, or what "deploy" means. You click links. You paste things back. That's it. Posting it here because @Jake Van Clief's content rewired how I think about creative + business + software being one unified system. The only way I know how to repay that is to make sure people in this community can mainline it the same way. Try it. Break it. Tell me what's confusing. I'll fix it.
[FREE GUIDE] Built AI versions of 15 of my favorite creators over the last 3 months.
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@Nathan Smith I know what you mean. Do you like the mind maps? They've become a great way to break an article or video down into main topics and sub topics.
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@Nathan Smith yeah they really are. Have you tried the live version where it can raise your hand and ask the virtual hosts questions? It's pretty stinking amazing!
Goals for the week of May 4
What does everyone else have planned to accomplish this next week? I figured sharing with each other would provide some accountability and even some support. - I set up my company LinkedIn page today so this week I want to create a posting schedule with topics for the next 3 months and create a first post - Follow up on 3 leads with the goal of seeing up an AI Readiness Audit - Generate the remaining templates needed for my folder architecture - Continue working on the Chrome extension I promised my wife. (Got it started on Friday)
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Win! Getting the go ahead to rebuild our website
Wanted to share that today my boss came to me and asked seriously "Is this really possible?" and I was able to confidently say absolutely and we can make it whatever we want. Probably gonna be some discussions about what needs to go on the website but really happy that after last week's proof of concept website we're actually gonna move forward on our branding, nice end of the week
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I'm in the same spot you were in a few days ago... Trying to help my bosses see that we could handle our website and marketing materials internally and can stop paying that marketing service that hasn't touched our site in 3 years. I'm going to make a prototype in lovable over the weekend and present it next week. Congrats @Roc Lee ! I hope next week I'm celebrating the same win you are right now!
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I can relate. Have you built out yours yet?
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Turning nuts, bolts, and code into creative solutions. Mechanical designer exploring AI frontiers.

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