I stopped opening IDE's The setup Two windows: 1. Claude Desktop App (for research, planning, long conversations) 2. Mac terminal running Claude Code (for all execution) Why this works better than running Claude Code inside an IDE When Claude Code runs inside an IDE terminal, every file operation passes through the editor's plugin layer: file watchers, extensions, lock conflicts. In a standalone terminal, Claude Code talks directly to your filesystem. No interception, no translation. The practical difference: - File writes are instant. No "file changed externally, reload?" dialogs. - Git operations run clean. No source control extension competing for the same lock. - Shell access is unfiltered. Package installs, curl, deployment scripts, SSH tunnels. All native. - No extension memory overhead. My terminal session uses a fraction of what VSCode was consuming. - MCP servers (GitHub, databases, APIs) wire in directly without fighting IDE plugin architecture. What a real session looks like Last week I built a Cloudflare Worker with KV bindings. One terminal window: - Claude Code scaffolded the project structure - Wrote the Worker handler, wrangler config, and KV namespace bindings - Ran wrangler deploy - Tested the endpoint with curl - Fixed a routing issue based on the error response - Committed and pushed Total time: under 20 minutes. I never typed a line of code. I described what I needed, reviewed the output, approved the operations. You're not coding in a terminal. You're directing an agent that codes for you. How to set this up (10 minutes) If you have a Mac and Claude Pro or Max: (On a PC? Your setup instructions are in the attached file.) 1. Install Claude Code: open terminal, run the install command from Anthropic's docs. 2. Run "claude" in any project directory. You're in an agentic session. 3. Open Claude Desktop App alongside for planning, research, and longer thinking conversations. Optional but useful: - Set up a .claude directory in your project with a CLAUDE.md file. Same idea as onboarding docs, but for your coding agent. Persistent instructions about your project, coding standards, and preferences.

Make sure to take note of the name changes. It is now OpenClaw. Hopefully final :) Clawdbot -> Moltbot -> OpenClaw! https://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw

Just a heads up I’m raising the price of AI Automation Society Plus TOMORROW at midnight. If you join now, you’ll lock in the $94/month rate forever, no matter how high prices go in the future. Here’s what you’ll get immediate access to: ⚡ Agent Zero — AI basics made simple ⚡ 10 Hours to 10 Seconds — learn exactly what to automate to save hours every week ⚡n8n Masterclass — Projects, puzzles, and course material to turn you into an n8n wizard ready to sell your solutions ⚡ Unlimited tech support — our team helps you fix broken workflows ⚡ Live vibe coding workshops — learn Claude Code and build real apps with expert guidance Annual members also get The One Person AI Agency, the $1,000 blueprint for building a lean, high-profit automation business. Don’t wait until the clock runs out. 👉 Click here to get grandfathered in I’ll see you inside.

Every week, I sit down to document my progress not because I have everything figured out, but because I don’t. ✍️This week, I messed up. I trimmed my recording, And last the main transcription Luckily before that managed to download the original video. 😅 It wasn’t perfect the description is off but the essence is still there. And that’s what matters. 🌱 This is the reality of building something new: you’re not aiming for flawless execution; you’re building the muscle of consistency. 💥 Every time you show up, even when it’s imperfect, you strengthen your ability to keep moving forward. 🚀 In this week’s recording, I tested one of my AI voice systems. 🤖 It wasn’t smooth (Or I'm maybe just being hard on myself 😩) I wasn’t even sure it was connected. But I tried anyway. The AI answered calls, booked appointments, and responded naturally. It wasn’t replacing a human; it was amplifying what a human team could do removing repetitive tasks so we can focus on the creative, meaningful parts. 💡 That’s the bigger lesson. Technology isn’t here to take away human potential it’s here to magnify it. The AI handled the details; I handled the direction. Together, we moved closer to better workflow and better work. ⚙️✨ And that’s what this journal is really about: learning in motion. Week after week, mistake after mistake, win after win the point isn’t perfection. It’s momentum. 🔁 Next week is Week 5. 🚀 We’ll push again, experiment again, and refine again. Progress doesn’t always look like success. Sometimes it just looks like showing up, pressing “record,” and giving it one more shot. 🎬🔥 Let’s keep going. 🙌

Back in August 2025, I found Nate's YouTube channel. I was curious about AI automation but had no idea where to start. I joined AI Automation Society and started learning. Two weeks in, I saw Nate post about a hackathon event. Did not have a clue what that meant. The catch: it was only available in the paid community, AI Automation Society Plus. The very first week, a hackathon dropped: build a lead gen system in 2 weeks. 119 builders entered. I had no business competing. One month into my automation journey. Zero tech background. But I went all in. Every night after work. Debugging until 3am. Stuck on nodes for hours. Asking Claude, ChatGPT and pretty much any LLM I could talk to explain code like I was 5. I used multiple because I kept hitting my context window... anyway. My final build scraped Google Maps, enriched leads with Hunter + Apollo, scored them, and pushed qualified ones into cold email campaigns — all automated. 50 leads scraped, enriched, and loaded in under 60 seconds. I won first place. $1,000. This began a crazy journey! But what does any of this matter to you? I have a feeling I was once in the same place as many of you. Are you still watching tutorials... or are you actually building? What's stopping you from going all in? For me, it was fear. I didn't think I was ready. I thought I needed to learn more first. But here's what I realized — you don't learn by watching. You learn by doing. I call it massive imperfect action. The hackathon forced me to build. The paid community gave me the structure to finish and be rewarded for hard work. This is why I took the leap of faith and what AIS+ provided for me: → Structure — actual courses that walk you through building real systems → Accountability — hackathons and challenges that force you to ship → Access — Nate and other advanced builders who answer questions and give feedback → Momentum — being surrounded by people who are actually building, not just watching I'm not saying the free community isn't valuable. It is. I started here.