It’s not: “we cleaned files” It’s: “we built a system that keeps itself clean.” The first month I was just trying to get my head around the Foundation, Implementation and understand what is happening. Foundation already gave me a Content Provider style architecture, along with the animation and website builder, i intuitively and with both ChatGPT and Claude I started by implementing Jake's structure. I watched YouTube videos as well that gave me other insights (and validated that Jake's course is the only place that i see that talks about ICM and Architecture and such). Either way, I signed up for premium yesterday, and found that there was much more to complement the Foundation. As Jake suggested, I slowly took each on of the Vault items, and explored with Claude - how is our architecture compared to GitHub repos (which I tapped into some of the members GitHub repos and made Claude check itself against those insights - super thank you Community!!). It pointed out a few times that our architecture is more mature, though it always found 1 or 2 items that could improve its flow. We had a glitch this morning when I prompted the execution of today's schedule with all the items to post, create and monitor, which the Orchestrator and Operator (me) had to dissect what it did and ensure it won't follow that course again, and whether such a flow is efficient both Token costs and Workflow. It found ways to optimize - extracted what it found useful from the Vault, informed that skills that mention in Vault are skills we already captured (among others). My very first project with Jake - text to video animation has been improving on its own outside my Brand Sandbox. And as I closed my Claude after uploading the content it had structured neatly for me in an HTML file with EVERYTHING that i needed for the content posting, I had it summarize its work - which I hope this help if you read this far (thank you for reading my stuff:)) - Three-day architecture delta (Apr 30 → May 3)

https://open.substack.com/pub/prosperinai/p/stop-hitting-claude-usage-limits?r=7y10ys&utm_medium=ios Found this great post on Substack by Ilia Katelin on how Claude operates under the hood and how it’ll processes tokens. The post starts with very basic prompting strategies then goes deeper into to settings and eventually on how to configure Claude files. We learn many of these in this community and through the ICM system, but there are some great nuggets here. One of my big takeaways for me is that Claude uses less tokens to ingest a document via a connector (eg Google Drive) vs dropping it into the context window itself. 🤯 Hope this brings value!

came back after a week offline and spent an hour just reading posts. people are shipping. full agent teams, named specialists, live clients. and i'm still on the foundation. but here's the honest version of what's actually happening. i build something. it works. then i look at it and realise it's not what i actually wanted. so i break it and start again. then halfway through the rebuild, a new idea comes in and now i don't know if i should finish what i started or pivot to the thing that's clearly better. i've rebuilt the same system three times in a month. and the worst part.. each version was better than the last. so was the rebuilding wrong? or is that just what building actually looks like before it locks in? genuinely asking because i can't tell if this is a me problem or if everyone here is quietly doing the same thing and just posting the final version.

At work we have strict rules around AI and for a long time I thought it would never be possible to get access to tools like Claude. In my personal life I've been using AI for a while now mainly to help me build Power Automate flows. I'm not technical but I know what I want and I've built a lot in SharePoint that helps me do my job. A few months ago I hit a wall. I kept having to explain to AI who I was and what I wanted every single time. I was done with it. Online there was so much going on that it felt like I was missing everything. Then a video from Jake showed up on Instagram. I scrolled past it twice. The third time I watched it. It was about the folder structure he used. I could see what he was building but I had no idea if it would actually work for me. After one week the results were way better than I expected. And it keeps getting better. Back to work. I wanted to find out what AI options were actually available within our company. So I showed my work to a few people. Turns out the company has a dedicated AI team already working with Claude. I didn't even know that. They told me I was further ahead than most people and that they loved seeing that I had picked up the folder structure the way I did. That is what convinced them. Only a few people in our entire organization have access to that environment. And now I'm one of them. Really happy about this 🚀🏆

​I often post about my wins with Claude Code or the progress on my book project, but there’s one part of the equation I haven’t touched on yet: Time. ​I’m lucky enough to be able to build a little during my work hours, but my primary focus is still being a Finance Manager. The real work happens when the house is finally quiet. ​But here is the reality: I have a 3-year-old and a 9-month-old. ​If you’ve been there, you know. My "second shift" starts after they are tucked in, but it’s always a gamble. Especially with a 9-month-old—you never really know how the night is going to go or how many times you’ll be woken up. ​The Internal Conflict: I’m a natural "A-person." I love waking up early and feeling fresh. But to get anything done on my private projects, I often have to push late into the night. ​I’m constantly trying to balance three things that all feel non-negotiable: ​Family Time: This is my fuel. I refuse to sacrifice being present with my kids. ​Sleep: As an early riser, I need sleep to function as a Finance Manager and a dad. ​Development: I have a deep drive to learn, build, and move my projects forward. ​The truth? Most days, it feels like I can only pick two. ​If I work late on a website or an automation, I’m a zombie the next morning. If I go to bed early to be a "good dad" at 6:00 AM, my projects stand still, which frustrates me. It’s a constant puzzle of trying to be "efficiently lazy" with the few hours I actually have. ​I don’t have a "5-step master plan" for this. I’m just navigating it one night at a time—sometimes winning, sometimes just trying to stay awake during a meeting. ​How do you guys balance this? For those of you with young kids, demanding jobs, and big goals—how do you find the space to create without burning out or missing the "golden years" with your family? ​I’m curious to hear how you prioritize when everything feels equally important. 👇