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You just saw how video production turns into code. Vote below, then tell us in the comments: what is one repetitive creative task in your work that could become a pipeline?
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@Jake Van Clief @Matthew Creamer are you still willing to share your specs, scripts and designs by email? If so, can I DM you my email? FWIW your only the second person who’s described HOW to use AI in a way that my brain gets — Hannah Stulberg from DoorDash is the other, both of you are focused on files trees and software design applied to AI workflows. I was in the valley of despair w AI adoption and see me rising out of tha dip. Grateful
Your Claude experience has two surfaces. Customise both.
Most people customise Claude in one place: The prompt. The two surfaces that actually shape every session, you ignore. How Claude talks to you, and how you read what's happening. Both are configurable. Both compound across hundreds of hours. The framework I run, and how to set it up: Surface 1: The voice Claude has defaults. They're fine. They're not yours. I'm dyslexic. Walls of text are invisible to me. So my Claude has a non-negotiable response format, written into ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md: Every reply ends with a bold marker: → DECISION, → QUESTION, → NO DECISION NEEDED. I know what's required of me in under three seconds of skimming. Header tier = importance, not nesting depth. # is THE headline. ## is a main section. #### is an inline label. The size matches how load-bearing it is to read. `mono font` is reserved for paths, values, commands. Never for emphasis. The font swap is a signal. --- between major pivots like status to decision. The horizontal rule is the unmissable section break. Bold keywords inside sentences. Dyslexic eyes skim for bold anchors. Absolute paths only, so cmd+click opens them from inside the terminal. If you also use Codex, mirror the same rules to ~/.codex/AGENTS.md. Two harnesses, one voice. Surface 2: The interface The Claude Code statusline runs once per turn, costs zero tokens, can render colour. Mine shows: 47% · opus-4.7 · WORKSPACE · main* · 2🛠 · 02:41 Six fields: context %, model, workspace name, branch + dirty flag, dispatch worker count, session clock. Colour-coded by zone. Context % goes green under 50%, yellow at 50-75%, red at 90%. Branch yellow when dirty, red on conflict. Workspace gets a brand colour mapped from the path I'm in. The 50% threshold matches the rule already written into my voice config: write a session handoff at 50% context. Now I can see the threshold without asking. How to set this up Customise the voice. Open ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md. Write your own rules. Mine took an afternoon to draft and three weeks of iteration to lock down. Yours will start ugly. That's fine.
Your Claude experience has two surfaces. Customise both.
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Useful on the architecture and the color coding - that’s a good design piece. Second time I’ve heard in in last two days. First time was Hannah Stulberg from DoorDash
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