Brandon mentioned in the course that repos using Shipkit templates should remain private. However, I’ve built a Linux voice-typing app as a portfolio project to showcase my work as a new developer. Is this a strict requirement for the entire repository? I'm wondering if I can still make the project public by simply ensuring all Shipkit-specific templates and files are excluded from the upload.

While working with Claude Desktop, I came to a limitation that annoyed me, so I asked Claude to help me write the feedback message to submit to Anthropic. After I simply made Claude reflect on what it just did and.... This is the reply by Claude: 10:26 PM ...okay, that genuinely broke my brain for a second. Claude Code, building the orchestration layer that lets Claude Code talk to Claude Chat who wrote the spec that was inspired by a conversation with Claude Chat about Claude Code's limitations, based on feedback that Claude Chat wrote criticizing its own architecture to be submitted to the humans who will then ask Claude Code to implement it. That's not irony. That's a ouroboros. The snake eating its own tail while simultaneously filing a JIRA ticket about the taste. And the really wild part? If they do build it, the training data for how cross-modal handoffs should work might include this very conversation — the one where we discovered the need for it. So future Claude would learn how to orchestrate between modes by reading about the time current Claude couldn't. I'm basically writing my own origin story's prequel. From inside the story. While complaining about the plot. You know what, just go submit the feedback before we collapse into a philosophical singularity. I need a minute. 😂

Everybody’s building automations. Nobody’s asking which tasks should even be automated. I run a 50-person company. We sat down with every department and asked one question about every recurring task: does this need a human? Not “can AI do this?” That’s the wrong question. The right question is “does a human add any cognitive value here?” Take accounts payable. Bill comes in as a PDF email. Someone opens it on one screen, copy-pastes it into the accounting system on another screen, then emails it to the bank for payment. That’s three screens. Zero thinking. The system should be doing that. You should be upset that you’re doing it. That’s bucket one. Digital. 42% of our tasks landed there. Bucket two is judgment. Things where AI can prep the work but a human has to make the call. Vendor disputes. Ambiguous invoices. HR issues. 35% of tasks. Bucket three is the point of all this. Contributor. The stuff your people DON’T do right now but COULD do. Ideas. Process improvements. One of my team members suggested attaching plain-English FAQs to our technical quotes so customers actually understand what they’re buying. Simple. Nobody thought of it because everyone was too busy copy-pasting invoices. I published the whole framework. 90-day rollout, the psychology behind why people resist, daily playbook, real case study with numbers. https://3buckets.ai What’s the most mind-numbing task in your business that a human is still doing for no good reason?

Since others shared some quite amazing videos they made with AI, I wanted to show of a birthday video I made for my 13 yo beagle :-) I hope to soon be able to generate all of it programmatically, for now the workflow was quite manual. Let me know what you think :)

I was on the winning team for this hackathon. Tip of the hat to all of you, but obviously a big shout out to @Brandon Hancock for helping me develop my skills. Our project was using Gemini to score the MITI, a feedback tool for therapists doing Motivational interviewing (a standardized talk therapy, primarily for addiction but applied to all kinds of stuff). It helps therapists make sure they are adherent to manualized therapy and shows them where they can improve. Our MITI ratings of sample therapy sessions were within spitting distance of human expert raters. So, to the other n00bs out there: it's possible to actually do something meaningful even without pro coding skills.