Co-Founder & CTO https://nitter.gq/t.co/Qfrg8WflAR (YC S24). Ex-Facebook, GoJek
San Francisco, California
Joined April 2010
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Lessons from reverse engineering Claude Code on how to recreate it's magic in other domains.
Many posts on Claude Code internals aren't very actionable and often seem like AI generated data dumps. We analysed our own usage data over the last 2 months, evaluating it before incorporating it into our agent. Now @nuwandavek has distilled what's worked into some actionable heuristics that practitioners should find super useful :)
how is @claudeai's claude code so damn good and how can you recreate its magic in your own llm agent/workflow?
intercepted all cc calls over the last few months and wrote up a 2k word guide on this! (all prompts, tools linked in comments)
main takeaways (0/3):
0. debuggability >>> everything else. most of the magic is in designing good (low and high level) tools and prompts to let the model shine. keep it simple
I never thought I'd ever switch from Claude Code but Astra is such a better experience!
And Claude isn't helping it's case when it silently switches you from Fable 5 to Opus 4.8. Like why not Opus 5 at least? Super infuriating experience
God Damn!
new weekend sideproject: isopolis.city
this is SF simcity meets ghibli during the opening credits of silicon valley. explore SF and take the tours!
made with my ragtag team of coding agents. welcome to the golden era of side projects!
I often see praise about OpenClaw but rarely about pi, the elegant agent-harness powering it.
I think programmers (as @pmarca once was) are just more likely to look a layer deeper
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won the @SemiAnalysis_ @fluidstack hackathon and got a beautiful Jensen signed DGX spark! we built a toy distributed GPT training stack over webgpu - go to a website on your browser and contribute gradients! (blogpost coming soon)
an afternoon well spent @ppsreejith_ :)
Winners have been crowned. 🏆
🥇 [1ST PLACE] 🥈 [2ND PLACE] 🥉 [3RD PLACE]
Incredible builds from an incredible group. Thank you Fluidstack for making this happen at #GTC2026🔥 @dylan522p
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What it’s like at GTC, just casually run into the winners of @SemiAnalysis_ hackathon with the SIGNED Spark.
Vibes in the city: Hype AF
Day well spent indeed! Hacking together a browser based distributed GPT training stack with @nuwandavek (& Winning!)
And what a pleasure it was to meet @dylan522p after listening to his podcast on the way to the hackathon!
Such a fun hackathon @SemiAnalysis_ @fluidstack :)
Winners have been crowned. 🏆
🥇 [1ST PLACE] 🥈 [2ND PLACE] 🥉 [3RD PLACE]
Incredible builds from an incredible group. Thank you Fluidstack for making this happen at #GTC2026🔥 @dylan522p
Warning: Solving browser automation challenges with a few lines of Javascript have been known to trigger seizures
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minusx memory: minusx md
i love using claude code and one of the main reasons it is so good is the ability to just state your preferences via claude md file. but this is totally absent in analytics, where the problem is 100x worse - custom definitions, custom metrics, specific slices you want to see, etc.
Between work, in rare moments of abyss-staring I think of this poem by an anonymous fan of Nick Land's "Hell Baked" and it reminds me to be grateful
See endless forms most beautiful
Arise from chance and constant strife.
Descent with virtues mutable
Gives grandeur to this view of life.
Like waxing love between two lovers,
All Life becomes what it discovers:
The algae learn to coat the sloth
As grimy soot makes dark the moth.
But barren death a creature’s fortune?
And where went all the slow gazelles?
Behind each splendid yoke of cells,
A billion years of live abortion.
As sharp teeth shaped the spiral shell,
All worthy things were built in Hell.
Anyone else thinking how one of the stories from @CoryDoctorow 's Sci-Fi short story collection, Radicalized just turned super real?
goodreads.com/book/show/4144…
TIL that @benthompson's Stratechery is now on YouTube: youtube.com/@Stratechery. If you haven't already, definitely checkout his analysis (esp if you're in tech/a founder)!
