Claude Clue #12: Let Claude Spawn More Claudes Claude Code can spin up multiple Claudes to work in parallel, and it is genuinely one of those features that feels a bit like magic!
Episode 55 - Esri Releases Agent Builder tools in the ArcGIS SDK for JavaScript 5.0 I built a web app called Palm Springs Eats AI, where you can chat with a map of restaurants near the convention center.
Claude Clue #11: What Hides Behind the '/' The `/` menu in Claude Code has quietly become a treasure chest.
Episode 54 - I Got a Chrome Extension Built in Under an Hour TL;DR - A friend built me a Chrome extension that generates alt text for images using the surrounding page content for context. It took less than an hour.
Claude Clue #10: Give Your Codebase a Health Checkup Your codebase accumulates tech debt. It doesn't matter if humans wrote it, AI wrote it, or some messy combination of both.
Episode 53 - Building an Experience Builder Widget with Claude Code I demo how to build an Experience Builder widget using Claude Code and it works!
Claude Clue #9: Let Your Models Fight Each Other One of the most useful things I've found is putting models in adversarial roles against each other!
Episode 52 - The Best of Year One ✨ This week, to celebrate one year of AEH, Holly and I review our favorite posts and I make some comments about what it is like writing a newsletter every week!
Claude Clue #8: Train Your Model on Today, Not Yesterday Claude's training data has a cutoff date, which means the libraries it "remembers" are frozen in time—security flaws and all.
Episode 51 - Building Spiel - A Voice Dictation App I used Claude Code to build a voice dictation app called Spiel. It uses OpenAI's Whisper for transcription, has an optional AI cleanup step with a prompt that I can control, and it only took me one evening to make!