Claude Clue #13: Know Your Limits (And Have a Backup Plan) Here's a fun way to start your work week: burning through 80% of your weekly Claude usage by Tuesday morning!
Episode 56 - The Levels of AI Assisted Software Development There are four levels of AI coding available today, from fancy autocomplete to full agentic engineering. The interesting stuff starts at Level 2. And Level 3 is where it gets weird.
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 โจ 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!