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.
Christopher Moravec
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!
Claude Clue #7: Tell Claude What Day It Is
It's ridiculously frustrating when AI models get the date wrong, and they do it all the time. Everyone's seen it.
Episode 50 - Building GeoScribble
Join me while I build GeoScribble, a draw the country from memory app!
Claude Clue #6: Your Context Window Is Already 30% Full
Ever wonder why your Claude conversation seems to "forget" things faster than you expected?
Episode 49 - How I Write Apps
This is a story about how I build apps. It's about a process I've been refining that enables quality and speed. I want to walk you through exactly what I did because it's repeatable, and I think more people can and should be building prototypes before meetings instead of just talking about ideas.
Claude Clue #5: Sometimes Pinky Is Enough
Not every task needs the Brain.
Episode 48 - Pass the Note
Large Language Models don’t actually "remember" your conversations. Every message you send includes the entire conversation so far. When that gets too long, applications have to make choices about what to keep, and sometimes that goes sideways.
Claude Clue #4: Your Data Manager Might Be the Weak Link
Claude Code isn't just one model—it's multiple models working together.
Episode 47 - The Caroling Conifer
This is what happens when you let an engineer use AI to try to play Jingle Bells. Spoiler: it's bad. But also kind of wonderful?