Nathan Labenz: commitment

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…Yeah, so yeah, so superpowers is a very nicely, very elegant little package of Claude's skills. It might be ported for Codex also, I'm not sure. That's the only thing I've really installed, like set of skills I've installed, and I can't, yeah, nothing else comes to mind. Yeah, like, there's all these weird little utilities that Claude has sort of grabbed on my behalf, like that hammer spoon thing, which is, again, you know, some deep, you know, like, deep, like, you know, Hacker News geek labor of love, I think, having glanced at it for three minutes and not really knowing what it is, but it's one of these, like, labor of love, incredibly arcane toolkits that has just, like, 9,000 integrations through AppleScript or something with, like, anything you can automate using a Mac OS API and, you know, Claude installed this entire giant thing just so I could click a button on the Juggler app, and it will open a terminal tab. Hmm. But so like-- I was wondering how you did it. I'm not sure what they are. But in terms of things I interact with directly, it's really bare bones. It's the built-in OS terminal app, and it's Claude code, and the superpowers. And I feel... silly about that. Like we live, there's such a wealth of tools out there, but I keep not encountering reasons to try anything more. What I do these days often is when I see something that people are excited about or, you know, whatever, that's the viral thing of the moment, I will ask clawed to dig into it and see what about it or what ideas in it might be useful to us. So rather than a direct install, it's kind of like a scouted out action first. And then rarely is it like, okay, actually, yes, let's pull that in. And more often it's like, oh yeah, there's a couple ideas here that were good and we can kind of apply them to our own tower of jello in our own way and probably get 90% of the benefit of the core ideas. And I feel better about that also from a security standpoint, which is so out of character for me to even be thinking about that at every turn. But I do feel like running it through that filter gives me confidence that I'm not doing something totally crazy. Yeah. Oh, that's a great point about security. And yeah, that seems like a very good approach and I have a whole document, like a list of links piling up of things like that to look at. And I never get around to looking at it.…

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