I had a lot of fun playing Claude and OpenRouter today, trying out new techniques, prompts and different models. I realize I’m about 6 months to 2 years behind a lot of people but this is truly the most fun I’ve had writing software in a long long time.
Just today I’ve:
- Diagnosed a bug with how I was added SSL to the miniflux installation
- Completely revamped my vimrc
- Completely revamped my zshrc
- “Wrote” a basic test harness and test suite for this blog (in bash, naturally)
- Played with 3-4 different models
- And most fun of all, I sat with our 9 year old this afternoon (who is home because of the strike) and wrote a complete browser-based store simulator, where you are a shopkeeper and have to do pricing and inventory management
And now I’m spending the evening reading about how best to use these tools beyond barking commands at them.