Bruno Amaral

@brunoamaral.eu

I want the web to be a better place. Communication Strategist, Creative Tinkerer. Weirdness and occasional posts in Portuguese. Helping Multiple Sclerosis research with @gregory-ms.com and https://brain-regeneration.com

For me, having Claude run a search online or otherwise is a trap. It gets what I asked for + the kitchen sink. It's being thorough but it doesn't carry my intention and goal. I wanted to know about MS trials for a particular medicine in China, I got back "here's all about MS trials in China!"

Claude is very good at "unbreaking" clinical trial registries. This time it found a workaround to get permanent URLs in the Chinese Registry. And this isn't even the best, for the EU registry, it told me about an undocumented API.

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I accidentally ended up with a personal health tracker app on my phone after asking Opus 5 if there was a better way to save that information in Obsidian

I have over 29k open-access PDF articles right next to me. Properly indexed and named. They represent 5 years of all the #MultipleSclerosis research. Imagine if the cure is hiding in this box, and I'm too stupid to know how to open it. If anyone wants a crack at it, I'm happy to share. #datamining

The most interesting Fable tip I've heard so far is to let the model use its own judgement as much as possible I told it "For all coding tasks use your judgement to decide an appropriate lower power model and run that in a subagent" and it seems to be saving tokens simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/3/j...

Fable's judgement

One of the most interesting tips I got from the Fireside Chat I hosted with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at AIE on Wednesday was …

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