Richard Kovacs

@richardkovacs.dev

Full-stack developer & security trainer by day, working on side projects by night | Posting about both | Building fyzz.chat

I honestly don't get why everyone is baffled at Anthropic watermarking generated text when Google was doing it long ago with SynthID in Gemini. Not that I agree or disagree with the fact, I just don't see what's new this time.

Added a small extra to the status line of PAL. Now I can see whether I am over or below the sustainable daily usage. If the day is green, I have underused Claude so far and can use it more in the remaining days.

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Klint received tons of new features and fixes over the week: - Rust support - C# support - NuGet package - Comment density support - Native package exclusion - 80% runtime reduction (from ~10s to ~2s) - Comment exclusion Agents need less and less steering every day with klint.

Claude Code on my phone ended doomscrolling for good. The only thing missing from it is the harness memory accumulated on my Mac over the months. Thankfully, I can export and import that in two clicks with PAL.

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I don't understand why don't more people use a cross-agent harness. There are plenty of them. It is the simplest way to protect yourself from providers increasing prices and locking you in. You don't even have to pay for them, many of them are free.

There's no better use case for an unused gaming PC than to turn it into a remote Claude Code workspace. Doomscrolling in my free time ended the second I could talk to my desktop agent from my phone.

Alex Hormozi said in a recent video that the reason you are not more successful with AI is that you didn't automate the bottlenecks. - Coding wasn't the bottleneck. - Writing copy wasn't the bottleneck. - Sending one email wasn't the bottleneck.

The more you can verify automatically, the faster and better you will ship with AI. There's simply no excuse not to write unit tests when working with AI agents and building something real. If your harness is able to verify work, you can let agents run alone much longer.

777 green unit tests

This is a dream coming true for me! 🙏 I have a working and approved multi-platform, social media scheduler. LetterBox has passed Meta's app review recently and now it is open for real Threads users too, not just testers. Welcome everyone! 👋

Approved Threads access rights screenshot

Prompts are suggestions. Hooks are guarantees. When your agent violates a rule, instead of thinking "I should add this to CLAUDE.md" you should ask the following question: How can I prevent/ensure this behavior with a deterministic hook? Then sit back and relax. You did it.

Claude Code has a misleading name. Most people don't know you can use it for almost everything. Some ideas: - It does my taxes (accountant verified) - Writes sales offers for me - Creates document templates - Creates presentations - Watches YouTube videos

My favorite new feature in LetterBox is to see which part of the text is still above the fold. Insanely useful, and took like 2 minutes to add. Not 100% correct, as the exact calculation is complex, but close enough to still be helpful.

Screenshot of LetterBox' post editor showing a yellow "...more fold" indicator when the text is over a certain limit and LinkedIn would hide parts of it.

There are two types of developers. Those who understand that their profession as they have known it is over. And those who are afraid they will be jobless. One is happy about AI and uses it every day, the other is paralyzed. Which one are you?

For me, hooks are the thing that turned vibe coding into agentic engineering. CLAUDE.md is good, but it is often ignored. It is essentially just a suggestion. But hooks are always there, and they are deterministic. I build all of my agentic tooling around hooks.

Overview - Claude Code Docs

Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and integrates with your development tools. Available in your terminal, IDE, desktop app, and browser.

claude.md