As someone who also recently spun up a new VPS to fiddle with claws:
I personally fully support Hetzner on this because, as a on-and-off customer since 21 years, their service has been absolutely flawless and always worth every cent. They care so I'm totally happy to pay whatever they need to make it work for them, too.
> What this does: apiKeyHelper tells Claude Code to run echo proxy-managed to get its API key. The sandbox’s network proxy intercepts outgoing API calls and swaps this sentinel value for your real Anthropic key, so the actual key never exists inside the sandbox.
My professional workflow with Claude Code goes as follows.
I call it "moonwalk" because, when throwing away the intermediate vibe-coded prototype code in the middle, it feels like walking backwards while looking forward.
- Check out a spike branch
- Vibe code until prototype feels right.
- Turn prototype into markdown specification
- Throw away vibe'd code, keep specification
- Rebase specification into main, check out main
- Feed specification to our XP/TDD agents
- Wait, review a few short iterations if any
- Ship to production
This allows me to get the best of vibe-coding (exploring, fast iterating and dialing-in on the product experience) and writing production-grade code (using our existing XP practices via dedicated CC sub-agents and skills.)
LOL, I got 100% nerd-sniped by my friend Sönke this week and wound up building a small spaceship.
On Monday he's like "Hey, what if you found obscure seed phrases embedded in public texts? You'd only need to remember the name of the book and the paragraph and go from there."
I honestly could care less about crypto(currencies) and I'm 100% sure this is like cryptanalysis 101. But, yeah, it seemed like an interesting problem anyways.
First, I downloaded a few hundred books from Gutenberg, wrote a ruby script and found BIP39 word sequences with a tolerable buffer for filler-words.
Then, I was like, okay, gotta now check them against actual addresses. Downloaded a list of funded ETH addresses. Wrote the checker in ruby. Ran it. No hits but this was now definitely weirdly interesting.
Because: And what if I downloaded the whole pg19 text corpus to scan! And what if I'd add BTC addresses! And what if I checked every permutation of the seed phrase!
Everything got really slow once I got to processing 12G of raw text for finding sequences and then checking a few million candidates with 44.000+ variations per candidate.
So, let's rewrite this into C! And since I've got 16 cores, let's parallelize this puppy! And since it's a MacBook, let's use GCD! Optimize all the things!
Lol, so NOW this thing is so fucking FAST. Takes four minutes to go through the full pg19 corpus and generates 64,205,390 "interesting" seed phrases. The fully parallelized checker (see Terminal screenshot) processes 460 derived addresses per second.
I really don't care if I get a match or not. I feel like I started with building a canoo and wound up with a spaceship is in itself just the best thing in the world.
Also a huge Eno fan here. Put together, I probably have listened to Music for Airports, Another Green World, Taking Tiger Mountain and Discreet Music more than any other artist. Maybe Philip Glass comes in at a close second.
Anyways, in 2016, Tero Parviainen (@teropa) shared this really cool long-form exploration called "JavaScript Systems Music – Learning Web Audio by Recreating The Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno" that I enjoyed tremendously (and I don't even like Javascript!)
Hi Max! Thank you for updating my mental model of AI detectors.
I was with total certainty under the impression that detecting AI-written text to be an impossible-to-solve problem. I think that's because it's just so deceptively intuitive to believe that "for every detector, there'll just be a better LLM and it'll never stop."
I had recently published a macOS app called Pudding to help humans prove they wrote a text mainly under the assumption that this problem can't be solved with measurable certainty and traditional methods.
Now I'm of course a bit sad that the problem (and hence my solution) can be solved much more directly. But, hey, I fell in love with the problem, so I'm super impressed with what y'all are accomplishing at and with Pangram!
Off-detail/on-topic: After 10 months of reading Pratchett's Discworld novels, I'm now reading the Cantebury Tales. And by golly, the tales are surprisingly accessible, entertaining and fun to read.
We're a classic XP shop. To build new features in our brown-field app, we defined about 8 sub-agents such as "red-test-writer", "minimal-green-implementer" and "refactorer".
Now all I do in Claude Code is: "Build this feature X using our TDD process and the agents." 30 minutes later the feature is complete, looks better and works better than what I would have built in 30 minutes, is 90% tested and is ready for acceptance testing.
Granted it took us years of working XP, pairing, TDD etc. but I keep feeling confused about posts like this.
We've been shipping production-grade code written 95% by AI for over a year now. Non-trivial, complex features.
There is no secret sauce even, in how we do this. It works. Really, really well for us.
We're practically a 100% XP shop compiled of ex-Pivots and Thoughtworks. Pairing, TDD and client-on-site as our baseline. We've also been using AI as part of our IDEs full-time for 2+ years.
Yet, the most unexpected thing happened this year on my team of 4 senior/staff-level developers:
Instead of "splintering/pairing off with AI" individually even further, we wound up quadrupling (mobbing) full-time on our biggest project to date. That meant four developers, synchronously, plus Claude Code typing for us, working on one task at a time.
That was one of the most fun, laser-focused and weirdly effective way of combining our XP practice with people and AI.
As someone who also recently spun up a new VPS to fiddle with claws:
I personally fully support Hetzner on this because, as a on-and-off customer since 21 years, their service has been absolutely flawless and always worth every cent. They care so I'm totally happy to pay whatever they need to make it work for them, too.