How Claude Projects and iPhone Duo Are Similar | ✉️ #102

Hey! 👋

It's been almost 2 months since we published my rather length article The Agentic Engineering Myth. What changed since then in my setup?

First, I stopped using Codex directly. I just couldn't stand how it works anymore. Instead, Claude is now starting new Codex sessions for me - ensuring that the work stays on track, while making sure tokens get burned efficiently.

Second, I am now using exclusively Claude Projects, one project per repository. My most active project currently has 358 coordinated and closed threads, with over 1,000 PRs shipped. Claude Projects was a missing piece to work in a sane work on dozens of things within a single codebase. It's also close to what DeepSeek describes as a Super Agent​

Third, I am adopting parts of "Poteto Stack". I didn't just copy all of it, but I did copy at least half of it. Most important piece is described in the author's article: verification. It was kind of clear before, that agents need this verification more than anything, but depending on the project I sometimes slack on making it a core part of the flow. I think Claude Projects already push threads towards verification too, but having in-repo set of skills and a separate Beads epic to wrap your process with (relatively thin) pstack convention helps a lot.

Fourth, I am more heavy on Claude Artifacts than before, using it all the time to build me per-epic status boards, live updated from PRs and conversations. User experience of Artifacts is incredible.I am also exploring formal verification, as it becomes more and more critical. I do still use Beads, synced sometimes with GitHub Issues or Basecamp Cards.

As you can see, it's quite a lot of change in how I work in just a 2 months period. Hard to say what I will keep and what else I will introduce going forward, but the setup keeps evolving, and yours should too.

At very least, you should try new things to make your brain work in a new environment and build some new habits. This is what I am also doing by switching to iPhone Duo - it's fun and surprising how much different it feels from a standard smartphone. At the same time, I picked up Pixel 11 for some upcoming Android clients for some of the apps - and this one challenges my brain almost as much as Duo.

Keep swapping your daily drivers for (different) alternatives. It's good for your brain, even if you won't end up keeping those alternatives long term.

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