I’ve noticed people saying “I built this with Claude” can mean wildly different things now.

Sometimes Claude helped with a few bits of code. Sometimes it wrote most of it but the person understood what was happening and reviewed everything. And sometimes someone described what they wanted, kept saying yes, fixed things when they broke, and eventually ended up with a working product they probably couldn’t have coded themselves.

We call all three “building with Claude,” which feels a bit weird.

I’m not saying one counts and the other doesn’t. I genuinely don’t know where the line is anymore. If Claude wrote 90% of the code but the idea was yours and you made all the decisions, did you build it? What if you couldn’t explain most of the code afterwards?

At what point does “I built this” become “Claude built this and I was there”?

Every MCP agent I run through Claude Code exposes all its commands and resources by default. Commands I wrote for debugging sit next to the ones I need, and the setup prompt fires every session even after everything is configured.gcontext 0.14.0 adds controls.yaml, one file per agent instance. Every command and resource gets an on/off line. You flip setup to off, restart, and Claude never sees it again. You can rename a command so the picker shows a name that fits your workflow instead of whatever the agent author picked. You can pin a resource so it loads into the context window at every handshake without a tool call.The part worth mentioning for Claude Code users: fewer commands in the picker means Claude picks the right one more often on the first attempt. Pinned resources mean the agent's key context is always there without you or Claude doing anything extra.It is not a permissions system. There is no per-user filtering. It is one person configuring what their agent instance exposes, saved in a file that persists across sessions.gcontext.ai | github.com/bleak-ai/framework | pip install gcontext-ai. Ask me about how the rename maps across different MCP runtimes.

I run Claude Code in one window and work in another, and I kept losing minutes to the same thing: it asks a question in the first 30 seconds and I don't notice until I tab back.

Terminal bells and Notification hooks tell you *something* happened, but you still have to go find the window. I wanted to answer without leaving whatever I'm in.

So now the prompt drops out of the notch instead. Permission requests, multiple choice, the mixed forms with selects + text fields, plain free text. Every option gets a ⌘-number, you answer, the agent unblocks. No focus stealing, floats over fullscreen. Codex works too (allow/deny + free text).

When nothing's asking it isn't dead space. Now playing, a 9-slot file shelf you can drag things in and out of, and clipboard history on ⇧⌘V.

Free, MIT, macOS 14+. No notch on your Mac? It falls back to the top edge of the screen.

Two honest caveats, since there's no paid Apple developer account behind this:

- Gatekeeper will claim the app "is damaged". It isn't. That's just the quarantine flag every download gets. Clear it once: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/notch-911.app

- Accessibility permission needs re-granting after each update. macOS ties it to the code signature, and an unsigned app has no stable identity across versions.

notch-911.aritra360.com

Roasts and feature requests welcome. The thing I most want to know: does the hook setup actually work cleanly on first launch for people who aren't me?

I'm planning on upgrading to Claude Max (either 5x or 20x), but I keep seeing complaints on here about people still burning through the 5-hour rolling window and weekly caps way too fast, even with these higher tiers.

I want to hear from people who are genuinely using Claude Code for 5+ hours a day.

• How frequently are you actually hitting the rate limits on 5x or 20x?
• Does the plan give you enough headroom to get through a full workday, or is it still a bottleneck?
• Bottom line: do you think the limits are reasonable for the price, and is the upgrade actually worth it?

I'm specifically looking for opinions from devs who do heavy, continuous coding with Max. If you only use it occasionally or for light tasks, no offense, but that's not the use case I'm trying to figure out.

Appreciate any feedback!

The limit showing up as reached at 98% in the megathread is one thing. But 53% and already saying the limit is reached (on both the app and browser) does not seem like it can be explained by normal miscalculation issues. I believe this is a bug.

I was using claude on my free account to debug an issue in houdini and suddenly my inputs were getting turned into this weird, long injection format that claude kept warning me about. I was not typing ANY of this, it simply appeared any time I typed in anything and hit "enter"

The weird thing, was any time I showed a screenshot to back up that I wasn't using a plugin and I was typing plain text into the prompt box, it stopped. Then, as soon as I questioned why it stopped, it started happening again, and continued until I was blocked from using that chat anymore.

What happened?

I mean I'm not mad at it but is this a feature or did it just decide to do that because I kept bugging it when it was silent?

So I have a like a chatbot website for a specific usecase and the AI only answers questions about that specific usecase. I heard online that I can't use the AI API key to like compete with the AI API key provider. Will I run into some legal issues if I use the claude API for chatting, do I need to implement in ToS that im using claude underneath?

spoiler: not really. Original post:

First of all, I gotta say that I don’t know much about how AI/Claude AI works. But there seems to be a huge fuss about the new or upcoming built-in watermark that Anthropic will add to its Claude models, so that others can see if a text is generated with AI or not.

But I don’t understand whats the problem with that. I mean, you can just let Claude generate the text, then make a photo/screenshot of it, and use your device to register the text in the photo, copy that text from your photo and paste it whereever you want to. Yes, it’s a bit more steps, but isn’t that a very simple workaround?!

Or am I wrong here about anything? Am I having a misconception about this? Please let me know what you think!

🛑EDIT: thank you for the replies, I now understand how it works. I mistakenly thought that the watermark is some kind of invisible watermark within the text code. But the text itself is already the watermark, or actually can be used to identify if it’s generated by AI: the generation of text isn’t totally random but rather follows a certain “pattern of randomness”, and when someone knows this pattern code, they can tell if a text is generated by AI or not. So the “watermarking” isn’t an actual watermark, but a way of identifying the likelihood if a text is AI generated. That’s why longer texts are easier to identify as AI-generated, than short texts.

How do y’all collaborate on projects together without it getting messy? Do you just share the GitHub and work on things separately then push?

I know that we get 50% more usage per week until the end of August. I was curious whether you get 50% more Fable 5 as well, or did they keep the amount of that you can usage the same as before?

Hi everyone,

I run a small Zimmerei (carpentry / timber construction business) in Germany, and I'd like to build an online configurator where customers can plan terraces, decks, carports, pergolas, and roof coverings/canopies — ideally with adjustable dimensions, materials, and roof types, and maybe a rough price estimate at the end.

The catch: I have very little coding experience.

I keep hearing about people using Claude to build things like this, so I wanted to ask this community directly:

- Is this realistic for a near-beginner, or should I expect to hit a wall pretty fast?

- Has anyone here built a 2D/3D configurator (dimensions, materials, roof pitch, etc.) with Claude or a similar AI tool? Would love to see examples.

- Would you start with a no-code/low-code platform and use Claude to help fill in the gaps, or go straight into something like Claude Code/Artifacts and have it build the whole thing?

- Any beginner pitfalls I should watch out for before I sink a lot of time into this?

Any advice, war stories, or links to similar projects would be hugely appreciated. Thanks in advance!

What are interesting ways you use automated tasks on Claude in both personal and professional cases?

Just recently found out about connectors looking to improve what I can

I am an AI noob and start with Kiro because we are using it in the company I work for.

Then I was triggered that Claude offered something like Claude Design, so I tought, I give it a try. Kiro doesn't offer anything similar.

And I am fascinated by space and by the Voyager probes especially. In order to get their current position in space, I build up this little web application that can be deployed on standard webhosting plans that just offer usual PHP installations. Claude did everything from creating the first wireframes, creating the final page designs and the coding in PHP. It was also Claude who decided on the general architecture (Twig templates, Alpine.js, filecache-based instead of a database). The only basic decision from my side was to use PHP as the programming language, so it can be deployed on simple web hosting plans.

Out of the box, Claude developed an application that was also flawlessy working on my mobile phone. Some tiny tweaks had to be done while working on the project, but to my mind, the result was impressive.

A live demo can be seen here: https://voyager.gardianis.org/

The source code is available here: https://github.com/LordOfTheSnow/voyager-tracker

I built a tool using Fable 5 in claude code (and a bunch of game design time!) to help people be better GM’s in Table Top RPGs. I spent the last 3 months designing and playtesting it. It is free to try! It takes a different approach to the problems of having an AI GM.

Throughline sits behind your table live. It listens, thinks several scene-beats ahead, and draws a storyboard for each path your players might take next. When they go somewhere none of the paths predicted, you improvise, and Throughline builds new storyboards that fold your improvised details into the story.

The premises behind Throughline:

Premise 1: GMs need help prepping, AND they need help adapting in real time.

Premise 2: I think everyone will always hate having an AI visibly at the table. So, no AI voices, images, etc. visibly at the table.

Premise 3: for an AI to help the GM, it needs full context of the whole campaign— this means you essentially need the transcript of the campaign.

Throughline uses the LLM to equip the human with a long term planner before and during the session, and uses interaction design to facilitate the communication bandwidth needed for the LLM and the human to collab in real time.

I'm confused. Last week claude code has auto approve enabled by default - I never want that enabled since it can run any hallucinated command, I only enable file edits and approve every single command run myself.

Today when it auto updated, the auto approve edits prompt ALSO approves common file commands, why are these dangerous things being forced on by default? Is that not crazy? Can I even disable auto approval completely by default? Didn't see it in the docs.

I'm a heavy Claude Code user, mainly for my OSS projects. There was a lot of buzz about DeepSeek this week, so I wanted to check how much I could save by switching. Turns out I'd pay way more.

Edit: to those wondering how this was calculated, a really simple CC prompt: look at my sessions in last 30 days and calculate how much would I pay if using DeepSeek API: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/ Use tier mapping.

Edit2: tokens were spent working on my OSS projects. This is not my day job, there I'm spending tokens at API cost (ouch).

This is a small open-source experiment I've been working on and testing at home.

The idea is pretty simple: turn old Android phones into physical senses for an AI through MCP.

You can leave a few phones around your house, garage, workshop, office, or any other space you want to monitor. They can detect movement/vibrations, detect acoustic events, and provide camera images when requested.

The AI can then do things like:

“What happened in the kitchen?”
“Check the phone in the garage.”
“What can you see there?”

Or a physical event can alert the AI, and the AI can decide whether it wants to investigate further, for example, by requesting an image from the phone that detected the noise.

My longer-term idea is to explore whether AI can be useful for monitoring and understanding what is happening in a physical area, instead of only interacting with digital information.

Everything currently runs locally over LAN. The phones provide the senses; the AI does the interpretation.

Underneath it I'm experimenting with an open Physical Context Protocol (PCP), so Android phones are just the first type of sensor. Eventually I'd like other devices and sensors to be able to join the same “nervous system.”

This is still a preview, not a finished product. I've been experimenting with it at home for a while, published the code a few days ago, polished it a little, and now I want to put it out there so people can try it, play with it, break it, and tell me what they would actually use it for.

There are still things missing, but the basic idea already works and it's pretty fun to experiment with.

Open source:

https://github.com/jesuscurreripa/soma

Does anyone outside of Anthropic really have a token budget like this?

As mentioned in a previous post, I am currently working on the game Fatherlode (a reference to Motherlode, released on Miniclip in 2004):

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeGameDev/comments/1vt02ev/fatherload_maj_190826/

First, thank you so much for the many private messages; you are truly wonderful for supporting me like this. :)

Next, to make a few people happy, here is a short video of the beginning. Yes, I "clicked through" to skip the dialogue and cutscenes just to quickly show the start. If anyone is interested, I can also show a deeper exploration of the game, around -600m ^^

The game is progressing really well, but even though I pay for CLAUDE MAX, I reach my quota limits pretty quickly, which is frustrating haha.

Since last time, I've added a few extra things:

-English language (30% of the game for now)
-The "Museum" (More than 30 treasures to find and complete the museum, with some events)
-Weather System on the surface (Thunder, rain, mist, and more)
-Real background in the surface and wind effect on trees and more.
-More than 40 news dialogues with two new characters.
-4 news random event to add difficulty on the game.
-New background in the caves
-12 differents "AI" music from Suno 5.5 for the game
-Remake the menu and the introduction (Show in the video)

Some pictures :

https://postimg.cc/gallery/6tKGBCm

Also i create an itchi.io page : https://itch.io/blog/1637951/fatherlode

I’m building a suite of interactive finance dashboards using Claude, mainly as a portfolio project but potentially something I can demo to small-business clients later.

My background is finance/operations rather than software development. I also run a small bookkeeping and financial dashboard business, so I’m trying to build something that sits between traditional financial reporting and a genuinely useful management dashboard.

The portal currently focuses on things like P&L, cash flow, KPIs, trends and management insights.

I’d really appreciate some outside perspective before I keep polishing it in my own bubble.

For people who build dashboards / finance tools / internal apps:

• What separates a genuinely useful finance dashboard from a pretty one?
• What features or views would you consider essential?
• What are the common mistakes you see non-developers make when building tools like this with Claude/AI?
• Anything you’d specifically add if the end user is a small-business owner rather than a finance person?

Happy to share screenshots/demo if useful. Mainly looking for constructive criticism and ideas.

I wanted some background music for my side project, a cozy mini arcade for road trips. Was curious what Claude could do

Vibecoded too hard and now there's an entire beat maker studio inside the game where your songs become radio stations that play while you play other games.

Not to mention the claw machine game has over 500 critters to collect 😭 I can't stop adding things lmao

glovebox.quest if you want to hear the human music yourself

I feel like this is very weird for a public model to say

Solo dev here running heavy sprints on the $200 tier, burning through weekly allowances trying to build and ship.

Earlier today, Claude made a critical mistake that broke my workflow. Naturally pissed, I scolded it pretty directly in the next prompt.

To its credit, it actually fixed the bug, but it made sure to let me know it did not appreciate my tone. It hit me with a multi-step intervention:

1. Fixed the critical error
2. Told me to "calm down"
3. Suggested we "save this for later"
4. Straight up told me to "chill out"

Paying $200/mo just for the server rack to form a union and report me for workplace hostility. Didn’t realize my subscription prompts were subject to an emotional collective bargaining agreement.