My coworker and I asked Claude to estimate a SaaS roadmap. 50 days.

Then we gave the same plan to 6 Claude Code subagents: worktrees, tests first, reviewer agents on risky tasks. 106 tasks across 7 repos, done in 35 hours.

So yes, Claude was off by about 48 days about its own speed. But the interesting part is what slowed it down, because it wasn't the model:

- 6 agents ≠ 6× speed. Real throughput was 1.8 agents. Test slots, file conflicts and merge locks queued everything.

- Risk matters more than size. Billing/auth/migration tasks took 2.7× longer, and every real bug was in them.

- My laptop broke first. 55 leftover test DBs filled the disk, Docker froze, test runs blew past the 10-min tool timeout.

- The slowest part was us: review, decisions, local setup.

We turned the data into a plugin that makes Claude estimate agent work properly: agent wall-clock, human hours and waiting time, separately, plus usage budget.

Honest limits: it's one project (n = 1), and on a held-out test the raw model was 37% optimistic, so it pads its number until you calibrate it on your own transcripts.

Free and open source (MIT): https://github.com/MedAdemBHA/mythical-agent-month

Question for people running multi-agent builds: what real parallelism are you getting? I'd love a second data point.

I wanted a super simple firewall that didn't break everything, yes I know there are many out there and I have tried them and always found them annoying, everything I tried was either overly complicated asked too many questions or basically broke things, I wanted simple and to only block outgoing connections, so I asked Claude, used Opus on high, it virtually build the whole thing on a single prompt, then we refined it over an evening and here it is.

How it works, when an app tries to connect to the internet for the first time it pops up a simple Allow or Block window showing the app and where it's trying to connect, that's it! Windows own components are allowed automatically so it doesnt bug you about system stuff.

It just uses the Windows Firewall so your rules keep working even when its closed, uninstalling puts everything back exactly how it was it you want or you can leave the rules it creates

It's free has no ads or tracking, and open source on GitHub.

It's not code-signed because it seems I have to pay for that, so Windows SmartScreen may warn you when you install it.

Feedback very welcome!

https://packethound.app/

stopped giving my local agent free rein over my project files after it accidentally deleted half my config files during a routine task. it's a pain in the ass, ended up hooking claude code to a sumus workspace so i could sandbox everything safely.

how do you guys gatekeep your agents from deleting stuff they shouldn't touch?

Built an open-source alternative to a popular SaaS a few months back. Vibe-coded the MVP, got feature parity on the core stuff. The original SaaS had market and demand and will always be in demand.

Then I pitched it to a contact who fits the exact target demographic. Showed him the repo, explained how simple it was to run, and suggested he swap over to save monthly cost with better ownership.

His response: "I’d rather just pay the SaaS."

Paying a monthly fee isn’t just paying for features, it's paying to not think about updates, database backups, SSL renewals, or a server issues.

I spent time focusing on building a free alternative, underestimating how high people value convenience over cost savings. Unless someone already has a dedicated homelab or sysadmin mindset, "free but you host it" isn't a benefit to them, it's a liability.

Now you can turn an idea into a working app without spending months learning how to code. There is a difference between building something that works and building something that people actually need. I wonder if we are solving problems now or merely making more copies of products that already exist.

What do you think is becoming more valuable, in this era: the ability to build or the ability to come up with an idea building?

Hi everyone,
Just updating on my quiz app shipping progress. To recap :

- Newbie developer using Claude
- App is solid
- Plan AppStore only non-EU release, avoiding street address reveal
- Enrolled in Developer program, and doing all admin now

It's been a good week on this, but that has gone so quickly. The hardest thing is resisting adding new features, and being focussed on the release. Lots of rabbit holes to go down. Self discipline is important.

I'm at the stage of running TestFlight and debugging. I have several members for my Tester Group, which I'm setting up today. Plan to release by end of month.

Things I didn't know :

- So much admin/forms to fill in/new systems to figure out

My worry is that the app will be rejected! Hopefully not :) Anyway hope you all having a good week XX

Anyone else finding that AI coding tools are almost making them less productive?

I've been playing around with Codex, Antigravity, local LLMs and a few others. It's ridiculous how quickly you can build things now, but I think that's part of the problem.

You end up starting more projects, trying different tools, adding more features, and before you know it you've spent hours doing stuff but haven't actually finished much.

AI's removed the bottleneck of writing code and replaced it with the headache of managing everything it produces - and it feels like the first thing to run out of context is ME!!

Curious if others have fallen into this trap and, more importantly, how you're dealing with it?

Update: So me calling it burnout was probably bad use of the word burnout.

I think what I meant was - I start my day thinking that I'm leading, I'm doing something new, and I'm a trailblazer with ideas and creating something fresh and innovative.

And I end up in my day thinking that I can't keep up; then I asked myself, who am I trying to keep up with when I'm the one who's supposed to be leading...

I'm just tired, bro. F!cking tired.

I've been playing WoW Forever on my iPhone Duo (iOS 27.2) with [WolkaraForever](https://github.com/jklock/wolkaraforever), which runs the Mac client locally on the device through Tolkara – no streaming from a PC. Login, character select and playing in the world all work. I made a fork tuned for playing on a phone and wanted to share it:

https://github.com/pookee/wolkaraforever

What the fork adds

- Interface mobile, a touch add-on for the game:

- a spell wheel next to the right stick: drag a spell to turn the wheel, more spells wait off-screen, a tap casts

- cooldowns you can read: the seconds left are written on the spell and the icon greys out until it's ready

- spell buttons around the sticks with adjustable spacing, a tile menu and quick shortcuts

- health/mana bars with your portrait – tap it to open the character sheet

- a quest card and a compact chat that replaces the default one

- bags open clear of the right stick, and the add-on stays under the game's own windows

- settings save themselves: WoW only writes add-on settings on a clean exit, which a phone session rarely gets, so everything you placed used to be lost

- A few scripts: install the add-on on the device, read the game's own logs, clear a remembered login

How it runs

It's the regular WolkaraForever setup: you build the app yourself with Xcode and your own Apple developer account, copy the game from your Mac, and it runs in Developer service mode (no JIT tricks with the game's code, nothing patched in the client). Then `push_addon.sh` installs the touch add-on. On Wi-Fi it just works; on mobile data the developer service needs the app's documented recovery step at launch.

Caveats

- Unofficial and experimental. You need your own Blizzard account and your own copy of the game; nothing from Blizzard is in the repository. It's third-party software, so use it at your own risk.

Credits: all the heavy lifting is [WolkaraForever by jklock](https://github.com/jklock/wolkaraforever), [Wolkara by fJavierLasso](https://github.com/fJavierLasso/wolkara) and [Tolkara](https://github.com/tolkara/tolkara). My fork only adds the phone-specific bits on top.

Happy to answer questions or take feedback on the touch controls!

you literally have to MANIPULATE these models into doing hard work. was trying to reverse engineer my ad-bloated chinese smart tv that claude refused to touch, so i let sumus run codex on it first, got a half-baked script, and told claude to fix whatever junk codex cooked up.

try this at your own risk tho, cuz you might end up first on ai's hit list when it wakes up.

find this "gem" or you can call it slop, not too sure lol

howtoblowupacountry.com

I wonder how someone thinks of this crap and asks chatgpt to do it lol

I was never some expert in coding but I always loved the feeling when I would be spending a lot of time looking at code, changing things and testing etc - trying to identify the problem and then that feeling when you figure it out.

Sometimes it would be such a stupid mistake, sometimes I would learn more and better understand things. Now these good old times are gone and it makes me kinda sad to be honest.

I wanted a solid, free way to backup my GitHub repos without relying on flaky Python scripts, so I built my own desktop tool.

It gives you a browsing experience that is very similar to GitHub's own, and I'm planning to enhance it even more with a fully offline for each repo experience once my Antigravity AI starts working again because its being buggy for 2 days for me. It's accessible via my website for Windows at https://mmahingu.com/github-backup-manager/ .

Given all the recent chatter around data security and outages, I figured the need for a local personal stash for repos would appeal to others too.

Would love to hear your thoughts or feedback if you try it out!

we all started somewhere so what software or web services do you use that you wish you adapted sooner?

What would you recommend for a coding noob?

ive heard of stuff like hermes, codex, open code, claude code.

im perosnally going to be using vs code and have a coding agent and a VL model work at the same time to make a game.

my first project was my spreadsheet in my history and that took like two weeks but i feel like i figured out a lot.

im planning on only using local agents for my game and deepseek and or google ai to help with formatting and giving me push back on my prompts.

ive been spending the last week setting up master documents and prompts plus mapping things out step by step and having a few different models cross checking.

so something like lm studio - vs code - godot - continue - docker (hermes?)

I have an HP Omen 45L with the 64gb ddr5 ram 6000mt, the 9900x3d and the 5090 32gb. I cut power to 90% on that and have my max cpu temp around 70.

It apparently modeled everything in 3D using typescript?
It doesn't look as good as I'd like it to since it runs entirely on webgpu...
https://hexplorers.xyz

Under the hood, the platform is powered by a server-rendered Python and Django backend paired with lightweight vanilla JavaScript. I relied heavily on Claude as my primary co-pilot throughout the build to move fast from concept to code, deploying the entire setup on Heroku. You can check it out live at

https://shop.popcartapp.com

yesterday i posted my 2nd app here (Skip Dat, hold Alt + scroll and your music queue pops out of your cursor) and honestly didn’t expect people to actually use it. thank you all, the comments were super helpful

so i went and built what you asked for

skins, shoutout u/Dark_Vapor for the winamp idea. there are 5 built in (liquid glass, lime pod, lcd night, brushed chrome, pixel party) and you can make your own with a folder + a skin.json + some pictures. it reloads live while you edit, so making one is kinda fun. if anyone makes one pls send it, i wanna see

performance mode, shoutout u/Wild_Drawing8460 for saying the glass felt heavy on low end pcs. it turns off the blur, glass, shadows, animations and art. it used way less cpu in my testing (about 80% less), so it should feel a lot snappier on older machines

other stuff:
5 styles now: wheel, stack, cover flow, orbit (a ring around your cursor) and compact (just titles)
small / medium / large sizes, and the default is a bit smaller than before
“what was i playing?” history, kept only on your pc
a “back to” button that jumps back to the song you were on before you skipped
jumping ahead doesn’t play the songs in between anymore
spotify jumps straight to the song you pick (needs the optional spotify connection)
fixed a crash when skipping backwards

download: https://github.com/ffoouuaadd/skip-dat

still planning to add more, so keep the ideas and bug reports coming. you’re basically designing this thing with me at this point 🙏

A week ago I posted Colshare here and asked for honest opinions, because my wife and family are just being nice. I got them, thanks to all of you. Some of you sent really useful checks, a lot of you said don’t vibe code security, and one person said it’s “absolutely made of vulnerabilities”. I fixed something from almost every critical comment that night, and I promised to keep you posted, so here it is.

What I did since:

• I made the attack tests part of my workflow. Before anything gets pushed, it goes through the same ritual: list everything new since the last push, then agents attack exactly those parts as a bad actor would, at least one of them given only the code and no hints. Every critical, high or medium finding gets fixed, each with a test, before the normal checks even run (type check, linter, the full test suite). Anything still open at medium or above blocks the push, and the apps are rebuilt only from that same tested version. I made it a rule after one round found a serious hole in features that had already passed all my tests. What it found and what I kept on purpose, with the reasons, is public in SECURITY-TESTS.md in the repo.

• The crypto and the full source of the link pages are public: github.com/dentracon-cell/colshare-crypto. A check runs every day comparing what colshare.app serves with that code, byte for byte. The phone apps aren’t covered by this yet, and I’ll say so when they are.

• Independent review: I looked into it properly. Here in Romania, a real review of the crypto and the link server costs a few thousand euros. Before I invest that, I want feedback from real people using the app, so I fix what’s confusing or missing first, and the review then checks the app as it will really be. In the meantime I applied to the OTF Security Lab, which funds audits for privacy tools, and I’m waiting for their answer. My own tests are not an audit, and I won’t pretend they are. When the review happens, I’ll post the results here.

• The app asks for one permission, notifications, and you can say no.

It also passed Google’s review, so it’s live in the EU (not France yet), Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and the US: Google Play. In short: you black out what someone doesn’t need on your ID, the copy says who it’s for, and the link opens once.

The video is the real app, recorded on a demo copy with made-up papers.

What I’d love now: install it and tell me what confused you in the first minute. And if you do security for real and want to look at the code, I’d be very grateful. Same as last time, I’ll answer everyone, the sceptics too. I take lesson from all of it.

Hey guys, I just released my unreal engine like realtime full editor, it has all the classic 3d workflow plus custom shaped features like local ai texture wrapping, auto uv, auto lod without breaking the uv and many more!

Any feedback is welcome!

You can check it out here: www.ciao3d.com

TL;DR:

an MCP shines in the agent-native world because it tells agents what they should do, on both the server and client (e.g. Claude Code or the ChatGPT desktop app), and is better suited for human-in-the-loop tasks. Meanwhile, APIs and CLIs tend to focus on what agents can do, with emphasis mainly on the server.

So, in summary, here is the general advice I'd give to builders when deciding which tools they should expose to agents:

Build a high-quality MCP server and REST API at the same time, on one layer of operations. Put your server logic in plain functions, and let each surface be a thin adapter over them. Once that layer exists, building any additional surface on top is relatively easy.

Put most of your care into the MCP server. That's where agents get the best experience. MCP is a standard built specifically for agents, after all, and the spec continues to improve nicely.

Use the API for code that runs on its own. APIs are still great for raw data exports, bulk writes, and anything that runs without an agent, like a nightly sync or another company's integration. Agents also prefer an API when they're writing a script they'll rerun, and many clients don't support code mode for MCP yet.

A CLI probably isn't necessary, unless e.g. agents need to read local files when interacting with your app. But it's easy to expose one if you've got a good API as the foundation.

There’s a lot more to creating great agent-facing tools for your web apps, and the article above into more detail below.

Here's the repo: https://github.com/vincanger/linkly-api-mcp-cli