
· Jack Ivers · BRIEF
You Can't Know Claude Code Until You Try Another Coding Harness
Get outside the Claude bubble: only then will Claude Code's comparative strengths and weaknesses come into focus.

Get outside the Claude bubble: only then will Claude Code's comparative strengths and weaknesses come into focus.

I used Hermes Agent and Obsidian to build a knowledge refinery on my idle Mac Mini.

I built a Claude Connector that grants Claude native read-write fluency in Google Docs, over the weekend.

Everything accelerated, again, in Nov-Dec-Jan. Lots of people are noticing.

MCP Apps bring your custom UIs inside Claude. I built 4 and share what I learned: how they relate to MCPs and skills, rules of thumb, and more.

Anthropic brings Claude Code's plugin system to Cowork, along with a collection of knowledge work plugins and a slick customization system.