
· 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.

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.

I built an MCP that lets Claude see its own Excalidraw diagrams, iterate on them, and save them to Obsidian.

Peter Steinberger's move to OpenAI marks the end of the saga; or Part 1 anyway.

Thanks to The Workflow and my AI pair, Claude Opus 4.6.