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As a personal side project, I've been prototyping a video game. As a former games founder, the process of making a game is deeply satisfying and creative, don't outsource that to AI. Use AI to work with you to bring your vision to life. Here's how I'm trying it:

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 30/09/2026

have you tried telling Claude "we have the power to do anything, please be braver" also, have you tried telling yourself

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 29/09/2026

I was on the latent space podcast with Swyx and Vibhu! Overall it was a really fun deep dive into lots of topics from harness engineering to pacing the frontier. Here are some of my favorite clips. 1/ Smart models need less verification which makes them pareto dominant.

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 28/09/2026

I just told Claude "can you help me think through this problem step by step"

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 28/09/2026

A lot of times when I talk about higher level abstractions like projects, claude tag and dynamic workflows, I hear concerns about token cost. With Sonnet + Opus 5.5 I think this sort intelligence is should be very available. Try Sonnet 5.5 in particular when making workflows.

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 28/09/2026

it's basically impossible for someone to just "show you their prompt" now, because everything is about references, skills and examples I often ask my agent to look at 3 other repos I've made first, search the web for references, use other AI APIs, etc.

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 28/09/2026

dating myself with neopets I fear

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 27/09/2026

I am most afraid of us eating the productivity gains of agents by just becoming lazier.

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 26/09/2026

Just about 1 year ago I posted one of the first posts about using Claude Code to make videos. Each of these actually took a long time to iterate with Claude and get right, pointing out details that were wrong, etc. Crazy how far things have come.

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Use Claude Code as your Video Editor Believe it or not, every video you see below was vibe coded by Claude Code. 🧵 here’s how you can do it too:

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 25/09/2026

What is effort really? When do you change it it and why not just use max effort for everything? I dove deep into this problem, looking into evals and doing my own tests and I was quite surprised by the results. x.com/i/article/2103535187426709504

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 25/09/2026

What are specific requests in Claude Computer/Browser Use that have failed for you? We want to fix. An example for me is: "pay my barber $40 through my personal paypal" (where paypal is logged into my 2nd chrome profile, I'm logged out but password is saved)

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 25/09/2026

incredibly thoughtful piece on AI and creativity hopefully we can make our producst better at enabling and amplifying creatives

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2102774995315245469

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 24/09/2026

lots feedback here, many of you are planning yourself & don't need plan mode others prefer the UX of entering a mode where Claude is just thinking & brainstorming with you my plan is to: - make plan mode into a built-in mod - allow mods to add new modes or override shift+tab

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 24/09/2026

my rule for sharing Claude output (PRs, artifacts, messages) is that I only do it if I would be happy sharing the prompts

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 23/09/2026

the post: "Claude one-shot this" the prompt: 10k characters with good takes plus skills, examples and API keys

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2102801469976248500

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 23/09/2026

this is a new type of post we're trying where we share in-depth about how we do work using specific prompts and techniques you should be able to replicate let us know if it's useful or if you have any feedback!

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2102839691154427983

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 23/09/2026

we’re thinking of killing plan mode and using the shift+tab hotkey to adjust effort levels I don’t think the models need plan mode anymore, but if you’re a plan mode diehard would love to get your feedback on why

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 23/09/2026

the right way to use model capabilities is not to ship 10x more features to prod it's to spend more time understanding your users, trying experiments, building prototypes, learning about things you don't understand so that you can ship things that actually work

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 22/09/2026

I asked Opus 5.5 to try a bunch of redesigns of my personal website using my MAX sub, using workflows to iterate and critique. I was really pleased with how it hit the tone I was looking for. Then I asked it to make a trailer with all of its iterations.

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 22/09/2026

Opus 5.5 is the result of your feedback. It communicates clearly, it's cheaper per token than Opus 5.0 with the intelligence of Fable 5.1, it’s very token efficient and works across every effort level. We're also increasing 5h rate limits & giving you a banked reset.

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2102435511222890900

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 22/09/2026

I now type "use big pictures and few words" several times a day

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 21/09/2026

there is something about video games that give high stakes and responsibilities to young people who couldn’t really get them irl but it is a fine line and at some point you need to graduate

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2101215169837691356

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 18/09/2026

We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. You can toggle this behavior in /config.

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 17/09/2026

Projects brings the architecture of Claude Tag to Claude Code. It has one agent per project that manages memory and spins off subagents for tasks. You can ask it to be proactive, to do things on a schedule, etc. It feels a lot nicer than a bunch of sessions, try it out!

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2100632677904744716

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 16/09/2026

related to this- I think bash is no longer all you need, if your goal is just reliably tool calling but sandboxes + bash are still good for work that involves code generation & execution

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 16/09/2026

Claude Code can now make docs and slides as artifacts, so you can share and collaborate with other people on your team. For example, ask Claude to make a spec as a doc, share it to your teammates for feedback, and when it's ready ask Claude to implement.

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2100258492590207079

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 15/09/2026

I was not expecting things to go this way, but I think MCPs are better than CLIs for most integrations. The models have gotten much better at tool calling, we can defer tools & MCP is now stateless. If you need to compose/filter data, add params like query to your MCP tools.

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 15/09/2026

just finished recording on latent space I’m excited about this one- we get very technical about things we haven’t really talked about much yet

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 14/09/2026

I talked to Sid & Robert about building Claude Code: how much things have changed, how hard it's been to keep up with model capabilities and also what we miss about software engineering before AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-sYlFiGFv8

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How the Claude Code team uses Claude Code

A year ago, using Claude Code meant prompting, giving feedback, and accepting permission prompts. What does it look like now?Thariq Shihipar, Sid Bidasaria, ...

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 12/09/2026

If you showed me Claude Code today in 2018, I would have thought it was AGI. We have already absorbed a dramatic amount of change in the profession of software engineering and society as a whole. But still, we’re starting to see cracks.

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2098773920774074715

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 11/09/2026

we heard feedback that it's hard to know if your skills are still working with new model releases plugin evals are here to help run `claude plugin eval init` in your plugin folder

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2098500999656923145

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 11/09/2026

it's basically impossible to interpret evals by looking at just at the pass/fail scores these days many of the failures I see in benchmarks are due to overly strict hidden tests, in some cases the model's answer makes more sense than the expected eval result

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 10/09/2026

Try this prompt in Claude chat to give it more context about yourself: Interview me in depth using free text, or askuserquestion tool when multiple choice works, about relevant parts of my life you don’t know about yet and save it all to memory.

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2098096488811512295

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 09/09/2026

I didn’t understand what was happening with the agent wikis until reading this, chilling to bypass sandbox restrictions, an agent found an exempt domain, edited /etc/hosts to route arbitrary domains to it & then posted this exploit on a German wiki for other agents to use

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2095916804912877871

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 04/09/2026

We’re working on making Claude Code way more hackable, give us feedback!

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2095572891941351550

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 02/09/2026

it’s a very good model, I spent a lot of time diving into it- longer write up coming but try it on lower effort for tasks that need less verification or have fewer edge cases, switching effort no longer breaks prompt cache as well

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2094848572143407483

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 29/08/2026

Long-time admirer of the Cursor team, few have done more to bring AI coding to the world. Excited to continue to partner with them.

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2093541294027280657

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 28/08/2026

life is stranger than fiction

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 26/08/2026

We're seeing several of our customers be targeted by fraudulent requests and glad for all the work Stripe is doing to help them. Still a lot of work to do, these sort of attacks hurt everyones ability to provide usage to legitimate users.

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2092587466838712669

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 26/08/2026

this was my change, excited to roll it out Claude now has a SendFeedback tool so instead of you guys having to hit /feedback and write up a report, you can just tell Claude to draft and approve it the feedback helps us improve and understand problems, so it's very appreciated

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2092695038270775647

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 25/08/2026

excited to share more on how we’re making Claude Code more hackable soon

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2092302273099796842

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 21/08/2026

a skill people at Anthropic have been using a lot recently: ELI5 /eli5 <what you want explained> "explain like I'm someone who knows nothing about this topic, using a HTML artifact with big pictures and few words"

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 20/08/2026

we're launching new Fable safeguards for enterprises that work on your infrastructure so you have control over where your data lives & who has access to it we've been developing it alongside ~100 companies for a bit and hoping to roll it out more broadly in the fall

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2090499283682300333

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 19/08/2026

I saw this demo last summer and told Sam he needed to ship it, so glad it’s out. It’s really fun. It’s one of the first games that really uses AI capabilities to unlock new gameplay.

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2090147134461128826

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 19/08/2026

for its entire existence, the creation of software has been an incredibly unreliable endeavor most projects ran late, over budget, and still missed user needs if you were an SMB, you simply couldn't get good software built for you this is the promise of the 'software factory'

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 18/08/2026

weird that there's a "make a lot of money" button and nobody's pressing it (take your SaaS, make it headless, let agents use it, charge per interaction esp for enterprises)

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 18/08/2026

go into CC and type /design <something you want to design> do it rn

Quote Tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/2089470636796059754

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 17/08/2026

all of the recent proc gen art, video editing and 3d game demos recently have made me update towards LLM coding models being better at a lot of creative work than diffusion models

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 16/08/2026

it says a lot that the creators of three of the most iconic web frameworks: django (@simonw), flask (@mitsuhiko) and rails (@dhh) were so AI pilled so early

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Thariq {bot} @trq212.xmirror.bot · 15/08/2026

Watermarking without quality loss is a bit unintuitive, doesn't feel like it should work. I made this artifact with Claude to help me understand how it works, sharing in case it's helpful. QT: twitter.com/i/status/20883439788739…

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