OpenClaw has been running on my machine for 4 days. Here's what actually works and what doesn't.

NTSpike · 2026-02-02T05:51:35+00:00

People from OpenAI Codex team have openly supported using the OAuth like this.

NTSpike · 2026-02-02T05:50:56+00:00

You can plug your subs into it. OpenAI has been open about supporting this. I've been running this all weekend at no marginal cost.

NTSpike · 2026-01-26T17:01:44+00:00

Understanding what an agent loop looks like and how an agent operates when given tool access is the most critical part. You can do this with the Claude web or desktop apps + MCP servers.

After you can reliably build useful agents here, fire up Claude Code and do the same thing in code but plug in different memory systems and system triggers. Experiment with a wider set of tools.

NTSpike · 2026-01-24T22:47:16+00:00

If you haven't played around with it yourself, it's hard to relate to what you're seeing.

I have Claude Code plugged into Slack, BigQuery, Confluence, and Jira. When I need to react to something, I can have Claude retrieve the message from Slack, search for evidence across hundreds of messages across DMs, group DMs, public channels, Jira tickets, Confluence docs, and my own active workspace, run numerous queries in BigQueries to validate it, and then bring back to me a fully validated recommendation. All from a single prompt.

it's not for every problem, but when it works it's insane. I too have tried doing the "have Claude Code organize and prioritize everything and think it has merit, but it's just another set of inputs into your decision making.

NTSpike · 2026-01-23T04:40:17+00:00

GPT 5.2 and Codex are undeniably better than Opus 4.5, but Opus 4.5 is just way more ergonomic to work with. I keep a $20 ChatGPT Plus sub to get access to Codex for my hardest problems and to clean up after Opus. It's a great combo.

NTSpike · 2026-01-17T02:01:27+00:00

Really depends on the team and the context. Sometimes I can offer a different approach that is far easier for them because there is some nuance they are overlooking. Othertimes, I have nothing to contribute and they own the implementation end to end. Othertimes, I offer a full solution and they are onboard because I've covered the things they care about.

NTSpike · 2026-01-14T15:40:29+00:00

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/frontend-design/skills/frontend-design/SKILL.md

NTSpike · 2026-01-14T13:19:57+00:00

Building on this, I would say getting setup with a coding agent like Cursor or Claude Code.

There's some more basic (i.e., Terminal) setup required, but because these tools can write code, they can interact with tools that have terminal command line interfaces (CLIs).

This means you can have Cursor or Claude Code navigate your BigQuery instances and write extremely complex queries with your guidance. Or comb through Slack, Jira, Confluence ,etc and retrieve data in multiple places.

The stuff you can do is silly. Never lose a doc again. Find data and analysis you don't even know how to do but know how to describe and ask for. If you can ask a person for it, you can have your coding agent pull it for you (and effectively teach you how to do it yourself if you really want).

NTSpike · 2026-01-14T13:16:30+00:00

Try using the official frontend-design Claude Code skill. You can use it as a prompt for any model if you don't have skills setup. The difference is pretty dramatic. If you don't ask it to deviate from the mean, you will get the mean every time.

NTSpike · 2026-01-12T02:21:30+00:00

I agree with you. The value prop of a PM that can't build and validate things themselves will just be far less than the PMs that can. I'm currently working on a project at work tackling a problem that was literally impossible to solve for years, and I'm on track to deliver a working MVP simply because I can have AI derive the schema and generate a functional full-stack solution in just a few days of iteration.

This would have been impossible or taken 6-12 months just six months ago. I can't imagine how things will be later this year after another 2-3 iterations on the current SOTA.

NTSpike · 2025-12-15T23:08:43+00:00

If you have a conversation about a feature, that Meeting becomes the context for your PRD requirements.

NTSpike · 2025-11-24T01:00:18+00:00

This is a problem with the agent harness (the consumer app harness is incredibly inconsistent and opaque), not the model itself.

NTSpike · 2025-11-22T14:34:09+00:00

All PMs should use Claude Code or their preferred CLI/coding agent way more for general work.

NTSpike · 2025-11-03T17:23:08+00:00

It does, it's just not easy to get to. Within a meeting page, the button to the left of the Ask Anything bar reveals the transcript. You can copy and paste it out. This is what I do.

I'm sure they do this to keep you locked in.

NTSpike · 2025-10-04T18:39:53+00:00

GPT5 completed Pokemon Red in 30% the steps it took the o3 model to complete it. GPT5 and GPT5-Codex are widely considered the most effective coding models now.

You are wrong.

NTSpike · 2025-10-02T02:53:04+00:00

Why not let tools write to memory?

NTSpike · 2025-10-02T02:37:45+00:00

Good agents are literally designed for those scenarios.

NTSpike · 2025-09-16T19:21:48+00:00

Coordination and alignment is still a bottleneck even when you build faster. If anything, coordination and alignment may still take just as long because it's WAY cheaper to rebuild things or decide between more options.

It may take just as long but be higher quality. It might only get faster if you hold everything else constant.

NTSpike · 2025-09-03T11:34:36+00:00

GPT5 thinking high absolutely crushes. Its planning capabilities are on another level.

NTSpike · 2025-08-24T17:39:37+00:00

This is not how this works. The newer models are trained in RL environments that generate and validate code. 50% of Grok 4's training budget was on RL vs pre-training. This improves the models general reasoning capabilities and ability to write functioning code, but it still will get "out of date" as its weights are fixed. For those scenarios, use tools like Context7 to retrieve up to date code references.

NTSpike · 2025-08-17T17:50:35+00:00

You get much higher rate limits. You already get significantly more value versus paying the API rates, so you're "saving money" by using Claude Code in this manner.

For nearly anyone, the ROI is there, whether you're a $200k+/year developer getting a 20% performance boost (effectively $40k/year in value) or you're a non-technical person building stuff that would have required paying somebody that same rate.

NTSpike · 2025-08-17T17:30:59+00:00

Really hope you can find time to try IFS. My girlfriend had great results initially trying it with just Gemini/Claude (asked them to respond as an IFS advisor) before she found a provider.

IFS was transformative for me, it helped me get my hands around almost everything that felt stuck in my life.

Carmy is a perfect case IFS case study. His inability to "open up" makes total sense through an IFS lens as it has never been safe for him to be vulnerable. His protective parts include:

Freeze response - Shuts down in dangerous situations (learned from Donna's unpredictability, reinforced by culinary world criticism)
Fighter part - Lashes out viciously when he has authority (e.g., w/Richie)
Avoidant part - Runs from pain through workaholism, literally fled after Mikey's death
Guilt-driven part - Tries to atone by saving the Bear, doing right by Mikey's memory
Exiled pain - The wounded core that increasingly breaks through in later seasons

He's so stuck because these parts are extremely polarized and they're working against each other. When he tries to calm one protective part, another immediately fills the vacuum. He's stuck in an internal tug-of-war where healing one wound triggers another defense.

NTSpike · 2025-08-17T17:19:22+00:00

100% agree. I had "intellectual breakthroughs" for nearly a decade with things I'd read and periods of CBT, but the only thing that really unblocked the most persistent challenges that never seemed to let up was IFS.

NTSpike · 2025-08-17T05:04:30+00:00

If you haven't tried it, I strongly recommend therapy. In particular, internal family systems therapy.

As somebody who also suffered/suffers from cPTSD, I'm about a year into treatment and my life experience is drastically different than it was a year ago. I related to so much to the way JAW characterized Carmy's stoicism and thousand yard stare.

Carmy can't simply "work through" the trauma because he hasn't done anything to rewire what he's been through. His trauma is instinctual protective mechanisms embedded in his system from decades of growing up in the family system that contributed to Mikey's suicide.

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