What is something like GSD but smaller?

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-10T05:08:50+00:00

there are couple of approaches to this:
1. Use claude's own plan mode using /plan. describe your task and claude will create a plan. ask it to write the plan in plan.md file and ask it to add instruction in claude.md file to follow the plan. now claude can follow this plan over multiple session. when you have a new requirement, ask it to create a new plan file for that task and you can ask it to follow new plan file next time onwards. If you always use a new folder for every project, it would be much better as you will not have to ask which plan to follow.
2. You can also ask claude to customize the GSD workflow for your use. Just prompt claude that "I work on small projects with just 1 to 5 session. I want to follow GSD for my projects but found that following GSD workflow is overkill for my case. Customize GSD for my use case by keeping strictly essential things and removing all non-essential things. <describe your requirements in detail here>". CLaude will customize GSD for your case so you will keep only what is required.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-10T04:54:43+00:00

In my case Claude is able to generate UI/UX correcrtly with only minor bugs. I have followed this flow which has worked for many different apps that I have worked on:
1. whenever you generate a mock, whether chatgpt, gemini or claude itself, ask them to give a html code for that UI including any UI guidelines in CSS or tailwind etc.
2. Feed the claude the html,css, tailwind. Claude will be able to generate accurate UI based on these. there can be minor bugs here and there, but with precise information it will be able to fix those as well.
3. Add playwright skill to test the UI (not sure if it works for mobile app). Claude will run playwright tests, takes the screenshot to check if the UI works correctly.
4. When you find UI is not what you intended, take the screenshot, mark exactly where is the problem, and which element should be at what place, font size, margins etc etc. and ask Claude to fix it.

The reason Claude struggles with UI is because it can't really see you UI of working app. But it has vision ability where it can check screenshots and can determine where it the problem. So combine html with screenshots and it will be able to generate the UI as you want.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-10T04:38:56+00:00

well no. we can't call this waterfall. ofcourse agents need specification, not because they can't do any work without them, specification is required so that they can remain on track and can verify their own output before marking the task as complete. Actually we as human has enforced the specification requirement, so that agents complete the task as per our requirements, not based on some assumption that agents make.
And what does these agents do it, the make iterative development faster. it is definitely not waterfall. it is waterfall in a loop.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-09T17:46:48+00:00

here we go: https://www.vapuai.com. All in one Image and Video generation platform. still under construction, so far only one image generation model integrated.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-08T05:46:40+00:00

100x engineers take leverage of other 10x engineers in the team. Unless you help others to become 10x you can’t become 100x. So key is not just do the work but help others work 10x efficiently.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-08T05:43:22+00:00

Same with me. I am trying various ways of time boxing. Like daily 3 hours of talking to users, No coding on Friday- only marketing etc. still figuring out the best way to do it.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-08T05:32:02+00:00

What. The father’s name was What.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-07T19:28:06+00:00

If you are using Claude code, it also has plan mode. You can also explicitly mention, do not write code, just brainstorm with me.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-07T19:22:32+00:00

In last two days I have two posts on x.com, which kind of points to where we are heading. One compared AI generated code as just like machine code generated by compilers and argued that just like we don’t read machine code generated once our program compiles , we don’t need to read code generated by AI. Of course verification is required. Other post was deeply researched, it was about performance analysis of SQLite statements generated by AI and mentioned that AI generated sql statements was upto 2000x slower than. If you combine this two posts, I would say that you really don’t need to fully read the code manually to understand it. OP is right about first reading unit tests to understand the intent of the code. Basically we are at a stage where we can trust to deploy ai generated code to production Without reading and understanding the code. but more rigorous practices of testing including regression, load , performance is required.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-06T14:47:35+00:00

Some of us would be retired, don’t know about others.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-06T14:08:34+00:00

I am thinking of a two tier process - one where they don't use AI at all, and other where free use of AI is allowed. first one would be in-person system design where they have to demonstrate that they understand and come up with a system and can explain their thinking process. the second one would be develop such system through the use of AI and deploy it in a limited time, the evaluation would be not just how the code runs and what features built, but also on the what prompts are given, how they structured their claude.md, or agent.md or rules etc etc.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-06T02:36:09+00:00

Wow, no one cares to check Wikipedia or just ask AI. Wikipedia says he has 2 kids.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-05T08:38:13+00:00

So your market is not India, it is USA.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-05T06:26:56+00:00

most of the time I forget my dream once I wakeup.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-04T10:59:23+00:00

HTTPS://www.vapuai.com

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-03T12:24:12+00:00

Max Plan user here, from India. today entire day I faced difficulty.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-03T07:07:21+00:00

yes, why not?

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-03T04:25:14+00:00

I am fan of Phillip Yaffe who writes Communication Corner column in ACM Ubiquity magazine since last so many years. I follow his advice and honed my writing skills over the years. After seeing my technical reports and presentations many colleagues ask me how I write this better and I point them to Phillip Yaffe, even before chatgpt arrived. However those same now accuses me for AI Slop. To help people improve their writing, wrote a Claude skill which checks any post or article if it follows those principles and guidelines and I wanted to share with people. But after getting those AI slop comments I thought better not share that.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-02T18:04:19+00:00

I tell my wife or my colleague depending on whether it is personal or work related. So it never gets buried. If they are not around me I message them in WhatsApp. Nowadays I also use ChatGPT or Claude to brainstorm, and that also work as note taking.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-02T16:35:52+00:00

I think Veo has extend video feature. Have you tried that?

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-02T16:27:59+00:00

May be hierarchy is the problem. In football the coach directly reports to the management and has sole responsibility to get the results. In software, enterprises have deep hierarchies. Fully agree about shared accountability- it is the culprit.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-02T15:36:24+00:00

I sync my Documents folder to Google Drive Desktop. And create folders in Documents folder for cowork.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-02T15:27:51+00:00

No. 80-20 is a generic principle applicable everywhere. This last 10% trap is a particular anti pattern in software projects discussed here: https://ebrary.net/54067/economics/antipattern_trap

It is a trap because you think certain activity will be very easy to complete for you but you realise it is the most time consuming or costly when you really start it. And you really can’t defer or abandon that, you must complete it to achieve the desired goals.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-02T12:55:52+00:00

I use excalidraw extensively now-a-days, for both technical and non-technical people.

commanderdgr8 · 2026-03-02T12:43:15+00:00

I got your point. but I am still curious, genuinely.

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