I'm starting a series of articles documenting my journey building custom software for small businesses using Claude Code.
If you are a small business owner, come along!
If you know a small business owner, please consider sharing this series with them.
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I was only 10-15 years ahead of my time
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Puffin v2.1 is available, and it's really taking shape!
Moving on to v3, I am developing a code metamodel to help Claude navigate large projects more effectively (higher precision, fewer tokens)
Here is a high-level view of processes supported
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Sounds like obvious retrospectively but if you plan on building a large project with Claude (+ Puffin) you should as much as possible adopt a plugin architecture. There is no better way to keep Claude focused on the work at hand.
Just for fun!
Claude Code is fantabuloulistic, wonderific and stupendiful all at the same time. The sky is literally the limit. I am ready to cry.
Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras, helped orchestrate a decades-long scheme that prosecutors said brought more than 500 tons of cocaine into the U.S. He was convicted in a sweeping case last year, but President Trump said on Friday that he would pardon Hernandez.
Russia unleashed a nearly 10-hour air assault across Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least two people in the capital and injuring dozens more, according to the Ukrainian authorities. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/w...
And then there is SanDisk, it's taking a life of its own, half-meme, half-ai, and half-vintage (80s). Wait, that's too many halves.
Russia launched a combined missile and drone attack on Ukraine, concentrated heavily on the capital Kyiv, just hours after President Donald Trump struck a positive tone on prospects for a ceasefire deal.
Wow! Crazy variations: Treasuries, Corporate Debt+Equities. If this unwinds it will be ugly.
Foreign flows into US stocks (purple) have been unusually strong since the election a year ago. There's been talk that these inflows are currency hedged, but that's most likely not true. It's these inflows that caused the Dollar to stabilize and are now pushing it higher...
This is not theoretical, this is what I achieved in one hour, Claude Code was able to put the foundation of an "Extreme Custom Software" Platform in place, from which I can build the features I need for my business. www.linkedin.com/posts/jdubra...
Here is a short post I wrote about it: www.linkedin.com/pulse/bespok...
I help my wife run her restaurant. We spend more than 20 cents for every dollar that comes in as subscriptions, fees and commissions. That sales tax collected by the dominant platforms provides the fuel for an unstoppable disruption. Their moat was only the resources it would take to replace them.
Every small/medium business is going to be able to afford systems that greatly improve their productivity instead of spending top $$ in enterprise suites that constrain their operation.
My prediction is that the "packaged" solutions a la SalesForce are bound to be disrupted by an army of average developers using Claude to deliver "extreme custom solutions", no matter how small the organization is.
.. where productivity could increase rapidly. For instance, software engineering is ready for a massive transformation where domain experts with minimal software engineering knowledge are going to deliver solutions that greatly enhance productivity.
I am a retired software engineer, and up until recently, I found GenAI to be underwhelming often asking where the profits will come from to pay for all this. I am still asking this question, however, I believe things are evolving rapidly and I can now see that there start to be several professions..
The model assumes $1 T of Application and Services revenue (consuming foundation models running in datacenters) and reverse engineers how many GW, investments, OpEx... you need to support that kind of revenue.
Bob, I created a small "GenAI Business Model Simulator" with the help of ... GenAI. I'd be honored if you took a look. I can't find a simulation where the industry makes money and/or the lenders/investors are not wiped out. claude.ai/public/artif...
The whole podcast is interesting, but the last 15 minutes have a very no nonsense discussion on the GenAI business model and it's impact on jobs. (starts 34 min 30 s).
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We are currently in a runaway system where Nvidia uses its massive profits to fund the purchase of more GPUs indiscriminately, which then require more power and more water, and then pushes competitors to raise more capital to buy more GPUs. That is madness.
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MORE | Water and electricity shortages in Iran reflect the regime's inability to meet the basic needs of its citizens, which could generate potential internal instability. Read more ➡️ www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/ira...
Or USD is ready to break down, so far it touched twice its 2008 uptrend line.
President of Finland Alexander Stubb:
"When we look at war, there are elements of it that are brutal, vulgar, and unethical. But the kidnapping of children, I think, goes beyond all of that. And we have to think that it's not only about the children being abducted⤵️
The largest electrical power plant in the world is the Three Gorges Dam in China with a capacity of 22.5 GW. It's over 2 km long and its reservoir stretches about 660 km upstream.
Bruce Nuclear Generating Station (Canada) is 6.5 GW (8 reactors) and requires 4000 workers.
This is a complete joke.
