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mheilemann··on AI and the Speed of Idea Execution
AI AND THE SPEED OF IDEA EXECUTION now up on www.norsewanderer.com

The biggest change AI has made for me isn't that it can write code faster, though that is a part of it. It's that the cost between having an idea and trying it has become dramatically less.

That changes what projects are worth pursuing, makes it cheaper to be wrong, and moves the bottleneck from implementation to judgment. My latest post looks at how I experienced this while building different projects.

I originally intended my previous post to be my last on AI, but the response was so strong that I decided to do two more. Next week will be the last one.

Read it here in the blog section: www.norsewanderer.com

Prepare ye to plunder!

Michael Heilemann - The Norseman / The Viking

mheilemann··on Claude Usage Monitor for Windows
I got sick of clicking Settings -> Usage all the time when using Claude Code, so I made a tiny Windows app that puts all the usage information I wanted in one place, along with the current session and context information.

I just released it as open source on GitHub under the MIT License, so if you use Claude Code and you're interested, check it out.

It's only the Windows .exe, no installer, frameworks, or other stuff to install.

https://github.com/mheilemann/ClaudeUsageMonitor/