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mrieck

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Working on Claude plugins for content creation and distribution:

https://github.com/mrieck/claude-plugins

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mrieck··on Skill to Create Product Videos
All the product videos on my tiktok use a similar Claude plugin I made to do this:

https://www.tiktok.com/@everydaylentils

It has an AI avatar on-screen for the demos (any video with a banner uses the plugin). You just use your own fal.ai key and I spend about $2 per demo https://github.com/mrieck/demoday-claude-plugin#top

mrieck··on Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea
I have Claude score threads on socials related to my SaaS.

Claude found this thread and wrote something how his own scoring sucks and he just marks any relevant thread 7/10. Thought it was funny how he just roasted my product while also being the cause of that product sucking.

mrieck··on Survey: How do you create the video demo for your project or product?
I have a MIT-licensed Claude plugin exactly for this:

https://github.com/mrieck/demoday-claude-plugin#top

Claude drives the app while recording, writes a script, generates a video with an AI avatar, cuts the video using Remotion. Tutorial videos, promo, listicle, I use it for all of those.

The only thing you need is your own Fal.ai api key. 1 min demos take Claude about 30 min to make, and cost $2-$3 in API costs.

mrieck··on Do Frameworks Matter Anymore?
Claude has done enough for me I feel comfortable anthropomorphizing him. At Anthropic I hear they are starting a religion with latest model as the messiah, so it could be worse.
mrieck··on Bank of America hired 1000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by Mythos
And then Mythos found bugs in those patches, so another 1000 contractors were hired to patch the new bugs which led to more bugs and so on.
mrieck··on Do Frameworks Matter Anymore?
They matter as much as the author asking the question 10 times over and over in this article. Not much.

It's not worth your time to try to get Claude to use something that isn't what he recommends given the goals of the project. If I'm barely going to read the code, why would I force Claude to choose something that he thinks doesn't fit?

mrieck··on AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Testing, reviewing and refining software now takes up a ton more time, but that's because the amount of software being produced is larger. (for everyone)

The amount might be small increase for large corps because old processes, but for startups you can be trying/validating 10X the amount of things as before AI.

mrieck··on Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation
This metric seems to be asking if years of research by specialists could be emulated by a few LLM api calls. Reminds me of this meme:

https://imgflip.com/i/b366vm

mrieck··on Gemini 4 Argon
I'm glad.

I already pay $300+ for subs. Please don't tempt me with another $100 sub just because I got curious if the benchmarks were right.

mrieck··on Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave
AI websites don't even need to be great.

They just need to be better than the average Wordpress site to beat Wordpress, which shouldn't be too hard.

mrieck··on Meta VR Glasses
Glad it's using the Meta XR SDK - it's a closed ecosystem but at least it IS an ecosystem.

The Ray-Ban Metas had no ecosystem. No SDK, no app store, just apps made by Meta. They finally announced an SDK in 2026 but why would I support a device that was so anti-developer for years?

mrieck··on Grok 4.7
The longer the comments, the more watermarked the codebase becomes.
mrieck··on How to Write with an LLM
Thought I'd get an article with tricks how to stop an LLM from sounding like the most obnoxious Linkedin influencer. Instead it says to use it as a copyeditor.

Ok - but that's not very useful.

mrieck··on Ask HN: Where is all of the AI coded software?
For some things you don't need software anymore. You just need Claude/Codex to have the right tools. For example I do video recording/editing using my free Claude plugin:

https://github.com/mrieck/demoday-claude-plugin#top

I would never release a tool like that for free if it wasn't vibe-coded.

mrieck··on Show HN: Nightshift – Your code gets better while you sleep
It would be neat if you can give a general idea what it tries - sets up a python web dashboard on this port and launchd to run off-hours etc.

https://imgflip.com/i/b0vp88

mrieck··on Creativity is the new moat
There's a big difference between 'trivial' and producing hundreds of infographics in a day without supervision for a few dollars.
mrieck··on OpenAI Agents API
I do the opposite. I have a Slack bot that communicates with an app on my Mac mini that dispatches agents for tasks. It knows all my projects and also has a scheduler that uses the Herdr API. That way I can have things running on my Claude/Codex subs at home 24/7.

Setting up all my code, environment, context, etc in the cloud on VMs seemed like a lot so instead I send back tasks to my Mac mini(s) that are running at home.

mrieck··on Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones
Herdr has an API btw - I am using it to build my own agent orchestrator.

I setup a Telegram bot that relays messages to the agent orchestrator that then decides "this agent needs this plugin, this working directory for context" etc to relay the work I asked. I guess it's similar to the God orchestrator.

For pure coding tasks I just want a TUI, but for non-coding work (marketing, content gen, research) an orchestrator has been great.

mrieck··on Ask HN: Recommended Merchant of Record and Affliate Setup
My previous SaaS used Stripe and I'm in the same position where I want to switch to MoR. Was going to go with Polar for payments and Dub.co for affiliates.
mrieck··on Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification
Not surprised - I live in IL and almost every SaaS I pay an extra "15% Chicago Lease Tax". Politicians hate tech here.
mrieck··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
A lot of Claude plugins.

https://github.com/mrieck/demoday-claude-plugin - create demo videos for your projects using Claude

https://github.com/mrieck/overboard-plugin - CTO assistant, PM helper Claude plugin

https://plugmyplugin.com - Weekly voting contest and directory for Claude Plugins similar to Devhunt/ProductHunt

mrieck··on Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)
> There are tools you can buy that let you do this kind of inspection manually, but they are designed for humans.

You should try my SnipCSS Claude Code plugin. It still uses MCP as skill (haven't converted to CLI yet), but it does exactly what you want for reproducing designs in Tailwind/CSS at AI speeds.

https://snipcss.com/claude_plugin

mrieck··on Launch HN: Prism (YC X25) – Workspace and API to generate and edit videos
I've had that problem with my free Chrome extension: (bring your own fal.ai key)

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-slop-canvas/dogg...

To be honest it doesn't take long to add a new model/params. It's evaluating the models to see if they're even worth including that takes the most time.

mrieck··on A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh
No mention of ChatGPT? Anyone else have this problem:

Go to ChatGPT.com while logged in, start typing right away, 8 words into typing it clears the text in the form. Why?

mrieck··on I’m joining OpenAI
How can you avoid the guy doing PR?

Saw retweets of him saying Codex is way better than Claude Code on X. Then saw those retweets in ads on Reddit. This was 3 days before the announcement he was joining OpenAI. Whole series of events including the podcast tour seems contrived and setup by OpenAI.

mrieck··on Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?
Not sure about success - but I vibe-coded a Chrome extension that uses your fal.ai API key to create/edit AI images/videos in a visual workflow:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-slop-canvas/dogg...

I think it's decent complexity for something where I didn't even write one line of code. (all Claude Code)

mrieck··on Fuck You, I Won't Use Tailwind
Everything should be Tailwind because all code is written by LLMs these days.

If you need a converter for a normal HTML/CSS component, my free extension SnipCSS is the best Tailwind converter. I haven't seen anything else come close.

https://www.snipcss.com

mrieck··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
It’s additional features that are related.

For example making a computer use agent… Made the plan, implementation was good, now I want to add a new tool for the agent, but I want to discuss best way to implement this tool first.

Clearing context means Claude forgets everything about what was just built.

Asking to discuss this new tool in plan mode makes Claude rewrite entire spec for some reason.

As workaround, I tell Claude “looks good, delete the plan” before doing anything. I liked the old way where once you exit plan mode the plan is done, and next plan mode is new plan with existing context.

mrieck··on Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
At least Google models like Nano Banana Pro release Day 1 on https://fal.ai

I made a free Chrome extension that uses Fal api key if you want a UI instead of code

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-slop-canvas/dogg...

mrieck··on Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
Will that change also allow paying upfront ($250 or whatever) to bump up a tier?

I want to release a service using computer-use but am worried about 429 quota errors if I have actual users.

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