A Swarm of Blood Robots — by Craig Mod

kept by hugows sep 13

The author describes using Claude LLMs to automate genealogy research, build a personal book‑sharing site, transcribe handwriting, and handle various tedious tasks.

Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
Claude Code was used to map thematic connections between 100 books, but commenters question whether the links are meaningful or just stylistic LLM patterns.
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A Hundred Coffee Machines and the Joy of Small Open Source
A developer reverse-engineered his Sage coffee machine's cloud API, built a Home Assistant integration, and found joy in a hundred strangers quietly using it to automate their morning routine.
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debloat.dev — replace the junk
debloat.dev lists open-source alternatives to replace bloated vendor software, featuring projects like VSCodium, Immich, and Home Assistant with licensing and user ratings.
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The cost of caring about software - Alex Rios Substack
AI reduces code-writing effort but shifts verification cost onto reviewers, creating an externality where comprehension debt rises despite faster generation.
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Pi, Minimal and Performant
Pi's minimal coding harness improves cost and performance by using fewer tools and less context, validated by Databricks' benchmark and Shopify's extensible pi-autoresearch extension.
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