aabajian (u/aabajian)

aabajian commented on Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter fluorite.game/... · Posted by u/bsimpson

noodletheworld · a day ago

> push notifications to my frontend iOS

> It all kinda just works.

> Can usability test in-tandem.

Man, people say this kind of thing, and I go… really? …because I use Claude code, and an iOS MCP server (1) and hot damn I would not describe the experience as “just works”.

What MCP and model are you using to automate the testing on your device and do automated QA with to, eg. verify your native device notifications are working?

My experience is that Claude is great at writing code, but really terrible at verifying that it works.

What are you using? Not prompts; like, servers or tools or whatever, since obviously Claude doesn’t support this at all out of the box.

(1) - specifically, this one https://github.com/joshuayoes/ios-simulator-mcp

aabajian · 8 hours ago

Claude set up my whole backend on AWS. That includes a load balancer, web server, email server, three application servers, and a bastion server to connect to their VPN.

It configured everything by writing an AWS Terraform file. Stored all secrets in AWS as well.

Everything I do is on the command line with Claude running in Visual Studio Code. I have a lot of MacOS X / Ubuntu Linux command line experience. Watching Claude work is like watching myself working. It blew my mind the first time it connected through the bastion to individual AWS instances to run scripts and check their logs.

So yeah, the same Claude Code instance that configured the backend is running inside a terminal in VS Code where I’m developing the frontend. Backend is Django/Python. Frontend is Flutter/Dart. Claude set up the WebSocket in Django/Gunicorn and the WebSocket in Flutter.

It also walked me through the generation of keys to configure push notifications on iOS. You have to know something about public/private key security, but that amounts to just generating the files in the right formats (PEM vs P12).

aabajian commented on Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter fluorite.game/... · Posted by u/bsimpson

aabajian · 2 days ago

The combination of Flutter + Claude Code makes cross-platform app development really, really fast. I've been impressed with how well Clause handles prompts like, "This list should expand on the web, but not on iOS." I then ask it (Claude) to run both a web instance and an iOS simulator instance. Can usability test in-tandem.

I recently (as in, last night) added WebSockets to my backend, push notifications to my frontend iOS, and notification banner to the webapp. It all kinda just works. Biggest issues have been version-matching across with Django/Gunicorn/Amazon Linux images.

aabajian commented on I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed jamesdrandall.com/posts/t... · Posted by u/jamesrandall

aabajian · 3 days ago

It seems AI is putting senior developers into two camps. Both groups relate to the statement, "I started programming when I was seven because a machine did exactly what I told it to, felt like something I could explore and ultimately know, and that felt like magic. I’m fifty now, and the magic is different, and I’m learning to sit with that."

The difference is that the first camp is re-experiencing that feeling of wonder while the second camp is lamenting it. I thankfully fall in the first camp. AI is allowing me to build things I couldn't, not due to a lack of skills, but a lack of time. Do you want to spend all your time building the app user interface, or do you want to focus on that core ability that makes your program unique? Most of us want the latter, but the former takes up so much time.

aabajian commented on Claude Code for Infrastructure fluid.sh/... · Posted by u/aspectrr

falloutx · 9 days ago

All these tools to build something, but nothing to build. I feel like I am part of a Pyramid Scheme where every product is about building something else, but nothing reaches the end user.

Note: nothing against fluid.sh, I am struggling to figure out something to build.

aabajian · 9 days ago

That is the problem with software developers with expertise in software, but no deep domain knowledge outside the CS world.

aabajian commented on Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product simonberens.com/p/lessons... · Posted by u/sberens

aabajian · 9 days ago

I don't know enough about lighting, but if I bought five of these, would I reach 50,000 lumens? Is it just additive? This would cost $250.

https://www.harborfreight.com/10000-lumen-4-ft-linkable-diam...

Also, if you've ever been in a Walmart or Forever 21 at night, you'll know that constant LED white light is probably not the best thing for your eyes.

aabajian commented on Why software stocks are getting pummelled economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/petethomas

aabajian · 11 days ago

There are many stories on r/ClaudeCode of developers realizing the power of that particular model.

Think of all the solo developer webapp/mobile "hot" startups (FB, Craigslist, Instagram, SnapChat, Pinterest, etc.).

It is no joke that a seasoned developer can build similar apps with Claude in...days. Not just the app, but the entire infrastructure (e.g. scalable on AWS using Terraform). This includes setting up domain registration, Elastic IPs, provisions the instances, setting up keys/ELBs/email server/Twilio/etc.

What is astonishing is how well Claude can plan. You write a spec, and it will give you an entire plan including ASCII UML diagrams, infrastructure changes, database updates, the code itself, user stories, and test cases. It will then do all the work, including "tricky" things like SSHing over a bastion to run the scripts that it wrote on an instance behind a VPC.

The main obstacle now is the context window. If it were to increase 100x or so, Claude could probably manage an entire software company's codebase at scale.

I'm sorry to say, but there's no way you could use Claude for a month or so without feeling, "We are going to need way fewer software engineers."

aabajian commented on Google co-founder reveals that "many" of the new hires do not have a degree yahoo.com/news/articles/g... · Posted by u/01-_-

aabajian · 24 days ago

When your most potent competitor companies (FB, MSFT, Apple) and investments (OpenAI) were all founded by college drop-outs, it does make you wonder whether college itself was holding these individuals back. I'm sure they are exceptions rather than the rule.

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aabajian · a month ago

AI is making us face the reality of non-physical goods and services. If a product exists solely as data (writing, music, code, drawings, movies, etc.) then the value is in the idea and its distribution, and less on its production.

I'll give some examples:

Novel algorithms: PageRank, BitTorrent, Like buttons, disappearing pictures, etc.

Artistic styles: Cubism, impressionism, Wes Anderson, etc.

The above algorithms are (relatively) straightforward to implement and could be implemented by Claude Code in a matter of hours if not minutes. But, you'd still need a means to distribute them.

Similarly, you can have AI generate an image in any of the above styles (or a combination thereof), but the image won't have intrinsic value unless you can finds a means of (profitable) distribution.

Put another way, there's limited value in being able to master physical tasks (playing piano, typing fast), but fundamental skills that lead to creative innovation will remain important...along with being able to package/market/distribute the AI-implementation of your ideas.

aabajian commented on ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product? consciousdigital.org/chat... · Posted by u/yoaviram

redmattred · a month ago

The HHS is asking for recommendations on how to leverage AI for healthcare: https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-ai-rfi.html

This is probably part of an effort to position them a potential vendor to help the government with this.

aabajian · a month ago

As an interventional radiologist, I want it to be easier to see images from outside hospitals. Epic has nearly solved the problem of seeing outside medical records. Yet, I still can't see the images for the CT scan you had from the hospital across the street unless I call the file room and get the images transferred.

I imagine once data sharing is more robust, it would be easier to validate AI models (at least specifically for radiology).

aabajian commented on Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas arstechnica.com/ai/2025/1... · Posted by u/OptionOfT

gibsonsmog · 2 months ago

>improve things they are already doing repeatedly. For example, I click the same button in Epic every day because Epic can't remove a tab. Maybe Copilot could learn that I do this and just...do it for me?

You could solve that issue (and probably lot's of similar issues) with something like Auto Hotkey. Seems like extreme overkill to have an autonomous agent watch everything you do, so it might possibly click a button.

aabajian · 2 months ago

Auto Hotkey doesn't work well for Epic manipulation because Epic runs inside of a Citrix Virtual Machine. You can't just read Window information and navigate that way. You'd have to have some sort of on-screen OCR to detect whether Epic is open, has focus, and is showing the tab that I want to close. Also, the tab itself can't be closed...I'm just clicking on the tab next to it.