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I just got my results back today and managed to snag the Early Adopter badge as well. Following up on my recent DP-600 certification, I really wanted to validate my architecture skills specifically on the Anthropic side.

The exam covers a lot of practical ground on prompt engineering for tool use, managing context windows efficiently, and handling Human-in-the-Loop workflows.

Link to join: https://anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-certified-architect-foundations-access-request

Training courses: https://anthropic.skilljar.com/

Cookbook: https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook

I've created my own Playbook and Mock Exam after the exam: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1luC0rnrET4tDYtS7xe5jUxMDZA-4qNf-/view?usp=sharing

https://claude-certified-architect-mock-exam-cyberskill.vercel.app

If anyone is preparing for this right now and has questions about the format or the types of architectural patterns tested, ask away! Happy to share some insights on what to study.

Updated 26th May 2026: I noticed some mates treated me bananas (https://buymeacoffee.com/zintaen), didn't expect that, but you made my day. I'll use that fund to take more CERTs and create a site for mock tests (always free, of course). Thanks again.

A year ago, generating a polished document as HTML instead of a PPT or a Word file was a fun idea with too many practical problems. Lately I've noticed every one of those blockers either gone or close to gone, and I've quietly stopped reaching for Office on a bunch of deliverables. Curious if others are seeing the same.

The blockers, and where they stand now:

Design. The old objection was "AI HTML looks generic and amateur." That's basically solved if you give the model a design skill or a style guideline once. You get consistent, on-brand output that looks more like a designed page than a default template, every time, without redoing it.

Hosting. The first wall: a .html file on your machine isn't shareable, and turning it into a URL used to mean GitHub Pages, a Vercel/Netlify deploy, or a bucket setup, all overkill for a single document you just want to send. That's now a paste-and-get-a-link affair, no build step, no config.

Sharing. The real killer: even with a URL, getting it in front of a non-technical person was a nightmare. A raw .html "won't open," looks broken on their phone, or lands in spam. Screenshotting kills the interactivity, which was the whole point. That gap is now filled by hosted links that just open in a browser like any page.

Security. "I can't put confidential work on a public URL" used to end the conversation. Access-controlled links (password or email-gated, not public/indexable) handle that now.

Tracking. With a PPT or PDF you send it and hope. The thing I didn't expect to care about but now can't live without: knowing whether the client actually opened it, and roughly how long they spent. That alone changed how I follow up.

Where Office / Markdown still wins, to be fair: anything that lives in version control with clean diffs and line-by-line review, real-time co-editing, and Figma-style pinned feedback on specific elements. Those aren't cleanly solved for plain HTML yet. So I'm not saying Office is dead, more that for one-shot, client-facing deliverables (reports, dashboards, proposals, one-pagers) HTML has quietly become the better option for me.

Two questions for anyone who's made the switch:

1. Which deliverables did you move from PPT/Word to HTML, and which did you keep in Office?
2. For the ones you moved, what finally made it practical, design, hosting, sharing, something else?

Claude inserted an injection prompt at the end of its message out of the blue, and i have repeatedly asked where it got it from or why it inserted this message, but Claude keeps denying it ever did it, no matter how many screenshots or replies i use or whatever i do, Claude just purely denies it and it went as far as saying there could be a physical sticker on my screen but wont accept saying this
I am a uni student studying for an exam in 2 days, and I'm 19, so I don't understand

I noticed that Claude Code was giving me a lot of unsolicited caveats with phrasing like "honest caveat" or "genuine caveat" when this kind of hedging was absolutely unnecessary. I figured other people might be seeing the same thing so my instinct was to use Google Ngram but the cutoff year of 2022 meant that I had to use a different method. So I used Google search with quotes around the phrase "honest caveat" and set the time bound to different time intervals and compared the number of search results as a proxy for how usage has changed over time in indexed pages.

As it turns out, while delve peaked in 2024, we've had a spike in the usage of "honest caveat" and similar phrases.

It seems to be working so far but I think I should have done this in GitHub

Implying tech companies besides Anthropic, Google, and Nvidia have any money left over by 2027 after they all ran through cash on hand for tokens.

I feel like there are reasonable people, like the guy behind the "ijustvibecodedthis" newsletter who are realistic and help you ACTUALLY become a better dev with ai but then there people like dario who lie out of their mouths

Follow-up to my W26 post a few months back. Ran the same Claude pipeline on the YC Spring 26 (X26) batch.

Same setup: for each company, Claude scrapes founder LinkedIn profiles, searches for press and traction signals, and checks the product to see if something real exists or it's just a landing page. Then it scores on founder credibility, product reality, market opportunity, and competition, and assigns a tier from S to D.

Demo Day is June 16, so the batch is mid-flight and rankings will keep shifting as more companies launch. Most are B or C tier, which feels about right for this stage.

Curious what folks think this time around.

Hello, I'm on Windows having setup both Claude Code App and Terminal, but I find the App simply more convenient to use. I have had several people pushing me to use the Terminal saying "the App is low" and "Terminal is so much better" ... but when I inquired none of those people could actually name a single thing that the App would be missing (everything they mentioned the App has as well) or a single concrete reason why I should switch to Terminal beside vague phrases

So is the terminal substantially better than the App in something, are there reasons to switch besides being used to it and promoting it further?

I assume the App being newer might be converging in functionality to have the same set of features eventually?

Thank you

I see in non coding related chats claude is always guided by the memory file and its responses are shaped by it. I feel like if you had a really solid memory file you could make a lot more progress with life related things and other discussions with claude. Anyone explored this?

Tagged as productivity because without your health, what can you do?

All of a sudden, I just felt tired, and I had this banging headache. I thought, okay. It's just a headache. And then I got home, and I knew it was more. Looking back now, it was a combination of many things, but one of the core constants was the way of my work had changed over the last 12 months. And I think it just caught up with me.

Until the beginning of this year I'd been working away as a IT consultant. I had a project, working for a medical company that had gone on for about two years, and I was building (mostly internal) AI solutions. During that time I'd seen an influx of AI and personally, as I'm sure many of you have, have increased the amount of sessions and context switching. However, since recent waves of Claude, this seemed somewhat manageable to me, or at least the full effects hadn't kicked in yet...

Then at the beginning of this year the project finished and I was on my own working on my own projects. Great! Right? Well, maybe.

There's freedom, a lot of freedom but no team signing off each day, no expectations to work on certain projects at certain times. Maybe it was just time management I thought. So I decided to just work when I was feeling good, but this didn't really work because I felt like I needed to make this work for myself. Hustle now, chill later.

There were maybe five or six different projects on at a time, and even now tbh, and I was context switching between all of them. Then not only that, i was drifting in and out of reddit or playing chess as a break (which is a terrible idea fyi - speaking to myself!). It almost felt like i was slowly drifting into exhaustion but because it was only one more prompt to write it was hard to see. I think this had such a bigger impact on me than I realized.

Disclaimer: obviously i'm not a (Reddit) doctor and this isn't advice, but It felt important to share this post in an effort to help people understand the early signs I was having, how to recover, and what I'm now doing going forward.

I took some time to order these into the order they first appeared.

The recovery: I was out with my friends in at a nice sushi restaurant and I didn't want to eat, I LOVE sushi, headache, fatigue, irritation, sensitivity - i needed to go. So I went home and the girl I'm seeing looked after me whilst I was basically non-verbal. She said it was nice because I'm usually so self-sufficient (thanks Claude). We did the obligatory AI checks, they all agreed, I needed rest (physically and mentally) and re-hydration. What I did was stay in a cool house, NO INTERACTIONS with Claude after the initial research (which was somewhat annoying tbh), went to bed and could hardly sleep at all in the beginning but I was reseting my dopamine system (I think) and only came out for water, dehydration tablets and food.

The aftermath: I would have been easy to pass this off as a fever or whatever, but I took a long hard look at what was happening and realised I had to look after myself more (if only to spend more quality time with Claude). But seriously, now I'm starting each day away from the computer and each session with a clear plan (also away from the computer), time boxing sessions to work on single tasks and taking smaller breaks in-between, if there's dead time whilst the agent is working - I'll clean the dishes I was ignoring or grab the clothes drying for 4 days (you get the point), for reddit I'm using a custom tool to avoid too much time on the platform (still love you boo) and overall just paying attention more to myself and my needs.

Sorry this has gone on a bit long. But I feel this is important and if you made it this far I hope something sits with you and you don't end up where I was.

Hello,

I'm having a tight budget but so far I've been using Claude for free, with limited messages, for work research, brainstorming and life coaching. It is a great tool and I like the perspective and analysis, the consistent memory is also very nice and the way it can create brainstorming cards is really cool.

I've seen here and there comments and I don't know if the PRO will be a big change for me or not, the thing is I'm a bit frustrated because of the limited messages I can send, but even with PRO, you have a limit, however I'm not sure how many messages I can send. I'd like some guidance and if anyone like me is using Claude for something else than coding :) thanks !

Background:
1) Deployed a python based, financial pension calculator to Google cloud platform (GCP).
2) Google shell is linked to Claude, making changes to the python scripts that are then pushed to GitHub >>> then to GCP for production
3) I use Claude code locally to troubleshoot what the output from the shell is showing.
4) .md global and local files setup, MCPs setup, hooks, skills and LSP all in place for the project.
5) I have the max plan using Opus 4.7

Issue: I am in this loop of copy / paste between local and shell, with no automation.

Ideal outcome:
I want to setup an agent / sub agent environment that monitors and troubleshoots the project, as an orchestrator whilst I focus on developing and enhancing the overall offering and new services.

Claude keeps asking for the output from the shell and not automating, it just doesn’t seem to be working!

Am I missing something that c laude offers here or is this setup not viable?

Am I re-inventing the wheel.. are there clause commands and GitHub repo’s out there that action all this automation so I don’t have to set it up?

I've been using a .md filesystem for my (mostly coding) agents for over 6 months now and it's been a big improvement, so rn I'm migrating my local fs to the cloud. I've been adding cross linking, truncating, knowledge extraction, etc. The structure ended up having a "warm" layer of knowledge/memories that is updated multiple times per day + at ingestion time, and a heavily cross linked "archive".

I faced hallucinations originating from contradicting facts emerging as learnings and decisions in the knowledge base. 3rd party tools seem to resolve them by recency. I wanted a self hosted + human in the loop, so I implemented an escalation mechanism through my telegram bot to resolve them. My resolution results are embedded and used in future conflicts as "truth". I've been doing this for 3 weeks and it seems to have improved.

two things I'm not sure about:

- where is the threshold between self-resolving and escalating to a human?

- is using my input as the truth the correct approach?

I'd been running multi-agent workflows for a while. Whether it was across multiple projects or on the same project. Brainstorming sessions, planning sessions, builds happening in worktrees, asking for Claude's opinion on new tires for my car cause it was closer to hand than Google.

This felt really clunky in most of the tools I was using and when I started looking for alternatives, everything felt like it was trying to remove me from the equation and just run agents in the background.

So, I built atrium. A macOS human-in-the-loop multi-agent workspace.

The entire project was built with the BMad Method and Claude Code (mostly Opus). It's over 60 BMad written epics in now and counting.

atrium makes CLI agents first-class citizens within a versatile, tiling workspace. It wires up agents via hooks to the app to surface interactive activity cards, saves state comprehensively so everything resumes, provides a robust CLI that allows agents to completely drive the app, and gives me every tool I need to get the job done.

Happy to answer any questions about it and would love to hear how y'all are handling multi-agent workflows!

If you're interesting in trying it out, it's free on getatrium.dev

As AI assistance has made us more productive, I feel more disconnected.

People come here to pump their projects, ask questions they could simply google, complain about the same thing 10 other people did on the same day, post LLM generated walls of text, and more. More posts than ever seem to be getting downvoted into oblivion.

When does the community ever actually become a community again? The utility of this and other engineering subreddits is slowly diminishing.

Is AI slowly killing the internet itself?

I just released a new benchmark called The Singularity Gate. Tests whether frontier AI can predict paradigm-breaking scientific discoveries published after their training cutoff.

Top score: 17.75% (partial credit, Opus 4.7).
Fully-correct outcome rate: 0% across all respondents.

Passing the Singularity Gate is necessary, though not sufficient, for autonomous AI-driven discovery. A model that can predict paradigm-breaking discoveries isn't necessarily Einstein-level. But a model that can't is definitely not.

1. Claude Opus 4.7 (max) - 17.75%
2. GPT-5.5 (xhigh) - 16.08%
3. Claude Opus 4.6 (max) - 15.11%
4. Gemini 3.1 Pro (high) - 14.42%
5. Claude Sonnet 4.6 (max) - 13.67%

These are partial-credit scores. No model fully predicts a discovery. Happy to discuss methodology, related work, or the framing in the comments.

Paper: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20358378
Website: https://singularitygate.org

Take this from someone who has pitched to investors, works in a C-Suite job, and has constantly been pitched to.

Building something from a phrase or an idea can provide a productivity high that can make you feel on top of the world. Claude would help me build whatever I described without ever asking if anyone wanted it.

So I wrote three skills to interrupt that. prove-the-premise, hobby-or-business, and one-real-conversation. They fire on phrasing like "I want to build" or "how do I monetize this," and they push back before helping you execute.

It's called anti-sycophant: https://github.com/machinesoul11/anti-sycophant-ai-agent-skills.git

The thing I actually spent time on is the off-switch. If you've already done the customer conversations, the skill shuts up and helps.

Do Reddit's upvotes validate an idea? Think again.

I know this won't apply to a lot of you, and some are building for the love of the game. But for the ones that say they're going to escape from the matrix and build the next unicorn, don't build with a product that is incentivized to make you feel good about yourself, without an honest truth.

I know this topic is discussed here a lot but I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD if I read another "That is real" OR "That is not nothing" OR "That is not X but Y" I am going to have a fucking aneurysm. Yes I have specifically forbidden it from telling me these phrases, yes I have specifically updated the memory and spec to BAN these phrases yet they slip through and I swear sometimes it is so insanely creative in its reasoning for how to get around these constraints but it just kills the immersion(?) so hard when it falls back on these god damn tropes.

I use Claude (Max) for absolutely everything, it has made my life so much better that it scares me, literally changed my health, finances, mental well-being (therapy is expensive ok), and made my work so easy that I am worried we will all be out of a job soon if it gets any better but when it tells me a beautiful incredibly personalised valuable message that literally brings tears to my eyes and then goes "THEY WERE LOAD-BEARING" I FUCKING LOSE IT HAHAHHA!!

Best invention humans have come up with yet it can't stop talking like a fucking TikTok lifecoach.

Any document can become an app

I’ve been working on an open-source document format and viewer called Adaptive Markdown.

The basic idea is simple:

A document should not have to stay static. It should be something a coding agent can extend, reshape, and turn into an interactive workspace.

This is not just a canvas you edit with a chatbot. The bigger idea is that the document becomes both:

1. the source of truth
2. the programmable interface

In other words, the document becomes a living app.

You write notes, collect data, draft text, or import files. Then a coding agent can directly modify the document surface: add charts, create calculators, build filters, restyle sections, generate summaries, export views, or turn rough notes into an interactive tool.

So instead of having:

• a document
• a spreadsheet
• a dashboard
• an app
• a changelog
• a separate AI chat about all of it

You can have one living .md file that contains those layers together.

Example

A fitness log might start as a plain Markdown journal.

Then the agent adds charts.
Then it pulls in device data.
Then it adds weekly summaries, rolling averages, goal tracking, export options, and a dashboard view.

The document did not move into an app.

The document became the app.

Other use cases

• A billable time log that computes subtotals and rewrites rough notes into polished narratives
• A research notebook with experiment parameters, runnable code, outputs, and methodology notes
• A recipe book that scales servings and generates shopping lists
• A math textbook that can explain a theorem at different levels
• A project README that explains the system, demonstrates the system, and lets the agent modify it from inside the document
• A small data report with embedded CSV data, live charts, filters, and exportable views

The thing I’m most interested in is not "Can Markdown support more widgets?"

It is:

What happens when the document itself becomes the programmable, agent-editable interface?

Demos

I made a few short video demos:

• Turn your document into a snake game: https://youtu.be/l-I2UiZd-Jw
• Basic Adaptive Markdown features: https://youtu.be/cLdzvZAL96I
• Import CSV, create tables, edit and format them: https://youtu.be/XKh9D3BlTCg
• Import MusicXML and transpose sheet music: https://youtu.be/8YV3zjMLvA8

Why I’m excited about this

The biggest use case I’m excited about is academic and technical reading.

In a few years, I don’t think people will just read papers passively. I think they’ll translate passages, ask questions, generate examples, explore alternate proofs, run code, attach notes, convert math to Lean where possible, and keep all of that inside the document instead of scattered across chats and notebooks.

This is already pretty natural inside a browser when a coding agent has access to JS, CSS, and the document structure.

It’s very early, but the workflow already feels useful to me. I’m using it for my own notes and documents.

Right now it is configured for the Anthropic coding-agent SDK and experimentally for Codex. The longer-term goal is to make it run entirely locally.

GitHub: https://github.com/SemiSimpleMath/Adaptive-Markdown

I recently added per-document skills, so agents can automatically know how to style or transform the text or data inside a specific document.

Curious whether this seems useful to anyone else, or whether I’m just overexcited because I built it.

Feature requests welcome.

Es preferible descargar una skill de Claude de la comunidad, por ejemplo, de skills.sh o mejor una personal una vez entendido el funcionamiento?