A Good Start for Claude Skills

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“Vibe Check: Claude Skills Need a ‘Share’ Button” by Katie Parrott/Vibe Check: Katie Parrott built six custom skills for Claude and immediately lessened her cognitive load. The feature is powerful, but there’s no way to share skills with your team. Read this if you want an honest assessment of whether Claude Skills is ready for your workflow.

“What Jason Fried Learned From 26 Years of Building Great Products” by Rhea Purohit/AI & I: Jason Fried runs a bootstrapped company earning tens of millions in profit, but he’s more interested in making products than running a business. In this conversation with Dan Shipper, he explains why the best software feels like a Frank Lloyd Wright house, his engineers barely use AI to write code, and the biggest mistake founders make is trying to be someone else instead of “wrapping themselves around themselves” and not letting go. 🎧 🖥 Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or watch on X or YouTube.

“Stop Coding and Start Planning” by Kieran Klaassen/Source Code: Kieran Klaassen spent one hour teaching an AI agent how to analyze Figma designs and produce implementation plans, then watched it build five pixel-perfect screens while he did other work. The secret wasn’t better prompts or faster models. It was recognizing that plans teach the system how you think, while code just solves individual problems. Read this if you’re tired of debugging three hours of vibe coding that 10 minutes of planning would have prevented.

“Teach Your AI to Think Like a Senior Engineer” by Kieran Klaassen/Source Code: Kieran—who is the general manager of Cora, Every’s AI email assistant—thought building bulk email archiving would be easy. When his research agent came back and told him otherwise, he knew he was in for a challenge. It turned into a three-day endeavor, but having AI thinking ahead for him prevented him from wasting days building the wrong thing entirely. Read this if you want the eight concrete research strategies that turn planning philosophy into working systems.

“The Tool That Lets You Switch Models Without Losing Your Place” by Katie Parrott/Source Code: Kieran was a Claude Code devotee who called Droid “unimpressive.” Then, as he described in our subscriber-only Droid Camp session last week, the lightbulb went off when he discovered he could orchestrate GPT for planning, Claude Haiku for implementation, and Sonnet for refinement—all in the same terminal without losing context. He’s not the only one. Danny Aziz, general manager of Spiral, our AI writing partner, canceled both his Claude and ChatGPT Max plans for it. Read this for the Every team’s take on Droid’s model-switching prowess, as well as real workflows from developers and non-coders who’ve made Droid their default interface.