The next big feature is integrated the PullBook App with the Half Decent scale so I can completely automate the “pull a shot” workflow in the app but due to a shipping delay from Hong Kong all I have is a rough implementation and a simulator as shown below :
Status report – I gave the web site a bit of a makeover and improved the automation but nothing major. I also fixed a few minor bugs in the app and ended up in a bit of a merge hell. I have a branch open for the scales integration on one machine and working on bugs on another machine and at one point I just wanted the two Claudes to connect to each other and figure out how to move forward – relaying GitHub instructions through me was just slowing the whole process down and I don’t think I was adding much to the discussion. Anyway – everything got synched and committed and a new Apple TestFlight build is on its way.
I’m still manually onboarding beta participants – we’re talking small numbers so it’s entirely manageable but would love to automate this but away as well. My long term goal is to automate everything and reduce my role to design authority, product strategy, release planning / feature prioritization and any task that still needs a pair of hands to complete.
What this experiment has show me so far is :
- I think my PM background and distance from the underlying tech is an advantage – there’s a strict division of labor between me (the what) and Claude (the how). I occasionally have to wade in with an opinion (usually in the form of a question) if I think the implementation may not be optimal. I’m equally open-minded and generally interested in Claude’s opinion of the what.
- Everything is falling into place for self-improving / self-adapting software. Take the feedback, prioritize it, implement it, test it, ship it. Rinse and repeat. An external API changes or some other catastrophic bug – find it, fix it, ship the fix. All implemented with Claude in a local loop. There needs to be name for this.
At some point I need to invest a bit of time in automating the App store distribution – right now that’s very manual and requires XCode – my suspicion is that I will have to pay GitHub (for the OS/X images) or Apple – XCode Cloud and that would violate one of my requirements for this project that I don’t spend any money (beyond Anthropic tokens).
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