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Claude-Coding Notes, Open-Athena / Buckler Lab, 2025-07-28

Claude-Coding Notes

Open-Athena / Buckler Lab, 2025-07-28

Intro

Open-Athena projects

Open-Athena/ec2: self-terminating GHA EC2 runner

Built on:

Toy projects

runsascoded/awair: air quality sensor dashboard

runsascoded/watchy: Python library and CLI tool for fetching and tracking GitHub stargazers and followers

Demo use: ryan-williams/.watchy

Strengths / Weaknesses

Strengths

  • Terminal UI (TUI): editor agnostic, easy remote use
  • Unfamiliar languages
  • Unfamiliar frameworks / tools
  • Iterating on build/test errors
  • Fetches/Reads docs/code from internet, uses tools

Weaknesses

Things I've observed (not exhaustive!):

  • Tends to make code monotonically larger + more verbose
  • Can ignore CLAUDE.md instructions
    • e.g. npm run dev (attempts to run dev server, that never returns)
    • Hearsay: "Forbidden to use …"
  • Excessive sycophancy / suggestibility
  • Niche languages / frameworks
  • Doesn't read all the code (e.g. head/tail to slice 10-20 lines at a time)

Misc

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