I’ve been on a tear at programming this week while on vacation.
- Began reading AI literature (Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach Fourth Edition)
- Began reading learncpp - fantastic work on there
- Began reading into agents and how they work - I bought Claude Max Pro and have never pushed more code in my life
- Early MVP for my new react native app
- Finished AoC (with Claude’s help)
- Migrated my resume automation from LaTeX to
typstwith Claude’s help
Claude Opus 4.5 is Seriously Good
Ever since I’ve tested Sonnet and Gemini 6 months ago, I was not impressed from what I was seeing. To test what they could do, I gave it a few simple tasks a junior and a mid level engineer would be able to do.
The first one being adding Loki logs to a Go application (it could literally be anything) and sending it to a docker container. A few months ago it was unable to do this; last week it was.
The second one was asking it to create a Warcraft 3 Replay parser. This is a much more complicated problem because it’s given an unknown file type and it has to dissect the file byte by byte. There is an open source implementation but I forbade it from looking at it and translating it (LLMs should be able to do this without too much difficulty). I gave this problem to two people who were more knowledgeable about agents than me and they were both able to create a Go rendition and a Rust rendition. Seriously impressive results today compared to where we were a few months ago.
I was doing AoC this year and got stuck on a problem and it was able to help, and now I’m sitting on 24/24 ⭐ on my account. Seriously impressive.
On my backlog I also wanted to create a vacationing app for myself to finally go somewhere and do research on when to go, and asked Claude to help with creating an app for it. Currently a work in progress, but I’ve had decent results creating PoC workflows, working with specialized “agents”, and working with the Apple Developer suite. I think I’m still far off from releasing to the Apple App Store but it’s much better than having a prototype on the screen vs. an idea in my head. Here’s some further reading I received from some colleagues on agents:
- how-i-use-every-claude-code-feature
- The Vibes
- non-trivial-vibing from mitchell-sama
The other thing on my backlog was moving from LaTeX to typst for my resume automation.
typst promises a lot of what LaTeX offers but without the LaTeX.
I asked Claude to translate my .tex and .cls code to .typ and it was fairly successful.
Squashed a few bugs and some ATS min/maxing and it ended up being quite decent.
All in all this may sound like I have a problem taking time off (I do and am creating an app for this problem) and this is an advertisement for Claude Max (honestly it may be).
Do I add vibe coding as one of my skills now on my resume and my home page?