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Jeremy Watt

Hi, I'm Jeremy.

Machine Learning PhD & Certified HVAC Technician

I write practical guides about building with Claude Code and AI developer tools — CI automation, testing workflows, skills, plugins, and shipping products as a solo dev.

2026

The Mac Menu Bar Is My New Scratchpad for AI Developer Tools

A short tour of five macOS menu bar apps I built to scratch my own itch, and why AI agents, XcodeBuildMCP, XC testing, and remote Mac runners make this kind of tiny native tooling much easier to ship.

5 min read
Mac AppsMenu Bar Apps

Claude Code Skills Guide

A practical index of Claude Code skill workflows: questioning, logo design, UI review, SEO research, and repo guardrails.

3 min read
Claude CodeClaude Code Skills

AskUserQuestion in Claude Code: Clarifying Questions for Skills

AskUserQuestion is the Claude Code tool that turns vague requests into structured decisions. Use it inside skills to force clarification before an agent writes code.

4 min read
Claude CodeClaude Code Skills

Weekly Side-Vibes for the Week of May 3, 2026

Dogfooding notes from a week of Mac menu bar apps, iOS workflows, BugDrop, issuectl, and small agent-powered developer tools.

5 min read
Weekly UpdateMac Apps

How to File Your Taxes with AI in 2026

A step-by-step guide to using Claude or ChatGPT for AI tax filing. Collect your documents, redact sensitive info, clean up the noise, and let AI help you fill out every form — without uploading your SSN to the cloud.

6 min read
AITaxes

Playwright MCP Save Session: Keep Logged In Across Claude Code Sessions with storageState

Stop re-authenticating every Playwright MCP session. This Claude Code plugin saves storageState authentication profiles per user role — log in once, keep your session persistent across sessions.

3 min read
Claude CodePlaywright

I'll Build Your Whole "AI Product" for Only a Third of Your Total Raise

It's 2026 and big checks are still being cut to pre-product AI companies. Here's my standard reply to the recruiters.

1 min read
AIClaude Code

The Ralph Loop is Now Basically a Fixed-Point Process

The brute-force framing misses the point. For well-defined closure tasks — plan refinement, prototype validation, implementation verification — the Ralph Loop doesn't stumble toward correctness. It converges.

6 min read
Claude CodeAI

How to Set Up Your Repo for Claude Code and Codex

Nine layers of guardrails that make AI coding agents safe, predictable, and actually useful — from CLAUDE.md to CI pipelines to specialized review agents.

14 min read
Claude CodeCodex

The Vibe Coding Interview: How to Hire AI-Assisted Developers

The old question was 'can you code?' The new question is 'can you build and ship?' A framework for evaluating engineers who use Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI-assisted coding tools.

11 min read
Vibe CodingAI