Have used Alfred for 10+ years at this point. Some colleagues are hyped about Raycast, but to me the pricing model is a joke. Pay (monthly) for AI - how about I bring my own API key? Pay (again, monthly) for unlimited clipboard history - lol. Free plan, "Free, forever". Yeah, until it isn't.

Alfred isn't the shiniest thing anymore but it's stood the time remarkably well, something I value very highly for tools as central to my workflow as Alfred.

You can use bring you own key for free

Awesome if that's the case

tmux users might find this useful: https://github.com/raine/workmux

Said policy:

    * Any contribution of any LLM-generated content will be rejected and result in
      an immediate ban for the contributor, without recourse.

So far not impressed with CC's ability to invoke skills automatically.

I made a skill with the unambiguous description: "Use when creating or editing bash scripts"

Yet, Claude does not invoke the skill when asked to write a bash script.

https://gist.github.com/raine/528f97375e125cf97a8f8b415bfd80...

Hah, yeah that's a total miss there.

Maybe it messed that up because writing bash scripts is so core to how Claude Code works? Much of the existing system prompt (and I bet a lot of the fine-tuning data) is about how to use the Bash tool.

For good measure, I tried:

    description: CRITICAL: Use when writing bash scripts

Surprisingly no effect either. I would've thought adding "CRITICAL" would somehow promote that instruction in the sea of context.

Try writing it like this: "Use it when creating a bash script or editing a bash script"

I tried. Claude Code can't enable a disabled MCP on the fly.

In the AI image generation scene, is there anything solid yet in the way of generating vector illustrations for apps?

I tried in my relatively small project.

    ~/c/l/web % ck --sem 'error handling'
    ℹ Semantic search: top 10 results, threshold ≥0.6
    ⠹ Searching with semantic mode...

All I got was spinning M2 Mac fan after a minute, and gave up.

interesting - can I ask you to try a ck --index . ?

It'd be nice if respected gitignore. It's turning my M4 MBP into a space heater too.

coming up next.

Fyi, I just grabbed the same lib that ripgrep uses. That bit is extracted iirc, and was quite nice and simple to use.

I saw that you added it, thanks! I'll give this a shot for a few days.

Cool. Some AI fluff can be detected in the README.

For example under the "Why CK?" section, "For teams" is of no substance compared to "For developers"

> People keep saying that Gemini 2.5 Pro can solve some problem that Sonnet 4 cannot

Most definitely can. It's insane how well just telling Claude to ask help from Gemini works in practice.

https://github.com/raine/consult-llm-mcp

Disclaimer: made it

Thank you. Will try it today.

Why would these people disclose their use of AI? These are not responsible and thoughful users of AI. The slop producers won't disclose, and the responsible users who produce high quality PRs with AI will get the "AI slop" label. At this point, why even disclose if the AI-assisted high-quality PR is indistinguishable from having been manually written (which it should be)? No point.

> Why would these people disclose their use of AI?

Because lying about your usage of AI is a good way to get completely kicked out of the open source community once caught. That's like asking 'why should you bother with anti-cheating measures for speedruns'. Why should we have any guidelines or regulations if people are going to bypass them? The answer I hope should be very obvious.

> high quality PRs with AI will get the "AI slop" label. At this point, why even disclose if the AI-assisted high-quality PR is indistinguishable from having been manually written (which it should be)? No point.

Then obviously the repository in question doesn't want people using AI and you should go elsewhere. They're not even against LLM tooling for this repo but people are freaking out because how dare you ask me to disclose what tools I'm using.

Getting kicked out from open source community for lying about using AI? Haha, good one.