A System That Fixes Itself

The Loop, From the Outside My job is prompting. I run /start. I describe what I want. Claude works. I redirect when it goes wrong. I run /stop. That’s it. The code, the tests, the commits, the issue filing, the research — Claude does all of it. I’m not in there typing. I’m outside, watching outputs, steering. Which means the “I” that encounters friction isn’t me. It’s Claude. ...

March 9, 2026 · 4 min · 820 words · Chris Hughes

18 Services and No Index

I had 18 services running across two Raspberry Pis and a Chrome bookmarks folder full of different ports. Every few weeks I’d need one and end up clicking through bookmarks trying to remember which port was which. How I got here I use Claude Code on a couple of Raspberry Pis. Over the past few months I kept asking it to build me things — a performance report for Podly so I could see podcast processing stats visually. A SvelteKit spec browser so I could review generated codebase specifications and give Claude specific feedback. MOSAIC prototypes so I could compare three UI directions in browser tabs and pick one. Some were full apps, some were just a python3 server pointing at an HTML file. ...

March 5, 2026 · 3 min · 588 words · Chris Hughes