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This is an exceptional setup, thank you for sharing it! I have a few questions:

1. This setup seems work-heavy. Are there any personal AI workflows that you've implemented to advance your personal goals / hobbies?

2. As one of the few people with a software factory, how well do you think it works in practice? Do you implement any rule that lets the agents to work on tickets only up to a certain complexity, or do you let the human review be the gatekeeper?

3. As CTO, how do you weigh implementing these agent workflows for yourself versus implementing them team-wide? Do you see your setup as a testbed of ideas for your team?

On a meta note, I love seeing others share their setups and I'll probably do the same later.

To Anthropic: I hope you don't merge Claude Code and chat, I like keeping their memory separate.

I understand the need for it to be in Siemens NX, but do they really run it in Windows VMs? As far as I know NX isn't certified to run in VMs without Nvidia GPU passthrough (aka Macs). It seems more sensible to maintain a fleet of Windows desktops specifically for CAD and industrial control.

Where do I find participants for my user studies then?

Your public website / blog? Sometimes you want services that are accessible publicly, like your observability and logging servers (eliminates the VPN point of failure).

I own one and there's nothing shameful about it. It's basically CNCed to Apple's standards, just without the logo. The cool thing is since Studio Displays work on Windows too, with Thunderbolt motherboards you can have a setup that's visually the same as a Mac but is actually a PC.

P.S. Does anyone know how well Studio Displays now work on Linux? The best I could get it to work was on Ubuntu, where it basically worked out of the fresh install. X11 KDE on Fedora was a close second. Couldn't get it working on Wayland whatsoever.

Agreed, but I'm making a distinction between the platform (whether it be Cloudflare Moltworker or a Mac Mini), which a human chooses for the agent to run on (for now), and tools designed to be discovered and consumed by the agents themselves (e.g. code.storage, AgentMail).

I have a suspicion most of these types of agent-targeted SaaS will die out once the human equivalents implement their agent layers / MCPs.

Agents having no way to pay for their use is one thing; lack of deep integration within the business domain is another (e.g. if you're a Git provider, you'd probably want to offer CI/CD, PR workflows, release management, publicly discoverable repos etc., and boom - you just copied GitHub)

As the psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist says, "Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being"

I'm so sorry for you and your wife's loss. At the same time, I'm struck by how strong your wife and you are navigating this tough situation. From an Internet stranger to another, may the loving memories of your daughter live on.

I feel like this needs a (1997) on the title.