Episode 101 – This Episode Was Edited by Claude
Peter: Friends With Brews.
Scott: Peter.
Peter: Scott. I’m surprised you remember me.
Scott: You know, the funny thing about that background is your hairstyle is changing as much as Theo’s.
Peter: ([laughs]) But if I was Theo, I would hold the microphone up to my, to my mouth and talk like so, so to make sure you got all the pops and-
Scott: Right
Peter: … plosions
Scott: And distortion. Yeah.
Peter: Yes. I saw someone else do that too, so.
Scott: Well, a lot of people hold the DJI mics. They, they all hold them. Everybody holds them, and I don’t understand why, but most people don’t blow them into distortion like Theo was doing.
Peter: Yeah, yeah.
Scott: Instead of just clipping it on. It doesn’t… Oh, wait. Uh, it doesn’t just… Wait, it just, um And it just f***ing works. But it doesn’t.
Peter: ([sighs])
Scott: By the way-
Peter: What are you up to… It, it’s, uh, yeah, let’s go
Scott: … the mix volume there, did that sound clip sound about roughly equivalent to the volume of my voice-
Peter: Pretty close
Scott: … roughly about. Okay. Good enough. Good.
Peter: He was, he was slightly louder than you, but-
Scott: Yeah. Well, that’s Theo for you. He’s slightly louder than Scott Willsey. That’s his… That’s my review of him, slightly louder than me.
Peter: ([laughs]) Fair enough. ([laughs]) So-
Scott: He’s slightly louder than me
Peter: … so it’s been a minute since we’ve recorded.
Scott: It has been a while. I don’t know if you’ve noticed from our Friends With Brews YouTube channel, but I have been… I did put up the two bar hopping videos of us from my trip to the East Coast.
Peter: Yes, I did.
Scott: Okay. Excellent. And they’ve gotten about five views. Some of our shorter ones have gotten quite a bit of views, though. People like seeing you in a tub. I’ll just throw that out there. Um-
Peter: They like the, they like seeing me drink the world’s worst coffee. I’m sorry, the number three best coffee in the world. ([coughs])
Scott: Yeah. And the one short that I had of myself drinking a beer got way more views than any of the ones I’ve done of me drinking coffee. So there’s that.
Peter: Yeah.
Scott: Now-
Peter: That’s kind of cool.
Scott: Yeah. Anyway, uh, the robot, you… The one where you were trying to get them to brew you a drink via a dead robot, that one got quite a bit of views.
Peter: Yep. Yep.
Scott: So.
Peter: ([sighs]) So, yeah. Yeah.
Scott: How are you?
Peter: I’m thirsty because I’ve been waiting for a long time to-
Scott: Mm
Peter: … drink my new, new brew.
Scott: I wonder why. Whoa, you’ve got a can and a cup.
Peter: I do. It was keeping it cooler.
Scott: All right. Talk about your brew, my friend.
Peter: So this is a return brewery, but a new brew. This is Athletic Brewing Company’s Atlética Mexican-style copper.
Scott: Ooh, that sounds good. ([can opens]) Wait, does this make you athletic?
Peter: No, but drinking it won’t necessarily make me not athletic.
Scott: Ah, as opposed to every other beer.
Peter: Yep, pretty much.
Scott: I gotta say… Okay, before you review this, I have to say Athletic Brewing Company has staged a huge turnaround in the eyes of Peter Nikolaidis. Do you remember the first one you had and how bad you hated it, and you couldn’t understand-
Peter: Yep
Scott: … why anyone would ever drink from them?
Peter: It despicably tasted like regret-
Scott: Yeah. ([laughs])
Peter: … but things have changed. First off, I’ve tried a different, uh, different brews from them.
Scott: Yep.
Peter: And that, that… Those were sort of like the gateway brews into others. Um, so-
Scott: Yeah
Peter: … yeah. Let’s, let’s see what happens when you… Huh. It’s a pretty heavy pour, though.
Scott: I was gonna say, that is some serious foam.
Peter: Ah. As with most things Athletic Brewing Company, it tastes kind of like a beer.
Scott: Okay.
Peter: Um-
Scott: What kind of beer does it taste like almost?
Peter: It tastes kind of like a cerveza. Um, it’s, it’s a little, you know, like a, a copper lager kind of thing. It’s a little watery. Maybe it’s the pour. I don’t remember it feeling this watery last time I had one.
Scott: Hmm.
Peter: But, you know, if you’re going for something that tastes like a beer, this tastes like a beer.
Scott: Okay.
Peter: Um, it is not offensively hoppy, and, um, you know, it’s got some beer-like taste to it. Um, I recently only found out because I’ve been watching the World Cup at a local sports bar a lot, because every four years I become, you know, a soccer fan.
Scott: Right. ([laughs])
Peter: Um, and you know, they’ve got all the brews and they list all of their ABVs, and I never really realized that, like, the difference between regular beer and light beer in America is about 1%, if that.
Scott: Really?
Peter: Because, like, light beers are, like, 4 to 4.2%. Regular beers are, like, 4.5 to 5 point something percent.
Scott: Yeah.
Peter: So-
Scott: But the, the light beers usually are less calories, like sometimes half the calories-
Peter: True
Scott: … maybe-ish, two-thirds maybe.
Peter: Yeah. Well, this one, on that note, this is a 60-calorie brew, right?
Scott: Yeah.
Peter: Now, the funny thing is, their Athletic Light, which I believe I have reviewed on this show before, actually seems to have more flavor than this at the moment, but maybe it’s just a, a weird memory. I don’t know. But anyway, you know, uh, would I buy… Would I drink it again? This is, like, the fourth one of these that I’ve had. Not today, but yes, I would drink this again.
Scott: Speaking of, I believe I’ve covered that on this show before, when we get to talking about our projects, put… remind me that I want to cover that specific thing. What have I said on Friends with Brews?
Peter: Okay.
Scott: ’Cause I have a project I’m working on to help with that.
Peter: All right. Uh-
Scott: And by the way, I’m gonna drink a non-Athletic beer, but I am standing in tree pose right now, although you can’t see my legs. Um-
Peter: I will join you in tree pose. I am also standing in tree pose right now.
Scott: Very good. All right. I am having a Sapporo- Oh, Oriental beer
Peter: … the nor- the Oriental, the, the beer-
Scott: ([laughs])
Peter: … the Japanese beer made in, uh, brewed in Italy.
Scott: Oh, my wife looks at me so disgustedly whenever I say Oriental. I mean, people used to say that. I believe that within the last three years I’ve actually heard someone say Oriental and they meant it, like, I don’t, I don’t know who they were or how-
Peter: One of-
Scott: … they hit their head
Peter: … one of my favorite Dungeons & Dragons books when I was a kid was Oriental Adventures.
Scott: ([laughs]) Yes.
Peter: And it had a picture of, uh-
Scott: Ah
Peter: … I’ve got to double check, it’s a ninja on foot going up against a samurai, I think on, like, a kirin.
Scott: Mm-hmm.
Peter: Speaking of, you know, s- uh, J- Japanese beers.
Scott: Speaking of beers.
Peter: Yeah.
Scott: Yeah. I also have Kirin, which I might go get if I drink this. I’m gonna need it after my adventures with my camera today.
Peter: ([laughs])
Scott: So anyway, this is a Sapporo. It is a Japanese beer. It says, “Discover the perfectly balanced taste that’s irresistible to all.” Irresistible to all. I’ll give this to my daughter. She’s not of age yet, but it says irresistible to all. All right, I’m gonna open this. ([can opening]) And I’m going to pour into my Powell’s Books Portland cup. It’s a Portland cup, Peter. I’m tilting at an angle so that I won’t foam it all up like Peter did.
Peter: Mm.
Scott: I’m not judging.
Peter: Maybe that’s why it’s so watery. I used up all the bubbles, all, all the carbonation on the bubbles.
Scott: Oh, I was gonna ask you, how do you compare it on the water scale to Guinness?
Peter: This one tastes comparably watery to a Guinness NA.
Scott: So what would you describe the Japanese beers as? They’re basically lagers, right?
Peter: Yeah. I think they remind me of, like, pilsners or…
Scott: Yeah
Peter: … slightly, usually slightly more bitter.
Scott: Yes. Yeah, yeah.
Peter: Than what I’m used to.
Scott: Right. Now, the Kirin is a little more citrusy, but I’ve decided that I kinda like the neutral taste of the Sapporo, and Asahi and Sapporo taste a lot the same to me.
Peter: Mm.
Scott: But here goes my Sapporo. Yeah. I buy these at Uwajimaya now, ’cause I can buy 12 packs and six packs, or 12 pack, 18. I can buy the huge packs, whatever they are.
Peter: Cool.
Scott: Um, but when I used to just run over for a single can here and there at, um, not Whole Paycheck, but the other one, New Seasons, the lady said to me, “Yeah, those are a good beer just to have in general ’cause they’re kinda neutral.” And I’m like, “Yeah, they’re very non-offensive.” You won’t ever regret having this beer. It may not be your favorite beer. It may not be the best beer for all circumstances. But this is a beer that you can always rely on to be just a good beer. And I will say that this kind of lighter beer is really good in the summer.
Peter: So it doesn’t taste like regret.
Scott: It doesn’t taste like regret. This is 4.9% alcohol. And yeah, I like Sapporo. Now, when I was in Japan, whenever I went to all the restaurants, I always wound up having Asahi or Sapporo.
Peter: Mm-hmm. Like you do.
Scott: Didn’t have a lot of Kirin in the restaurants. But I was buying the Kirin in the, um, konbini, the convenience stores, the 7-Elevens, if you will. But anyway, this is a Sapporo. I give it a… And I give it another… And I, not only have I had it before, not only am I having it now, but I will have it again, Peter, I will. You can’t stop me. Stop stopping me. Stop.
Peter: I’m not trying to stop you.
Scott: Okay. That’s not very Theo. Like, you’re definitely not Theo. I take it all back.
Peter: ([sighs]) I’m sorry your beer is s***, and I’m sorry mine is, too.
Scott: ([laughs]) Do I have that? Oh, I do. Here we go. I’m sorry your software is s***. Oh. And I’m sorry mine is, too.
Peter: You’re gonna-
Scott: What?
Peter: You’re gonna love this. Guess what? So remember the issues I was having with backups on my MacBook?
Scott: I do.
Peter: And how I cleared all kinds of crap out and was able to recover, like, a half terabyte of my terabyte hard drive space?
Scott: Yep.
Peter: I’m back down to 17 gigabytes free right now. And Parachute backup has not been running, which tells me that it, once again, is gotta be Arc.
Scott: So you may have a MacBook, but you don’t have a back-book, ’cause you can’t back it up.
Peter: I have got no book. I’ve got a closed book at this rate. I need to-
Scott: Do you know who you remind me of with those-
Peter: ([sighs])
Scott: … free space numbers? You remind me-
Peter: Hm
Scott: … of a guy I know named Jacob, who’s constantly running out of disk space.
Peter: I have twice as much as I need. And look, I stopped Arc-
Scott: ([laughs])
Peter: … and I got 20 gigs back already.
Scott: Peter scared me. Yo.
Peter: All right. Yep.
Scott: ([laughs])
Peter: Now I got 40 gigs free.
Scott: ([laughs])
Peter: So all I did is I stopped the existing Arc backup, and I’m just watching my… I’ve tripled-
Scott: Yeah
Peter: … my free space.
Scott: Peter, because you pointed out something that I didn’t know, and I don’t understand this because I don’t understand why everybody in the world isn’t s***ing their pants over it, which is Arc requires double the space of the items that it needs to back up because it needs to duplicate the entire thing to back it up. It’s crazy. You have to have-
Peter: But it’s-
Scott: … a two-terabyte drive to back up a one-terabyte drive.
Peter: But it doesn’t even really still do it. Oh, now I’m up to 71 gigs of free space. I’m just watching the-
Scott: But I’ve never heard of anything so-
Peter: … I’m watching the free space just climb
Scott: … f***ing… I’ve never heard of anything so insane.
Peter: So I will say this.
Scott: You’re moving this off computer, right?
Peter: Yeah, to the cloud. Arc, to Arc Cloud.
Scott: Yeah, so why doesn’t-
Peter: Yeah
Scott: … it just pump it straight to the cloud? Apparently it has to consolidate it into a neat little package.
Peter: Yeah.
Scott: And then ship the package.
Peter: So I will say, there’s an example. There, there is a time where I know where it makes sense where you do need to have double the space to do your backups.
Scott: Okay.
Peter: And that is with a backup and disaster recovery platform that I know you are familiar with. Um, but if you look at things like the Barracudas or the Datto solutions where they have an on-prem backup-
Scott: Yes
Peter: … right? Where it’s going to the cloud, but it also keeps a local backup.
Scott: Oh.
Peter: Right?
Scott: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Peter: And the reason, say if, say you’re backing up one terabyte of data total, they want you to have two terabytes of space because those boxes have the ability to spin up virtual machines And you need a place to store those virtual or to run those virtual machines-
Scott: Yes
Peter: … right?
Scott: Right.
Peter: Arc is not doing that. Arc ain’t doing that.
Scott: As far as you know.
Peter: I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen an ability to spin up a virtual restore of, um, an Arc machine, uh, backup, yeah.
Scott: Peter, it may not be spinning up the virtual machine for you. It may be spinning it up for the NSA.
Peter: Ooh.
Scott: It may be spinning it up for some random Chinese hackers.
Peter: I gotta think about… Now here’s the thing. I-
Scott: Oh, I’m sorry
Peter: … still-
Scott: I meant oriental hackers. ([laughs])
Peter: Right, oriental hackers. I’m still only at 71 gigs free, so this thing has still chewed up 400 gigs of space that I cannot account for.
Scott: Oh, dear.
Peter: And I had Claude debugging this for me a while ago, but I can’t find the Claude Code window where that happened, so.
Scott: Because… You know why? Because it ran out of space and it deleted all of Claude’s messages.
Peter: Speaking of Claude-
Scott: That’s a little unlucky
Peter: … at the time of, ([laughs]) at the time of this, uh, recording-
Scott: Yep
Peter: … Claude Fable has been extended to us for the second week in a row.
Scott: They- I know. They keep extending it. Why? Because they don’t have a comparable model to GPT 5.6 if they don’t keep extending Fable 5.
Peter: Yeah. Um, but in classic anthropic fashion, I still have trouble authenticating to them. You pointed out to me that Claude Code now has its own browser built in.
Scott: It does. It does-
Peter: And-
Scott: … if you use Claude Code in the app, which I will say, like-
Peter: Well, it, it has it in the terminal. I’m using it in CMUX, and when I told… When I typed /usage-credits so I could toggle from using my Claude Max account to API credits-
Scott: Uh-huh, uh-huh
Peter: … it opened up a new tab, and it popped up a Google authentication page for me to authenticate.
Scott: Oh, that might be… Okay, that might be a CMUX-specific thing where it opens links in the browser. There is an option for that.
Peter: Um, okay.
Scott: You might wanna check that.
Peter: Okay. I had never seen it, but until you… It was coincident when you mentioned-
Scott: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah
Peter: … “Hey, it has a browser,” and then boom, a browser showed up. Um-
Scott: You might still be right, but just double-check ’cause CMUX, I believe, does have an option for if I click on a… If I’m opening a webpage link, open it in this app.
Peter: Hmm. Okay. So that might be this. I might, might have con- conflated two things.
Scott: Yeah.
Peter: Uh, regardless, it didn’t work, so I still had to copy the link, paste it into an actual Chrome browser, get the, you know, return off key, and paste it back in.
Scott: Yep.
Peter: Um, but yeah, we… Coincident to all of this and coincident to Fable, coincident to me using up all of my Fable credits-
Scott: Mm-hmm, in 2.5 seconds
Peter: … I re- no, it took a, it took a few days. I definitely got a lot out of it. And I will say, I agree with your initial take on Fable. It, it was fixing software bugs that Opus had just been spinning its wheels on for a long time.
Scott: The, the thing I found about Fable that’s amazing is it just goes in and analyzes what’s going on, and it is good at that.
Peter: Yeah.
Scott: It’s very good at going, “Oh, here’s what’s going on.”
Peter: Yeah. So it did that with me, but it… I ran out of credits after a few days.
Scott: Yeah.
Peter: And I was… Pretty much I’d gotten almost all the showstopper bugs and the stuff done with my forthcoming KVM, uh, KM switch coming out soon.
Scott: Mm-hmm.
Peter: And then I got that email, which I think you might have gotten the same email, saying, “Hey, a few y- a few months ago, we gave out $100 usage credits to people.”
Scott: Yeah.
Peter: “And most people didn’t actually use them, so you’ve still got $91 of usage credits.” And I was like-
Scott: Yep
Peter: … “Well, that’s funny because I just burned through all of my Fable allowance under my Max plan. So I’ll go ahead and enable that.” So I went into /usage-credits. I said, “Yep, use my API,” and then nothing changed. But I was able to start working again, but I looked at my usage credits, and the number’s not going down. And a day went by, and I had racked up, according to Fable, about a $100 bill in my console, so I’m like, “Did I just pay $100 of usage?” And I even-
Scott: Yeah
Peter: … asked Claude. I was like, “What’s going on? How do I do this?” They’re like, “Oh, yeah, you look here. You should see this. You should see everything’s fine. Um, yeah, that number should go down. Make sure you turn this on.” I’m like, “I’ve done all these things. It’s not moving.” “Oh, make sure you have your API key set.” I’m like, “I have an API key set, yep.” “Oh, did you use usage credit?” “Yeah, I used usage credits. I pointed it at the API.” And then today, after a couple of days, my available usage credits are down to, like, $1.81.
Scott: Oh.
Peter: So it was using them.
Scott: Oh.
Peter: It just-
Scott: It just wasn’t updating
Peter: … took the ac- took the accounting, you know, the accounting Claudes a little time to catch up to the fact.
Scott: Well, I gotta say the accounting Claudes are pretty slow because, ([laughs]) months ago, I tried to buy my brother some extra usage. I actually tried to… What did I do? Oh, I just bought him a bunch of credits. That’s all.
Peter: Mm-hmm.
Scott: And I don’t remember what happened, but they definitely charged me for the credits, but he had no way to actually use the credits. I don’t remember what the exact scenario was, but anyway, he couldn’t use the credits. So I filled out a thing saying, “Hey, I, I paid for these credits, and my brother can’t use them, so that’s a waste of money. I, I want my money back.” And it took them three months to respond. The funny thing is, in the meantime, it started working for him. He was able to use the credits, but they were so slow and stupid that they refunded me the money anyway. ([laughs]) Ah. So not only did he finally get access to the credits, but then they finally responded to me going, “Yep, you’re absolutely right. ([laughs]) Here’s your money.”
Peter: What?
Scott: I was like, “Oh my God, I would, I would actually bring this up and try to correct this, except you are so fing stupid and so fing late that I just think this is your problem, not mine.” As Theo would say.
Peter: That’s all right.
Scott: Do you understand? Yes. Do you understand?
Peter: No, you do not understand. ([sighs])
Scott: So anyway.
Peter: So yeah.
Scott: The accounting Claudes are dumb, but the programming Claude is pretty good.
Peter: Yeah, but, but yeah, I think the accounting Claude and the authentication Claude are probably the same Claude.
Scott: Yeah, probably the same Claude. Yeah, it’s doing too many things.
Peter: And, and I think by that I mean it’s a clod, a C-L-O-D.
Scott: It’s- ([laughs])
Peter: You little dumb clod.
Scott: You know, um…
Peter: Yeah, anyway.
Scott: Yeah. So-
Peter: So, yeah. Now, I’ve noticed recently, also before we leave Claude, Claude Code, sessions are synchronizing between the Claude app and whatever terminal I’m running them in.
Scott: Oh, they’ve always been doing that. They’ve been doing that-
Peter: So-
Scott: … for a long time. Yeah.
Peter: Okay. So I only-
Scott: And in fact, I have… Yeah, they’ve been doing that, and also I do have a third-party app that we’ve talked about before on this show that I’m running that shows my usage.
Peter: Mm.
Scott: It shows my session and weekly usage and when they reset. But yeah, actually Claude Code in the terminal and Claude the app itself are really good about showing that information now.
Peter: So that’s helpful, except-
Scott: Yep
Peter: … the conversation where I had Claude free up disk space with Arc-
Scott: Mm-hmm
Peter: … more than just the 71 gigs. That one’s not showing up in my history anywhere. ([sighs])
Scott: Peter, you gotta be careful with asking LLMs to free up disk space.
Peter: ([laughs])
Scott: And especially when your backup’s not working.
Peter: ([laughs])
Scott: I, I showed you a l- a post on X of this guy who… And by the way, I hate X. I agree with everybody who’s right now going, “My God, why?” Because it’s the only place that Anthropic posts and it’s the only place that some of the LLM people post. So basically what I try to do is I try to get a summary, and luckily my notifications for some reason just surfaces all of those people’s posts, so I don’t really have to look at X itself. Anyway, um, yeah, so this guy was running… He normally runs Claude Code, I guess. He was running GPT 5.6 because somebody at OpenAI asked him to test something and he was doing something, and it wiped out his Mac’s home directory. But he had no backups, Peter. This guy does not back up his Mac. In 2026, the easiest operating system, it comes with Time Machine built in. Even if you just want the dumb Time Machine and you want a local version backup, you can get it for the cost of a drive. You don’t have to know how to work any software, you don’t have to know anything. And, ugh, I just don’t get it. But… And then other backup solutions for any OS, even Linus probably, are so cheap and ridiculous, you know, by comparison to the cost of owning a computer, but certainly compared to the cost of having an LLM wipe out your home directory. It just doesn’t make any sense anymore, and I’m just like, “What are you doing?” Why would you allow any LLM, you know, access beyond the, you know, having to ask for permission for each step? Why would you allow that if you don’t have some backup mechanism? I constantly am putting Claude Code into always allow mode, but I have tons of backups. I have multiple ways that my computer’s backed up, both on-site and off-site.
Peter: I can imagine there are plenty of people who are 100% in AI we trust. It’s God.
Scott: I-
Peter: We meet God.
Scott: But it’s not just AI. They’re trusting their hard drive will never fail, they’re trusting somebody won’t run away with their computer, they’re trusting they won’t dump it in the toilet. I don’t know why they’re using their laptop on the toilet, but I know they are. Anyway, they’re trusting that all these things aren’t gonna happen, but these things do happen on a routine basis. They’re trusting… Hell, I watched a freaking tornado video from I don’t remember what state the other night, and everybody’s house just disappeared. They’re trusting that won’t happen. They’re trusting a lot of things not to happen, Peter, and I just don’t know how they can possibly know that those things aren’t gonna happen.
Peter: ([laughs])
Scott: How do they know? Tell me. Tell me how they know, Peter-
Peter: I, I-
Scott: … because I wanna be able to know
Peter: … yeah, I don’t, I don’t know.
Scott: Okay.
Peter: I have no idea. Yeah.
Scott: What do you know?
Peter: No idea.
Scott: All right. You have a good list of things that you wanted to talk about today. Let’s, uh, let’s start talking about them, ’cause I’m interested in them.
Peter: So, well, a couple of really quick… a couple of grumpy things, get out of the way too.
Scott: Okay.
Peter: Um, I had to be landlording again for the last couple of days.
Scott: Why?
Peter: ’Cause I got a text from the neighbors at my rental property saying, “Sounds like an alarm is going off.” So I texted my tenants, and they’re like, “Oh, we’re out of town.” And I was like, “Well, sounds like it could be an emergency. I’m gon- just giving you notice that I’m entering the premises.”
Scott: Hey, I-
Peter: I get there-
Scott: That’s better than if they would’ve just said, “We don’t hear it.” ([laughs]) And not tell you that they’re out of town.
Peter: I have had… Are you ready to bleep me? Fing idiot tenants who would have done that stupid s.
Scott: Yeah.
Peter: I have had people as tenants who were that f***ing stupid. So-
Scott: Yes
Peter: … these… The, the current tenants do not fall into that, um, uh, that category, thankfully.
Scott: They remember that they’re out of town. Brilliant.
Peter: So yeah, they told me that. So I go there, I open the door, and sure enough, the fire alarm is going off, and it’s saying, “Fire. Fire. Evacuate.” I’m like, “Okay.” Look around, no fire. I silence the thing. Everything’s good. Okay, great. I did notice, I was like, “It smells a little funny in here,” but it’s just, like, their detergent or something, you know, so it smells different. So I was like, “Okay, I don’t know, but I’m gonna just turn the thermostat, just tell it to run the fan for the next eight hours.”
Scott: Yeah.
Peter: So I do. So I text them, I tell them that’s what happened. They said, “Oh yeah, that’s g- that’s happened, like, three or four times before.” I’m like, “Okay.” Now, some tenants are the type who will call the landlord at the drop of a hat, and others are the type who will never say anything, you know? And it’ll be like, “Oh yeah, maybe I should have told you that the roof was leaking, but I never bothered to, so that’s why I’m withholding $2,000 from this month’s rent check because my bed got ruined because the roof leaked all over it,” or something like that. Um, that, that, that sort of stuff has happened. Not to me personally, but I’ve, you know, firsthand experience with tenants like that. So I was like, “Okay, you know, the, the fire s- s- life safety ki- that’s the kind of thing you should tell me about.” Like, you know, and these tenants, they’ve told me about, like, clogged drains- Um, the water, uh, the hot water nozzle not sh- shutting off completely, you know, and a bunch of little things. So I was like, all right. So then I get an email from another one of the owners that their tenants are complaining, and they say, “Oh, the alarm’s been going off all morning.” Now, there was a while, because this was an email, and I was like, “Uh, I was there this morning and I silenced it. What, when ex- what time exactly is this happening?”
Scott: Mm-hmm.
Peter: And then this morning, or yeah, I get another text saying, “Yeah, it is, it is making that noise again.” Now, I went there y- when I made the second trip, ’cause I did make a return trip. On my second trip, I pulled all of the units out of the, out of their sockets, right? I’m like, okay, the tenants are the, are… They’re gone for, like, a week and a half, so it’s not gonna do any good anyway. So I physically unmounted all of the, the, um, the smoke alarms. So then I get a n- note saying, “Oh no, we still hear it.” I’m like, “Okay.” So I go, and sure enough, one of the units sitting on the floor is beeping. So at least the good news is now I know which one it is. So I push the button to silence it, remount the other two in the bedrooms, and I leave and I bring it back home. Meanwhile, I’ve emailed my electrician who installed these, and I was like, “Is this a warranty thing? Can you help me with this?” You know, and I get no response. The unit’s sitting on my countertop here at home, and it starts going off, “Fire! Fire!” So I push the button to shut it up. Minute later, it goes off again. I’m like, “What the hell?” I push the button to shut it off. It gets to the point where I, unless I am holding the silence button, it’s immediately going off. So at this point I’m like, I mean, I threw it in the refrigerator. I can still hear it. ([laughs]) I’m like, “Okay, this is ridiculous.” Go downstairs to get a screwdriver, and I flip the little, you know, permanently discharge and destroy this thing. And then I find out that, oh yeah, I can just call them up. So I call up the manufacturer. I’m on hold for a while, and I take out the trash. I come back in. They’re sending a replacement. Wonderful. Um, but anyway, that was just adventures in landlording. It could have been worse, I guess, but it’s just, like, it’s annoying. You know, these little things come up and, you know, like, ugh, I don’t know. Sometimes I just wanna sell my rental properties and just invest them in the S&P 500-
Scott: Well-
Peter: … and just, you know.
Scott: See, that’s the thing. And, and these would be people that you consider good tenants, like.
Peter: But if they’re gone-
Scott: Right
Peter: … you know, they can’t do anything about it.
Scott: Or-
Peter: And what if this had happened when I was on vacation, you know? And like, then I gotta find someone else to come in, and it’s just, ugh.
Scott: It’s a hassle.
Peter: Yeah.
Scott: Yeah. And so I guess what I was trying to say there was can you imagine having to deal with that plus have terrible, you know, tenants?
Peter: Oh, I can imagine tenants saying like, you know, like, “Yeah, it’s beeping,” and expect me to like, you know, like silence it for them every time and stuff. ([laughs])
Scott: How did, how long does it take you to get over there from your place?
Peter: It’s less than a mile away, so-
Scott: Oh, okay
Peter: … it’s just five minutes.
Scott: What else? Is that the only grumpy, or you got another grumpy?
Peter: I ordered a, a new Sonos, a little, a new piece of Sonos gear for my Vermont house.
Scott: Uh-huh.
Peter: Um, because Sonos, they have this, uh, program where you can upgrade your old equipment for a 15% discount on new equipment.
Scott: Hmm.
Peter: And with the remodeling that I’ve got going on, I needed another amp, Sonos amp. And I got an email saying, “For a limited time, we’re doubling your upgrade credit from 15% to 30%.” I was like, “Well, okay. Sure.” And I, since I’m planning to head up to Vermont, I was like, “Don’t drop ship it to me. I will pick it up at the Best Buy in New Hampshire right along the way.” Great. I do that. Order comes in and says, “Great, you have until July 15th to pick it up.” And I was like, ([sighs]) “I’m not gonna be there by the 15th. I need one extra day.” I call Best Buy. “We can’t help you with this, but you can change this at the sonos.com website.” I go to the Sonos site. “You cannot change this via the sonos.com website.” So I email Sonos Support. I’m like, “Hey, here’s what’s going on. I can’t make it. I need one extra day.” They’re like, “We can’t help you.”
Scott: Oh my God.
Peter: “What we will automatically send it back. But what we can do is cancel that order and make a new one, and that will give you the additional time.” I’m like, “Fine.”
Scott: Sometimes the problems that can’t be solved, out of all of the problems that humanity has ever encountered, ([laughs]) are the dumbest things.
Peter: Uh-huh. I mean, that’s a workaround though, right? Like, why will… Because nobody programmed into the system a, an extend pickup date button. So instead we’ll just cancel this one and, you know, ugh.
Scott: But even, why can’t they even just fool it by having some guy just hide it somewhere and then, okay, fine. What are they gonna do? What is the system gonna do? The computer literally can’t walk into the warehouse and pull it out. ([laughs])
Peter: Well, my suspicion is that Best Buy probably has a bunch of these in stock.
Scott: Yeah.
Peter: And so it’s all just trading paper, just moving around-
Scott: Right
Peter: … you know, and stuff.
Scott: They’re holding one for you. They wouldn’t be holding one. Chances are it would still be there.
Peter: Right. But I’m not gonna get my 30% discount if I just walk in off the street and, and buy that, you know?
Scott: Right.
Peter: So.
Scott: Yeah, for sure.
Peter: Oh, man.
Scott: That is so dumb.
Peter: Anyway.
Scott: Unbelievable.
Peter: So let’s talk a little bit about, um-
Scott: Let’s do
Peter: … what we are doing with Claude Code these days.
Scott: Yeah. Let’s.
Peter: What’s your favorite project? And let’s, we don’t have to go through all of them, but why don’t-
Scott: No
Peter: … we each take, like, the three, our top three projects with Claude Code?
Scott: Well, I’m just gonna talk about one. Um-
Peter: Okay. Let’s talk about-
Scott: And I’ll-
Peter: … our top one projects with Claude Code
Scott: … and then I’ll give you the floor. I’m not gonna give you the name, but the short name is VOB. And what VOB is, the reason I’m not giving you the name is because-
Peter: I can’t get that song out of my freaking head
Scott: ([laughs]) Sorry. The reason why is because I want the name to… I may use this name. I may put this… I may, you know, offer this for a very low price. Anyway, what this is, is, um, it’s a voice transcription app. And yes, everybody does voice transcription apps. This is one that runs on the Mac. It also runs on iOS. And the thing that’s different about this is that I get to choose my models, which is obvious for me, but if I make this available to other people, they get to choose their models. So you plug in your own API key. Now, why would you do this, you ask? Because I was using Wispr Flow, and Wispr Flow was causing me… Causing me? It was causing me money. It was costing me, I don’t know, um, $150 a year? 100… I don’t remember. I started using it when my hand was broken, when my tendon was broken. And I thought to myself, “Would it be cheaper…” B- There were other reasons, too. There were a couple things I didn’t like about it. I really hated the keyboard in the iOS app ([clears throat]) for making corrections, which ironically, mine doesn’t have a keyboard. What it does have is it has the little transcription thing, and then it shows you the latest transcriptions. So if you want, you can just paste them into something real quick. Um, but from there, it’s a quick tap away to the real keyboard, which is a much more satisfying experience for making any corrections. So I, I’ve actually kind of liked that approach. I thought it would be annoying, but I actually really like it better than Wispr Flow’s. But anyway, the point is, um, like I’m using ElevenLabs Scribe V2 as my model. It’s pennies per month. Even if I transcribe many messages per day, it just does not add up.
Peter: Yep.
Scott: So just in terms of cost alone, I’m saving money. But then the other benefit is I get to make the UI the way I want it. I get to make the dictionary the way I want it. I get to make the transcriptions the way… You know, I get to handle the pre-processing. Like, I have things that say, “Get rid of false starts.” Well, it does that in two different stages. It, it sends, you know… The ElevenLabs model has the ability to do some of that, but there’s also some of that locally, um, if it comes back and it’s not happy with what ElevenLabs did. So I have control over the ability to, to make that stuff as good or bad as I want, you know? So that’s why I made this. And, uh, in addition to the cost, it gives me the features that I want, and I, I just like the way this works on my Mac and iOS better. I was finding that with Wispr Flow, when I would trigger it on the Mac, there would be a delay before I could… It, I don’t… Over time, there would be a delay before I could start talking, and it started driving me insane. And so what I would do is I would quit the app, clear a bunch of stuff out, start it up again. I would get rid of the delay for a while, but the delay would always come back. And I don’t wanna have to manage the app. I don’t wanna have to just random… You know, I don’t wanna have to remember, oh, I need to quit the app today so that I can, you know… So-
Peter: You mean like with my backups?
Scott: So far I haven’t had… Huh?
Peter: You mean, like, with my backups?
Scott: With your MacBook, yeah. Your MacBook Pro. So far, I haven’t had that problem with this app. So yeah, that’s my project, VOB, and I’m possibly gonna put that one up for sale.
Peter: Cool.
Scott: Which you may have, you may have, uh, uh, you may have opportunity to talk about selling apps here in a minute. I don’t know. But anyway-
Peter: In five minutes. Cool
Scott: … let’s hear about your pro- Oh, the other project I am gonna work on is for you and me. I’m going to make a vector database for all of the stuff that we’ve done on Friends With Brew so that we can search-
Peter: Mm-hmm
Scott: … and find related things and so on and so forth. And because it’s gonna have an API, we can search it on the website on a separate search page, but also we will be able to just point our LLMs at it and say, “Hey, Claude, tell me what I…” You know. So that’ll be pretty cool. So you’ll be able to say, “I just need a reminder if I’ve ever talked about this before,” and you can have Claude go look for you. You don’t have to go search for your- for yourself, for example.
Peter: So I can type my query into Claude instead of typing my query into the search page?
Scott: Yeah, exactly. But Claude can worry about the details. And you know, I used to think that people using LLMs for search was stupid.
Peter: Hmm.
Scott: But using a good LLM for search is actually not stupid at all. It’s actually quite helpful.
Peter: So my project that I’m working on is… It’s gonna be the, the flagship project, uh, product perhaps, of scratchitchsoftware.com.
Scott: Mm-hmm.
Peter: My new little… Sp- This thing is… Vibe Coding has unleashed so many new little projects.
Scott: Yeah.
Peter: The fl- flagship product, though, is called AcrossKM, because it is a keyboard mouse sharing program that lets you move the mouse across multiple displays-
Scott: Mm-hmm
Peter: … on multiple computers. And what people might often say is, like, “But can’t you already do that?” Like, yeah, if you have a Mac, you have two Macs, and you’re in the same iCloud account or in the same Apple ID, by default you can share the keyboard and m- and mouse across them. That’s one use case which is kinda cool. But if you have a Windows machine, you can’t do that. And if you have two Macs without linking the same iCloud account, for example, one for work, one for personal, you can’t do that. Uh, and if you have two Windows machines, you can’t do that all out of the box. So AcrossKM is a simple program to fix that. Um, I have been developing it very actively and aggressively, thanks to Claude, for some time now. And it is just about ready for release. So I don’t know if it’s gonna be released by the time, uh, this episode drops, but hopefully shortly after. So, uh, that’s the, uh, the flagship product. I’m also going to release a couple of very tiny little utilities, um, fairly cheap. Some might be free. One is called, uh, CmdTab, and it is a direct competitor to the program AltTab, ’cause AltTab used to have a free version and a paid version. I’m not opposed to paying for software, but they, in my opinion, completely botched the move to paid, and they changed settings. So, like, the things that I had that were working suddenly went away, and the… Like, the settings were just trashed. And of course, it happened at the least convenient time when I was using this program aggressively. So I, in a fit of frustration, vibe-coded a replacement to it.
Scott: You rage vibed.
Peter: And I rage vibed. I rage coded, and mine works better now. It’s actually faster than Alt-Tab.
Scott: Oh.
Peter: It doesn’t do as much.
Scott: It is very good.
Peter: Right? It-
Scott: It is very good.
Peter: Yeah. It doesn’t do as much, but it never intended to. I just… My use case was really simple, right? The default in macOS is Command and Tab moves you from whatever… It basically moves you through… gives you the option to move through all of the active application windows. What Alt-Tab did was give me the option, and I chose Option. If I click Option-Tab, it will move through the active windows of the active application. Sorry. It’ll move through the windows of the application. So for instance, multiple Chrome windows open, you could do Option-Tab, and that will go and move through browser to browser. So, so Command-Tab right now as it stands, CmdTab, uh, it does one thing. It makes it so that when you hit Option-Tab, you cycle through the windows of the active application.
Scott: Well, you say-
Peter: And that’s all it does
Scott: … Oh, that’s right. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yep. You’re right.
Peter: And that’s all, that’s all it does right now, right?
Scott: You’re absolutely right.
Peter: So that’s it. So yeah. So, I find that is hilariously functional for me. So… But I’ll probably gonna sell that for, like, a, a couple of bucks. Um, I also made one called Mute, which I think I’m gonna actually call it FnMute, which you can pronounce F and Mute. This is a replacement for the app called Shush, which I bought in the App Store, and I keep getting notifications saying support for Intel-based Mac software is going away, and I got sick of seeing that every time I booted my machine and Shush would load. So I replaced it. So now I have FnMute, and, uh, the intention there is when you press the Fn key or another key if you choose something else, if you go away from the default Fn key, it will just mute. So it’s like push to talk or push to silence. So it’s the cough button. And, uh, those are a few of the commercial software that I will be putting up on Scratch Itch Software real soon now. I’m also making some Foundry Virtual Tabletop modules-
Scott: Ooh
Peter: … to enhance gameplay in Savage Worlds on, uh, Foundry. So I’m really-
Scott: Are you gonna sell those-
Peter: … excited about those
Scott: … to people that like to enhance their gameplay?
Peter: I’m trying to decide ’cause it seems like most of the for-sale stuff on Foundry isn’t add-on modules that change behavior or enhance performance. It seems like people are only charging money mostly for maps and other content. So, like, porting books into Foundry, so instead of having the PDF or a physical copy, you can access all of the rules and everything in there, or layouts and maps and things like that, or tokens, you know, like little figurines and things. Um, I don’t see people charging for a lot of this stuff. So I might just put those up there and just leave them as, you know, like, evidence of, you know, like, cred, street cred. Look, you know, I can do other cool things, right? And, you know, scratch an itch somewhere and see what happens, so.
Scott: So the gamers are not at all like rich CEO biohackers because those people are paying millions of dollars for things that will enhance performance and change behavior. ([laughs]) Oh.
Peter: Okay. ([laughs])
Scott: By the way, I wanna tell you, I forked your Command Tab or whatever you call it. What is it called?
Peter: Does Anna know?
Scott: I forked your Canta- Command Tab app, and I-
Peter: Wow, you said… You admitted it twice. Okay.
Scott: And I put some of the features in that Alt Tab has, which is namely the, the screenshot view-
Peter: Mm-hmm
Scott: … like the picture view of the different windows, and so I can do either. And right now I have it in the vertical list view, so it just shows the icon. But if you just kind of hover on that for a second, it shows you the pictures of all the windows that are available for that app, and you can just arrow over and choose which one of those you wanna open. But-
Peter: Cool
Scott: … I gotta s- yeah. The performance is so much better than Alt Tab. Y- the basic app that you had is so performant. It’s so great. I have just been loving that. The fact that you developed that makes me happy every day because I’m using that app even though-
Peter: Woo-hoo. Well-
Scott: … I made, made some changes to it. I’m your first-
Peter: Dear-
Scott: … testimonial, Peter.
Peter: Dear listeners, um, I haven’t figured out how to do this yet, but I assume it’s possible for me to make coupon codes. I’ll be s- distributing these, uh, programs via Lemon Squeezy. That’s the, uh, the marketplace. They’re gonna handle-
Scott: Okay. You just-
Peter: … all of the tax calculations
Scott: … you just made fun of me for saying forked, and now you’re going around talking about Lemon Squeezy.
Peter: I didn’t name it, and I didn’t do it, so.
Scott: But you did use it.
Peter: Um, ([laughs]) so, uh, I’m gonna be distributing via Lemon Squeezy because they handle the sales tax, the VATs, the, you know, country things. They’re the merchant of record-
Scott: Mm-hmm
Peter: … for all that kind of crap, which is great. I’m assuming they have a facility for me to put a discount code into it. So what I’m saying, dear listener, if you are interested in any of the software that I have mentioned that’s gonna be on Scratch Itch Software, whether it’s AcrossKM or CmdTab, FnMute, or any of these Foundry modules, drop us a line. Scott will tell us how to… how you… tell you how to contact us.
Scott: I have no idea.
Peter: But if you contact me and just ask for a discount code, I promise you when I figure out how to make one, you will be the first to get it.
Scott: He will ask… Well, actually, when Claude figures out how to make one, ([laughs]) he will be first to get one.
Peter: Darn right.
Scott: So if you wanna have Peter squeeze your lemon for cheap, let him know. ([laughs]) And there goes Peter’s fake beer.
Peter: Ah.
Scott: His beer product.
Peter: Yep. I am done with my beer. Okay.
Scott: Yeah. I-
Peter: So-
Scott: Um, I’m gonna miss Fable when it’s gone. I’ve been having a lot of fun just doing this and then work-related stuff where it’s just… It still takes time. It still talks too much. It still overanalyzes stuff. Sometimes I wish these LLMs would quit trying to be engineers and just be more of a technician. Here’s what I want to achieve. I don’t give a s*** about the philosophy. And they always are like, “But here’s what I honestly wanna flag about this.” And I’m like, “I don’t care.” Like, you’re bringing up stuff. You’re acting like this is an emergency, and it’s just not. Um, they do that too much. But the ability of Fable to just look at something and analyze what’s going on is really freaking good.
Peter: Mm-hmm.
Scott: Such a huge step over Opus.
Peter: Yep. I, I totally agree. It’s, it’s night and day. I’m really curious, you know, to see, like, how the latest ChatGPT for coding compares to it.
Scott: Mm.
Peter: And frankly, if, you know, if it’s supposed to be on par with Opus and I… Or with, um, Fable and I can’t use Fable anymore, I might have to go take a look at it.
Scott: Well-
Peter: But-
Scott: I’ve seen a few different people that we would follow and trust say that it’s not quite the same, that Fable still feels like a bigger bottle to them.
Peter: Mm.
Scott: Bigger in the terms of its knowledge and its capability for doing some of these things, but those are way closer than Opus is.
Peter: Yeah.
Scott: So if we get the rug pulled out from under us, yeah, I may… As much as I don’t like OpenAI and as much as I feel the same nausea in my stomach-
Peter: Mm
Scott: … to, to use OpenAI as I do to use X-
Peter: Yep
Scott: … uh, yeah, it may, it may happen. Now, Theo, I think, put out a video in which he made himself ill by proving that GPT 5.6 was better in the Claude Code harness than it was the way that OpenAI wants you to use it. So there is possibilities for something like that. You can, you can modify. You can set up your Claude Code to use different models and, um… Anyway, that’s an option so that you could still have your familiar Claude Code harness. You could still have all your rules and stuff in place, but then you could get the benefit of a better model if for some reason we’re not able to use Fable for a while.
Peter: Right. Yep. Yeah, and I don’t, I don’t think I have a ton invested in Claude Code. You know? I have been… Like, I’ve f- tweaked a couple of things here and there, and I have Claude.md files, and I have a status bar configured. But other than that, there’s not a lot holding me to it, right? So most of my stuff, I should be able to just say, “Hey, ChatGPT, pick up and, you know, pick up development where we left off on this.”
Scott: I’ve got a lot of MCP… Not… I try to use as few MCP servers as possible, ’cause they have a lot of overhead, but I have some command line stuff. I have some skills. I have some other things where I’d have to say, “Okay, transfer this over,” unless I was using it within Claude Code. So I pro- if I was gonna do that, I probably actually right now would look at… The, the only thing that it would come down to is using the app itself. Like, aside from the terminal stuff, I would have to use the, uh, Codex app, which has gotten really weird right now, and a lot of people are complaining about what OpenAI did to it, ’cause they made it even more confusing than ever before.
Peter: Apparently Codex is now the ChatGPT app. It’s all-
Scott: Yeah, and people can’t get just a… Popping up a GP- a ChatGPT app normally is just, like, a side window, and they’re-
Peter: Mm-hmm
Scott: … all their chats are… I don’t know. People are unhappy.
Peter: Yep.
Scott: Anyway.
Peter: Well, speaking of unhappy, I have a little, um-
Scott: Yes
Peter: … Yorkschnoodle.
Scott: Oh.
Peter: A Yorkie-Schnauzer-Poodle mix who wants to go out. So, um-
Scott: Okay
Peter: … I have a feeling if I drag this out any longer, he’s gonna be unhappy, and then I will have to be-
Scott: You will be unhappy
Peter: … I will be unhappy.
Scott: And your cow-
Peter: Exactly
Scott: … will be unhappy.
Peter: Exactly. So we should wrap this up.
Scott: Okay.
Peter: So, uh, tell us, uh, in addition to scratchitchsoftware.com, where can they find us and our work, or at least my work? ([laughs])
Scott: By the way, okay, so that site may or may not be live by the time this comes out. It depends, but I’ve got it kind of working.
Peter: Coming soon.
Scott: But I need to-
Peter: Coming soon.
Scott: I need to talk to you about how it works, ’cause… Anyway, we’ll talk about all that later. Uh, yeah, so that will be a thing soon. friendswithbrews.com is the website where you can get the audio edition of this podcast as well as links to the YouTube version. We have a Friends with Brews YouTube channel, which is linked to on friendswithbrews.com. And we have show notes. We have transcripts. We have blah, blah, blah, especially the blah, blah, blah. And don’t forget-
Peter: Tell your friends.
Scott: And, uh, yeah, any complaints should be directed towards Peter. Any praise should be directed towards Claude, I guess, based on this episode. And, uh, anyway, yeah. There’s a… Here’s the thing. I just wanna say in summary regarding this vibe coding thing, first of all, you and I know enough that we’re able to direct… It helps if you have an idea, you have a plan, you know how something should work, and then you can get really good results from these things. But when I hear the guys on the Verge saying, “Oh, I… You could… I just don’t know what I…” I just don’t understand why they don’t know. They can’t figure out what they wanna use it for. And it’s like I have never had so many things, so many utilities, so many tools that I have wanted to build that now I can do and that I’m constantly coming up with new ideas for something because it’s so easy. There is no barrier to entry anymore. Just to build me a tool for myself to do this-
Peter: Mm-hmm
Scott: … and that kind of thing is amazing. You don’t have to write software that’s gonna support an enterprise. You don’t have to write even necessarily software that you’re gonna support for other people if you don’t want to. But for tools for yourself, it’s an incredible- You know, and I, aside from all the other shouting about AI, aside from all the downsides, I’m just talking about this one aspect. This is a real legitimate aspect that, you know, I don’t understand why people, why so many people are like, “I don’t know what to do.” It’s like-
Peter: Yeah, well, I-
Scott: To me, that’s like a teenager being bored all the time. It’s the same-
Peter: I didn’t, I didn’t know what to do until I felt the itch, right? And when stuff started breaking, like for me, it was ShareMouse-
Scott: Yeah
Peter: … which was my previous keyboard-mouse sharing thing, breaking on me for the, I don’t know how manyth time, but I just got sick of it, and I had opened up a support ticket with the developer, and it was the standard, “Here’s your standard troubleshooting list,” which you’ve already tried half a dozen times, and it never fixes. And the program just … I’ve used it for years, and without fail, it’ll work, and then for a… Like, suddenly, some months down the road, it just stops working. Nothing changes on my part, right? It’s not my antivirus. It’s not my networking. It’s not a new computer. It just stops working, and the developer’s completely helpless. Can’t, can’t make it work. And I just said, “Screw this. I’m making my own,” and there you go. That’s what happened. So I needed a use case, and then so when the stuff that I rely on starts breaking, I now feel empowered to start fixing that, so.
Scott: Yeah, but I would submit to you, and this happened to me also, I think that when you started doing that and you saw how well it worked, and then especially as more capable models came along, you just started coming with more other ideas.
Peter: Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Well, the, the whole thing with Foundry modules and stuff came to me ’cause we were there and we were doing this particular element of the game called a dramatic task, and I have my way of h- of tracking the progress of the task, and my friend Jamie has his way of doing it, and I realized that there’s no built-in way to do this. And within an hour, I had a built-in way to do that with Claude.
Scott: Yeah.
Peter: And I was like, “That’s awesome.” And then I was like, “There’s no tracker for mass battles either. Let’s make one. And there’s no trackers for chases. Let’s make one.” And so now I have all of those. And so those are the, you know… Spoiler alert, that’s the Foundry modules and stuff.
Scott: Yeah, and that’s the kind of thing that’s so cool is because it’s low stakes, but it dramatically enhances your ([laughs]) experience of things that you enjoy doing.
Peter: Totally, and you know, my players, I have an immediate group of beta testers every Sunday night.
Scott: Mm-hmm.
Peter: Right? So I was like, “Here, let’s try it.” They’re like, “Oh.” ([laughs]) You know, so it’s, it’s pretty-
Scott: But are they sober beta testers?
Peter: Most of them are, yeah. Yeah. ([laughs])
Scott: All right.
Peter: We actually have a rule as of a couple of years ago that, um, where I ask people who are playing not to have more than one drink because one guy, you know, was getting a little saucy and, uh, uh, when it came to each of us telling each other to f*** off in the middle of the game, I said, “You know what? This is not right, dude.” And he’s like-
Scott: ([laughs])
Peter: … “I’m not gonna have more than one glass of whiskey when we’re having a game.” I was like, “Thank you very much. I appreciate that.”
Scott: Oh.
Peter: So.
Scott: Okay. All right. Well, that’s it for this episode. We appreciate your patience. We appreciate you watching. By the way, Claude Code will be editing this episode for me and, and that’s one thing I meant to say to you, Peter, is because Claude will be editing, we need to be especially careful because I’m sure there’s some stuff that… I have hints and tips for it, and I have some things that I want it to do, but I’m sure there’ll be things it misses, but oh my God, what a time-saver having this video editing workflow set up. It’s great. Everything I’ve published-
Peter: It’s-
Scott: … to our YouTube channel’s been edited by Claude.
Peter: This should be interesting.
Scott: Yep, so. All right. Remember, tell your friends.