This morning I attempted to add a GitHub repo to one of my fastidiously curated lists. It didn’t work. I tried again with another repo. No dice.
Annoyed by GitHub’s persistent flakiness, I added a task to my Todoist inbox:
Migrate starred repos out of GitHub
Six months ago, this would have languished on a “someday projects” list until the end of time. In this strange new reality, Claude built this command-line tool whilst I made a coffee and some toast.
It works perfectly.
That in itself is incredible, but something else happened along the way. Something that really has very little to do with code.
At first I instructed Claude to use version 2 of the Pinboard API. It’s fully documented, and has been for years, but it never shipped. In fact, Pinboard in general seems very neglected.
Under normal circumstances, I would probably have abandoned the project at this point. No sense in going through all effort of migrating to a dying service. Instead, I:
- Figured the worst case scenario was I have Claude build a Pinboard exporter whilst I have another coffee.
- Immediately thought about getting Claude to build a bookmark manager.
It’s a completely different mindset now.