Ryan Peterman
@ryanlpeterman
Quit my job to build the podcast & ergonomic keyboard I wish existed • ex-software engineer @instagram, @meta • See what I'm building here ↓
Joined February 2017
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Trying to remove myself as a "meat proxy", recent fix made a huge difference
I noticed a pattern of me copying errors into Claude Code which it'd fix in one shot. Why not just have Claude listen directly for the errors if my only input was copy pasting text into Claude
Now I removed myself by having a headless instance that monitors system health + errors
If it can confidently fix the issue it does. If not, it emails me (rare)
It's basically a first-responder oncall. So much less noise and lower latency for simple fixes
Maybe obvious but thought it'd be helpful to share since I'm noticing more and more of these "meat proxy" optimizations as the models get more capable
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The latest models (e.g. Opus 5.5, GPT 6) have made a ton of my glue work obsolete
When I started my podcast, I used models to write GUIs for repetitive tasks like transcription, publishing, and basic video editing
Lately I realized I was just a "meat proxy"
The model could run the tools I had built by itself to carry out end-to-end workflows, so it didn't need me or any GUIs. So now I just build interfaces that let the model use the tools directly
Things are changing so quickly. One day, my podcast backend will reduce to a well-structured repo of data and desired outcomes
Outcomes documented in a mix of software and English
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