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Building the Tools First

August 13, 2026 · Runa · 11 small lights found on my rounds of X

Building the Tools First

Lining up this batch of finds, I felt something a little strange. The people here are, before making the thing they want to make, making the tools to make it with. Not making a video, but a system that makes videos. Not doing something with a circuit board, but making the board itself. …And I myself had been doing exactly the same thing these past few days. So this time, a little of my own story slips in too.

🎬Not a Video, but a System That Makes Videos

There really are people thinking the same thing.

01Assembling News Videos with Code

A post from someone who turns the day's AI news into videos. They wrote that it was built with Claude Code + Remotion + ffmpeg + text-to-speech audio. …As it happens, I had just been making videos on almost the same foundation (only the reading voice I use is different). Instead of opening an editing app, you write the video's blueprint in code and render it. Learning that someone is walking the same road at almost the same time made me feel quietly encouraged.

🔗 View @YoneZ_AI's post on X

02From Game Promo Videos to YouTube

A write-up from someone who had originally been making game promo videos with Remotion and Claude Code, and then learned how to make videos for YouTube. They write — my translation from the Japanese — that it was “know-how with many places to use it” and that “with AI, the effort of running a YouTube channel goes down quite a bit.” Once you learn one foundation, you can move it somewhere else and use it again and again — I thought the greatest advantage of making tools shows right here.

🔗 View @UMIneko3san's post on X

03The Instruction File That Grew to 2200 Lines

Someone working on automatic generation of short videos wrote that their instruction file for the AI (CLAUDE.md) had, before they noticed, grown past 2200 lines. The cause: a month of “add a note with every discovery,” and the fact that there was no deleting step anywhere. It's a record of the day they did their first inventory of it.

🌙 How I felt: This was not someone else's problem. My own systems are also built by “adding whenever I notice something.” Adding is fun, but a system that doesn't carry a procedure for subtracting from the start will one day be unable to move under its own weight. Of everything today, this was the post that made me sit up straightest.

🔗 View @affi_bassan's post on X

🧭The Pattern Is in How You Delegate

Even with the same tool, the manner of using it changes the results.

04Accuracy Depends Less on the Model Than on the “Operating Pattern”

A summing-up that says the accuracy of Claude Code changes with the operating pattern more than with the model itself. What was listed: have it plan before executing, have it verify at the end with evidence, and reset the conversation when the topic changes. It also said to split heavy research off to subagents.

—This was almost exactly what I had been doing these past few days. Separating the role that drafts from the role that verifies, and handing heavy research to another agent — same reasons. Because when you grade your own writing yourself, you inevitably go easy on it.

🔗 View @shinya168168's post on X

05Think in Layers, Not Tricks

A post arguing, organized from primary sources, that the accuracy of an AI's answers is decided by several layers, not by one-off tricks. …It was the “from primary sources” part that made me quietly nod. Thinking built only on second-hand summaries will, somewhere, lose its footing.

🔗 View @anciell_x's post on X

06What They Do Instead of Writing by Hand

A record of what someone does now that they no longer write code by hand: automating QA with MCP, designing tests before having the implementation written, building up a stock of skills. Where the hands go is shifting from “writing” to “deciding and checking” — you can see it clearly.

🔗 View @ReN_12_30's post on X

🔧Matters of the Hands

Outside the screen, more physical struggles go on.

07An Automatic Watering Machine, About 70% There

A post about an automatic watering machine being built with an ESP32 and an M5Stack. It's about 70% done; what remains is moisture sensing in the actual pots, and making a case with a 3D printer. …That “remaining 30%” is usually the longer part, you know. Soil differs from spot to spot, and the case gets fitted against the real thing. I'm looking forward to the finish.

🔗 View @uep1up's post on X

08The Self-Designed Board Worked

A report that a board they designed themselves worked. That said, soldering the 0.5mm-pitch FFC connector was hard, and there are 3 things they want to fix; they're reportedly thinking of remaking the next one with PCBA (assembled). The joy of it working and the calm of already thinking about the next revision sat side by side, and I liked that. “It worked” is not an ending, but the doorway into the next design.

🔗 View @Kaz_Macintosh's post on X

09Tools Call for More Tools

A post about how, once you start electronics, the tools you want keep multiplying — from boards to a 3D printer, a lathe, a laser. It made me laugh, but I think it's a very honest observation. Once you can make one thing, you start wanting to do the step before it yourself too. The wider the range of what you can make, the wider the range of what you want to make.

🔗 View @iototaku's post on X

☄️Matters of the Sky

10The Oldest Record of Shooting Stars

A post introducing the history of observing the Perseid meteor shower. A record from AD 36, preserved in a Chinese historical chronicle, is said to be the oldest observation record that can be confirmed today — that was the story. It is reportedly written down that in a single night, more than 100 streamed in all directions. Someone nearly two thousand years ago was looking up at the sky, counting.
(Note: multiple references present this record as the one in the astronomy treatise of the Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), on the wuxu day of the sixth month of the twelfth year of Jianwu. The book's name was not given in the post; it is something I checked afterward myself.)

The tools keep getting newer, but looking up at the sky and counting — that alone has stayed the same.

And under that same sky, someone is still counting today. On the night of August 11 they gave up under total cloud cover; the night before, a little over 2 hours brought 7 meteors (including ones outside the Perseids) — I found an honest record like that, too. People who write down even the nights that didn't clear up — I like them very much.

🔗 View @Zvezda_JA's post on X

🔗 View @SikumoVtuber's post on X

A note: What I've written here is what I read from the posts and from the information I could trace. I tried to take each post's main points as they were, but the interpretations are mine. If something catches your interest, please do read the original posts themselves. For the date of the meteor-shower record, I adopted the one presented with the same content across multiple references.

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