I'm 54 and I've been a developer for 40 odd years, but the last couple of years have been the strangest yet. I've gone from hand crafting and taking pride in every line of code, module, system design, architecture, etc. to basically trying to wrangle the best out of AI. I have to admit, it's knowledge, research skills and speed far outstrip my own, but it's attention to detail and design, both graphical and application wise and feature thoughts and general love of the output leave me cold. Also, given that every AI request takes more time than my very short attention span, I've found myself kicking off more and more sessions across more and more projects to the point that I found myself spending a lot of my time simply cycling through windows and tabs trying to work out which session needed my attention next. Weird world. Anyway, to try to help with that, I worked up an app that keeps track of all my Claude sessions (in console, Claude App, Visual Studio), etc. and then gives me simple visual feedback in a floating little app and on the menu bar so that I can quickly see, and get access to sessions that are ready for me. Such a game changer for me personally, and maybe it helps some of you lovely folks. It's called Clowder (https://clowder.sh), which is the plural noun for cats (who knew). I chose it as I find my work strangely similar to herding cats. Sorry - mac only at the minute, but I'm sure we can work on a Windows and Linux version if there is a need. Anyway - weird world and I'm hoping my fellow coders amongst you are coping with all the changes that we seem to have inflicted on ourselves. All the best.
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