Shrikar Archak

@shrikar84

I build practical AI products in public and share the code, failures, numbers, and distribution lessons.

San Francisco, CA

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Joined February 2010

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Shrikar Archak
@shrikar84
Sep 25
I've avoided the Apple Shortcuts editor for years. Today I built 3 working shortcuts without dragging a single block. Claude Code wrote them as code, signed them, and imported them into my iPhone. Here's exactly how 👇
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The Apple Shortcuts Editor Is Scary as Hell. So I Let Claude Code (Opus 5.5) Build Mine.
How I turned a daily TikTok and Instagram posting chore into three taps, without building a single block by hand. Let's be honest: the Shortcuts editor is scary as hell. Tiny blue variable bubbles.
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Shrikar Archak
@shrikar84
Oct 15
Most software I've built assumes a human is sitting there clicking through it. Building agent workflows changed that for me. Last week I gave an agent a goal and it worked through 14 steps across 3 tools while I made coffee. For 40 years we drove every mile ourselves. Now the
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Shrikar Archak
@shrikar84
Oct 15
AI can turn website search into a classification system. A Chrome extension can read pages and label them by criteria hidden from normal filters: relevance, evidence quality, or fit against acceptance criteria. The hard part is the eval. Every label needs evidence and a stop
Shrikar Archak
@shrikar84
Oct 14
Most of my AI coding headaches went away once I let the agent check its own work. I wired Claude Code to run the tests, load the Chrome extension, and screenshot the result. Failed runs I used to babysit now fix themselves before I ever see them. Roughly 3 out of 4 of my "why
Shrikar Archak
@shrikar84
Oct 14
Most people use Claude Code like a search engine. I just watched a 30-minute Anthropic workshop on running 100+ agents in continuous loops, with PM agents and a chief agent coordinating the rest. The part I'm taking back to my own builds is the cost control. Agent swarms get
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