your next interviewer is going to ask about your ai portfolio

it's been a rough week. a lot going on. i look forward to sharing more about it soon.

for now, i wanted to take a break from the usual and talk about some personal stuff i've been building in claude code.

i know there are a lot of people who keep AI out of their personal life as a kind of boundary. they'll use it at work, but not at home. no crutches on the personal stuff. i get it.

but i'll tell you, you'll adopt and grow with this stuff so much faster if you bring it into your personal life too. i want to show you how i've been using it.

i'm into film photography. i'm 3D printing an at-home negative scanner, a jig for my digital camera so i can photograph film negatives. once i take the pictures, i upload them and a tool automatically crops them, inverts them, and color corrects them with AI. all on my local PC.

i'm doing it on-prem because i don't want to upload pictures of my kids and my family into some model. that felt important to get right.

i have six agents for studying scripture. each one analyzes the same passage through a different lens, original greek, hebrew, and aramaic. historical and cultural context. cross-references across the whole bible. personal application. family application.

when i give it a passage, all six run in parallel. then there's a seventh that takes all of their outputs and compiles them into a single document.

the part i keep coming back to: i control exactly what these agents believe. i wrote their instructions. so i know the output is coming from the perspective i believe is actually in line with scripture. that's a different thing than just asking a chatbot a question about the
bible.

this runs locally on my PC with a whisper model. it transcribes and diarizes, it knows who said what. it transcribes in real time too, so i can query the conversation while still on the call. at the end it looks through the transcript and decides what folder it belongs in based
on the content.

because everything is stored in sqlite, it's extremely searchable.

claude code locally tracks the transcripts from every conversation you have with it. by default they're not very searchable. i saw someone on linkedin suggest piping that data into a sqlite database periodically, so i built a skill that does exactly that.

now whenever claude asks me something it should already know, i just say "remember", it searches the transcripts for the relevant context and finds what it needs. really useful when context runs out and it starts asking questions it already had the answers to.

i put in everything i've seen and give it ratings. it builds a taste profile, the more i rate, the more it understands what i actually like versus what i think i like.

when i want to watch something, i can ask by mood, genre, or vibe. wildcards. something similar to a show i already love. something worth revisiting. it knows my full history.

it acts like a pandora for tv and movies, except it actually knows me.

an agent interviews me section by section. i give it specific copy, it drafts, puts it all together, and formats it. you're reading the output right now.

just by spending a little time thinking about what you can build, the skills compound.

six to twelve months from now, interviewers are going to ask you about your claude code portfolio in a job interview. start building it now.

army ants are completely blind. they navigate complex terrain using vibrations sensed through the pads of their feet. they have never seen a single step they've taken.

wrote this with claude code. created an agent interviews me, i give it specific copy, it drafts everything and puts it all together.

if you want to know more about what i'm using it for, personal or work, feel free to dm me. happy to talk through it.

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