AI × Tools & Tips

Meetings · № 001

Jun 25, 2026 — kickoff: the AI Development sync

~34 min · Zoom · Chris, Shawn, John, Eddie, Brendan, JP, Maddy, Sam, Nick

Tools in play

How people are working

Chris

Terminal-native, several agents in parallel. Built a personal project launcher (searchable repo homepage → opens a terminal with Claude pre-loaded). Exploring adversarial AI review and browser MCP. Tunes a global CLAUDE.md that forces terse output, and runs a nightly cron logging Claude insights.

John

VS Code + Claude. Pastes customer/support messages straight in → task list → execution, one long-running chat per project. Uses it for unit tests and sweeping the codebase for repeated bug patterns. Wants a standard set of review prompts for every project.

Brendan

Demoed Warp: project-aware agentic terminal, tabs per project, one-click commit, command auto-suggest, plain-English commands.

Eddie (most automated)

Claude Code in PHP Storm, max effort. "I don't code anymore." He plans, then throws it to GSD. Chrome DevTools MCP for testing/perf. Parallel project clones with separate DBs. Slash-command integrations (/Monday, /Asana, /explain). Production debugging via Vapor CLI + throwaway scripts. Email triage: Outlook checked 3×/day, Slack ping only for real email.

JP & Maddy

JP: near-identical workflow to John's, Codex and/or Claude, now full agent-driven. Maddy built the UTI app with GSD. Promising, but it needs heavy testing of what it gets wrong at first.

Sam (Blue Box)

Self-described "pretty anti-AI," and the source of the tmux/Zoxide recommendations. Blue Box is the main team not using AI yet. Follow up with Sam & Robert on where it could add value, starting with unit tests.

Business thread

Shawn: officialize how Creative2 bills for AI-assisted development. He wants a real, transparent model for clients rather than quiet use, and is open to a fun framing (treat the AI like an employee). Target: locked in by end of September, with a gradual client rollout.

Action items

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    Shawn — define and lock the AI-billing model (end of September, gradual rollout)

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    Team — document useful integrations & slash commands (/Monday, /Asana, /explain) so others can adopt them

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    John + team — standard review prompts for every project (docs, tests, security, performance, Composer audit)

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    Sam & Robert — where AI adds value on Blue Box; Chris to have Kyle share his DevOps AI workflow

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    Chris — shared team skills / global CLAUDE.md as a common starting point (this site is part of that)

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