Communication is hard, but sometimes I can fix it.

We used to type code to tell the computer what to do. When that gets tedious, we made libraries and functions until the code was more communicative. Now I type English words to tell the agent what to tell the computer what to do. Sometimes that gets tedious, and then I need to find new ways to make it easier. Here’s an example. Iterating could be easier. The work: I’m getting Claude to build a program that turns Claude conversation logs into a vertical HTML comic. As we iterate on this, I ask it a lot of questions about the output. This way, I learn something about the problem domain (how Claude Code records conversations). And then I get it to tweak the output to my liking. In the example above, I wondered where the Background command "Start dev server on alternate ports" notification came from, so I asked Claude how I could know. To ask it, I had to cut and paste the text from the HTML, and then Claude had to grep the HTML to see what I was talking about, and also grep the JSONL to…