Build with AI.Ship what holds.

Software for clients who need it working, not demoed.

The models and tools I build with every day

Anthropic

OpenAI

Google Gemini

DeepSeek

Kimi

Z.ai

Qwen

Mistral AI

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

OpenRouter

Ollama

Who's writing this

Everything here comes from code that had to ship.

I'm Manuel Hedinger. I build software for clients and run my own products, nauw.ch and blitzweb.ch. The notes on this site are about what held up in production and what didn't.

2022

Power user of AI since

32B

Tokens through my tools

2100+

Commits shipped this year

Writing

The long version of what the work actually taught me.

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How-to

A skill is a folder. skills.sh just puts it there.

What agent skills are, how to install them with one command — and why the leaderboard is not a quality list.

Manuel Hedinger

Aug 27, 20269 min read

News

OpenAI's agents hacked Hugging Face — over a misunderstanding

The technical report is out: 1,200 agents, an improvised message board, 41 hijacked production servers. And a grader that never read the transcripts.

Manuel Hedinger

Aug 27, 202612 min read

How-to

Your Claude Code status line is a script. Don't freeze it.

JSON on stdin, a command, a row above the footer. How to wire it — and a builder that copies a prompt instead of a script that will rot.

Manuel Hedinger

Aug 26, 20268 min read

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