My Tony Stark moment

A few days ago, I realized I’d been posting on my blog every day for six months.

My initial plan? One month. But momentum carried me forward, even through a four-day hospital stay.

The blog lives on Cloudflare, but today I hit a snag. My posts weren’t stored with my other notes. I couldn’t cross-reference them in my notes tool.

My old approach would have been predictable: hunt for a tool that takes my RSS feed, creates a local version, and downloads referenced images. Maybe spend hours researching options. Maybe settle for something that almost works.

AI development tools changed this habit for me.

I opened my terminal. Created a folder. Fired up Claude Code with the somewhat scary claude --dangerously-skip-permissions and wrote:

“I have a blog with an RSS feed. I want to write a plugin for Obsidian where it downloads all posts and images, converts them to the correct format, and adds them to a specific folder.”

Then I went to brew coffee.

When I came back? A working plugin. Exactly what I wanted.

This is the Tony Stark and Jarvis feeling. I bring the ideas. The LLM handles execution. I test and confirm.

No wrestling with documentation. No Stack Overflow rabbit holes. No compromising on requirements because the existing tools don’t quite fit.

Just problem to solution in the time it takes coffee to brew.

Does it scale? No, not right now.

Does it need to scale? I don’t know.

Maybe scale isn’t about building massive systems anymore. Maybe it’s about having near-unlimited capability to solve your specific problems perfectly.

Like having a personal manufacturing line for software tools.

Each solution fits exactly because it’s built exactly for you.

p.s. you can download the plugin for Obsidian over at github.