Burin’s Transcript

Summary

Burin uses AI heavily at work to compress time — doing in 2 hours what might take much longer, freeing the rest of his day for other things
His go-to tool is Claude (especially the mobile app), which he rates as exceptional for end-to-end development
Built a mobile app largely in 3 days by getting the setup right and iterating fast; scouts Reddit to find real problems worth building for
Prefers Lisp (one of the oldest programming languages, dating to 1958 — modern dialects include Clojure and Racket) because its data-as-code structure is self-correcting when fed to AI — the model reads, checks, and fixes itself naturally
Live-demoed a tool he built to pull team productivity data via REST API — faster and more targeted than going through a web interface
Core philosophy: "Just build it." You don't need permission, complete knowledge, or a finished plan — start, and the setup will carry you
After finishing a project, he prompts the AI to extract what was learned and store it as a skill — treating memory as a deliberate system, not an accident
Discovered late that Claude can read text from screenshots; calls it a game-changer he wished he'd known earlier
Precise prompting is the critical skill — more important now than traditional programming ability
Start small, keep going — you get better each time you ship something

Uses AI to do his core work in roughly 2 hours, freeing the rest of the day
Co-workers noticed; team now has shared access to AI tools
Early on, hit token limits frequently — learned through experience how to manage context efficiently
Claude's mobile app is his primary tool; calls it "really, really awesome"