You're paying for a genius and using it like an intern.

We burn our own usage limits testing the Claude Code tricks Silicon Valley nerds are gatekeeping. You get the one keeper each morning, with the prompt ready to paste. Feel free to tell people you figured it out yourself.

Bolt, labeled you, with his feet on a desk, holding out an empty mug to a professor in a lab coat and gold medal, labeled the genius, who is carrying a tray of coffees and a stack of photocopies — **FIG. 1** · You and the genius, on a normal Tuesday.

This week's issues

What you'd have built this week

Each one came with the prompt, so the building was mostly pasting.

Bolt recoiling from a phone glowing purple

Sep 23

Adjectives don't work on Claude. Rules do.

Bolt buried under a waterfall of code printout

Sep 24

Change GitHub to GitDiagram in any repo URL and get a diagram of the entire codebase.

Bolt stranded on an island while a cruise ship sails past

Sep 25

Add Google's new preferred sources badge to your site and show up more in search.

Blindfolded Bolt throwing envelope darts everywhere but the board

Sep 26

If you use AI for sales outreach, you have no clue which emails are working.

Inside an issue

Two minutes to read, one prompt to paste

Every issue has the same four parts, so you always know where the prompt is.

The top of a Think Fast issue about GitDiagram: the headline, a cartoon of Bolt buried in code printouts, and the short version

A

B

Further down the same issue: four numbered steps and a Claude Code prompt to copy

C

D

A

What you'll be able to do

B

Bolt, having a worse day than you

C

Four steps

D

The prompt, already written

Fact-checks

We run it before you do

Because one bad command can wipe your laptop, and if something's getting rm -rf'd, it should be ours. Here's what we caught this week.

Bolt in a bomb-disposal suit, hiding behind a riot shield and poking a laptop with a very long stick

The claim

What we found

Verdict

“Google's badge makes you rank higher.”

It only helps with readers who click it, so we sent it with that caveat.

Partly true

“Comment APPLE for the link.”

It's github.com/emilkowalski/skills, and you don't have to comment.

Found it

“60 AI agents build your app.”

The installer leaves a program running in the background, so we skipped it.

Not sent

Bolt as a mail carrier hurdling a fence with one envelope held high