#491 Feeling Judged

Topics covered in this episode:

• Claude Code /insights
• Post-quantum crypto lands in Python
• MCP goes stateless — and FastMCP gets renamed
• inshellisense - IDE style command line auto complete
• Extras
• Joke

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Michael #1: Claude Code /insights

• Michael’s Insights: michael-kennedy-claude-code-insights-2026-08-09.html
• Be careful sharing these outputs, they include details references to your projects, errors, security findings, etc. ;)
• /insights reads your last 30 days of local session transcripts and hands back an interactive HTML report on how you actually work.
  • One command, zero setup: type /insights in a session, or run claude -p "/insights" from the shell for a non-interactive version that just prints the path
  • Reads what's already on disk: pulls session logs from ~/.claude/projects/, skipping agent sub-sessions and anything under 2 messages or 1 minute
  • Project areas: clusters your sessions into themes like "CLI Tooling" or "Documentation" with session counts
  • Friction analysis: categorizes where things went wrong by root cause - and quotes your own prompts back at you
  • Interaction style: tells you whether you're a delegator or a micromanager, plus which workflows are worth doubling down on
  • Actually actionable: suggests concrete CLAUDE.md additions and Claude Code features you're not using
  • The catch: Haiku does the per-session classification, so the first run takes several minutes; results cache to ~/.claude/usage-data/facets/ and the report lands at ~/.claude/usage-data/report.html

Calvin #2: Post-quantum crypto lands in Python

• pyca/cryptography 48 ships ML-KEM (key establishment) and ML-DSA (signatures) — NIST's post-quantum standards, now one pip install away.
• Big deal because it's the 11th most-downloaded package on PyPI (~