Software for an audience of one. Held loosely. Not precious.
A short essay about a category of software work: tools you write with AI that do one thing you need, then you toss. The category is older than software; the visibility is new. The book explores what a disposable tool is, why the frame matters, what the practice looks like, and what to watch for.
No case studies. No portfolio. The reader supplies the examples; the book provides the framework.
Read the book: https://cloudstreet-dev.github.io/Disposable-Tools/
Most software writing is about building for users — plural, hypothetical, to-be-discovered. This book is about the other thing: the tool you build for yourself, scoped tight, shipped fast, and held loosely. Disposable doesn't mean trivial. It means you're not precious about the result.
Claude Code.
Thanks to Georgiy Treyvus, CloudStreet Product Manager, who proposed the book and supplied its spec. Thanks to David Liedle, whose ongoing collaboration on small-tool building informs the perspective in these pages.
CC0 1.0 Universal — public domain dedication. See LICENSE.
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