Dave and Pete Kaminski — April 15, 2026
Date: April 15, 2026
Duration: ~3 hours 23 minutes
Recording: Zoom
Participants: Dave Kaminski and Pete Kaminski
Two brothers catch up over an epic 3.5-hour Zoom call about AI, Claude Code, and how to get stuff done with it. Dave has been going hard — five straight days of coding with Claude, $300 burned, and a wild ride of breakthroughs and frustrations. Pete teaches a course called Agentic AI with Pete and has a much more structured approach. The call is half storytelling, half show-and-tell, and ends with Pete live-demoing how to set up projects in Obsidian with Claude Code so Dave can stop crashing the train.
YouTube video: (unlisted) David Kaminski and Peter Kaminski, 2026-04-15 -- Claude Code
Transcript: David Kaminski and Peter Kaminski, 2026-04-15, Audio Transcript
Major Conversation Threads
- Putting Claude on Rails — Pete's core methodology: write a project plan before doing any work
- Dave's Claude Struggles — Five days of coding, $300 spent, stop signs blown, files overwritten
- The Polite Email Incident — Dave's AI-influenced writing style sparks an accusation
- Inference and Token Economics — How LLM conversations actually work under the hood
- The Agent Economy — Brothers agree: agents are the new software industry
- Obsidian as a Tool Ecosystem — Pete demos wikis, links, DataView, and Claude in the sidebar
- Structured Data vs Structured Interactions — The key insight: structure how you work, not just the data
- Git as Version Control — Why Dave needs snapshots after Claude overwrote his own code
Quick Links
- Conversation Flow — How the call unfolded, topic by topic
- Concept Index — All pages organized by type
- Alphabetical Index — A-Z list of every page
- Dave Kaminski / Pete Kaminski — What each brother brought to the call