They needed site and app blocks at set times that are hard to remove. They built their own, about 40% with Aider and the rest with Claude Code. It beats every commercial option they found.
Result Beats every commercial Linux blocker they tried
“It's been very effective and it's much better (for me) than any of the commercial solutions that I've found for Linux.”
Spotted: found in the wild. Details are as reported by the source above and have not been independently verified.
Needed something to keep them off certain sites and applications at certain times of day, with enforcement that’s hard to remove. Turned their ideas into a proper program, writing about 40% of it with Aider and the rest with Claude Code.
They use it daily. It’s been very effective and, for them, much better than any commercial option they found for Linux.
Build me a focus tool for [operating system] that blocks [sites and apps] during [times], with enforcement that's hard to bypass in the moment (for example, a delay before any change takes effect). Show me how it enforces each block, how to set schedules in a config file, and how I can safely uninstall it.
A starting prompt written by Agents in the Wild. Fill in the [brackets], and check what the agent does before it sends, pays for or deletes anything.