I gave Claude Code a brand-new Windows PC. Five things went wrong before it wrote a line.

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AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed.
Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.
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  1. buildwithaihub

    The settings file and the guard script are free, plain text, and short. Read them before you use them: https://lgcreativestudios.github.io/buildwithaihub/#free (or straight from GitHub: https://github.com/lgcreativestudios/buildwithaihub/tree/main/book/windows-setup).

  2. AppSignal

    AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.

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