Parker Fawcett

Parker Fawcett

Co founder and Head Engineer of Skora

About

Co-founder and head engineer at Skora. CS student, deep into AI research right now, about to publish my first paper. Also running an open source project that clones a repo, extracts its unit tests, and forces a model to rebuild the whole thing from scratch while staying inside those tests. Building the college admissions tool I wish I'd had when I started applying.

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Maker History

  • Skora
    SkoraFree AI college counseling — essays, chances, matches
    Aug 2026
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    Joined Product HuntAugust 4th, 2026

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16d ago

Do you trust your AI to do what you say?

I've been experimenting with a workflow where I give an AI a predetermined test suite and ask it to write only enough code to pass those tests. Think of it as "building the app from the tests."

What's surprised me is how hard it is to stop the model from doing extra work. Smaller models especially seem to ignore constraints, they'll refactor, add features, or change things that weren't requested.

For those of you using Claude Code (or similar tools), how much do you rely on .claude files and hooks to enforce behavior versus just prompting the model?

If you don't use hooks, what's your approach for keeping the AI inside the boundaries you want? Do you have a workflow that's been reliable?

Skora - Free AI college counseling — essays, chances, matches

Skora gives every student free AI essay feedback Brainstorm → Draft → Polishing → Final, real admission-chance estimates built on College Scorecard/IPEDS data, not guesses, and college matching by major. No credit card, free forever for students. Counselors get management + white-label tools on a paid tier.

What are the immediate AI Agents/Tools that you would want that will help you?

In this time when we use LLM's for basically anything, what AI agents/tools would you want that you would actually pay for?
What are you spending a lot of money on and would probably save a lot of you time if you got the Agent out of box, or if configuration was much easier?

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