If you can give merchants something that costs them only 0.1% in interchange fees, you can be pretty certain they’d jump on it.

If you build it on IBAN it already works everywhere.

Ironically, using LLM’s for React is an exercise in pain, because they’re all trained on the lowest common denominator. So even Opus is constantly fighting stupid reactivity bugs.

Ok, I’ll grant you that if they can get agents to somehow connect to other’s reasoning in realtime that would be useful. Right now it’s me that has to play reasoning container.

I have CURRENT_TASK.md that does more or less the same thing. It also gets committed to git. So I guess that’s entire? Wish I’d realized I was sitting on a 60M idea…

Claude Code captures this locally, not in version control alongside commits.

I wonder how difficult it would be for Claude Code to have such a feature in a future release.

I think on mobile it’s natural to walk to the guy and tap on him. Not helped by the fact that the screen shows ‘tap’ over the highlighted tile, which does nothing. You need to walk and position the guy under your cursor, then press ‘act’.

The position yourself, then long press on ‘act’ to build when you can’t see where to put the building anymore is pretty awkward too. I’d expect to click to build, position it, then press confirm or reject or something.

Spoilers! But yeah, that was a memorable scene.

With old obscure books like this spoilers can be strategic to entice people to actually read them.

Surely all the engineers that existed 20 years ago haven’t simply retired? At the time if you told someone you couldn’t set up your own server they’d ask you what kind of engineer you are then?

> Surely all the engineers that existed 20 years ago haven’t simply retired?

20 years ago we had 5 times fewer engineers. And most of those have moved into management, other fields, retired, work calm jobs for the government or boring companies, etc.

How many 40+ year old engineers do you see, especially when compared to 20-30 year old engineers?

I don’t think it’s necessarily safer or better for anything but your job security.

IMHO it sounds more like someone who is proud of solving a problem for very little effort that Google tried to sell a very expensive solution for.

Thank you, that's exactly what I was trying to convey

Hey, really sorry, I'm genuinely not trying to sell anything (I don't have a product to sell...yet). I can see why you might have interpreted like that though. And it's unfortunately too late to edit my comment. I'll try to think less sales-y next time.

I think you need to calibrate your perception of things you read.