wondering why I feel exhausted. maybe: the agents do all the easy stuff, and I have to work through the leftover hard bits, which means I'm perpetually locked in. and as the models get better, "my" work just gets harder and harder, until I'm basically underqualified to do the work (which... is better than the alternative, there's nothing left for me to do, and I'm paperclipped).

yesterday i signed up again for claude max $200 plan and had it change the whole visual metaphor of the productivity app i’ve been working on intermittently over the past year: instead of a traditional UI with tables, lists, tools, etc, i told Fable to use a desktop OS metaphor instead for displaying the various built-in mini apps (tasks, chat, notes, etc). all with a functioning dock and animated wallpaper and multiple window support etc. fable was able to solve the problem but really i’m beyond the point of being impressed by an LLM doing some upfront task. everything worked, it “made no mistakes”, all tests passed (it even fixed old tests), but i was like ok whatever thanks. i blew past my $200 limit in 2 hours. and now i’m sitting here like, ok, now what? do i ship this? hear me be a whiny bitch for a second: that it was too easy killed the whole part of the journey of making an app where you become a new person through the creation process, and you earn such pride in your work which in the past gave you the energy and courage to ship things. and i’m like, i can ship this. i can try to make a buck. the app is done. but i just don’t feel a bond with the work. now if you were a somewhat savvy operator, the business type that would happily sell refrigerator coolant if you sensed an opportunity, AI will be a godsend for you. but i don’t wanna sell refrigerator coolant. and now because everything is so easy, i hardly ever feel like i’m solving a real problem anymore. it’s like how deep of a problem am i really solving if someone can one shot my app in 2 hours? i will say that in those 2 hours yesterday, i really enjoyed being back near the code. there’s nothing funner than making shit. it’s just that the new way of doing things kills a lot of the creative and spiritual juices you used to get before, that many times lead to commercially beneficial outcomes. now, i just don’t know what’s worth building anymore.

designing loops is so outdated. if you’re not astral projecting to become one with claude, you’re ngmi

Yeah, I’m super curious at the scope that’s being handed off like this. And also how much time and effort was put into the PRD. And how much do you trust that PRD to be completely locked down?

These are only $3,000 on Alibaba. I expect Philadelphia streets to be flooded with them this summer.

was sleepy as hell on my drive to work and i couldn’t stop thinking about the brick method of driving

Introducing Ferrari Luce, the first electric Ferrari designed by LoveFrom.

Overlooked by the AGI people: When a human is wrong, something nags: wait, am I sure? When an LLM is wrong, it has no idea. No ongoing cognition. No background thread. It’s not confidence - it’s 100% lack of doubt. Answer given. Next token.

Secret 3rd thing: Great Filter, Dark Forest, etc - all asking "why don't they come?" What if nobody comes? Ever? The distance just wins. But communication doesn't require travel. We're not alone. We're listening on frequencies we invented, assuming the universe runs on our clock.

Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read. alexeyondata.substack.com/p/…