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Historically, I've been using Recordly and Finalcut to generate product videos for things. Some examples: https://matchcutfcp.aquaflamingolabs.com/

I'm building a couple of things:

1. Creating a MacOS native personal finance tracking + networth dashboard, inspired by Gnucash but no complex business stuff (e.g., Tax invoices)

2. Creating a vision / journey board that tracks your life milestones and displays them in a personal mandala / spiral :)

3. Trying to build an visual story telling tool that lets me convert my medium to long form essays into visual animated companions for youtube. e.g.,

Press 'ENTER' to Feel_ // A Techno Phenomenology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq5tlsX8uIM

Wasn't that what the first iterations of cursor were?

Out of curiosity, what real economic terms would you have to see to be convinced?

Do you mean more earnings per share for corporations or real utility impacts on social systems (e.g., more new drugs)

When I ask Claude about the AI ROI, it seems to cite that ~95% of AI PoC's are negative ROI but the 5% that do have ROI tend to have decent return -- my guess is mostly back office clean up to reduce expenses and increase revenue/profit.

IIRC Uber claim their 1.5k/mo budget lead to no new value creation.

FWIW, I look at the situation with similar skepticism. One argument you could make was what Marc Andreesen said with the hypothesis that "all the big companies get nuked", so no new valued gets created but the large market cap companies get eaten by thousands of little pirañas. Obviously, so far, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Ah yes, sloponomics.

I used to have a rolling product satire I called "Claude Handshake" which basically explained how cold-email is dead today as people feed email contents into Claude and Claude responds with a draft, that usually comes from another person doing the same thing.

The idea was to just avoid sending email altogether and just simulate the interaction entirely using Claude.

missed opportunity to do book.google :(

The other day I got into some pretty weird territory with Claude, trying to map out what an immortal ASCII cat would look like. Basically an autonomous Tamagotchi.

The idea was to create a quine that runs forever on something like Akash network with its own crypto treasury to support and pay it's bills and try to replicate. It would then talk to an LLM for support and actions on what to do to stay alive.

It got pretty out there. Stored some of the ideas here.

https://github.com/aquaflamingo/catfi

I'm trying to build a simple, local, and semantic code + context search for coding agents like Claude Code.

I noticed that when trying to work with Claude Code I burned my token allocation really quickly and with parallel agents, no better. But when I looked at the other repos things felt really complex, for me at least.

I call it "contextd" and imagine it kind of like a context daemon you can always query in your repository for implementation plans, specs or code, etc. I always liked that git lived in your repo in the .git file, so I wanted this to work like that too but without 3rd party hosted databases or multi-repo pollution.

It's written in python at the moment, uses some local models and lanceDB but I might have it re-written in rust for speed :)

https://github.com/aquaflamingo/ctxd

The freedom and optimism is always rooted to the communal and ritual release in dance, the freedom to be as you are, or dance as you are. This gets harder and harder when there is fear of "documentation', if one can't "dance right" or "doesn't fit in".

Don't beat yourself up too hard though, you can always pickup a DJ controller and start again :)

And too: the scene has radically shifted, so being a promoter is a large part of the work. It's kind of like eSports in a way.