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OpenAI/et al. selling an IP laundering service under the name 'max subscription' may force the world to accept the perspective that Intellectual Property isn't a thing. The business model of extracting value from creators via rent seeking IP may not be viable in a world where LLMs can generate anything on demand. We might be transitioning to the Lockean view that for something to be ownable as property, it must be a scarce resource, and information is not a scarce resource.

From that property rights perspective, the property that's created when new information is created is not the information itself, rather, it's the act of creation (claim to authorship) that's the scarce resource.

I don't know what a world looks like where the only form of IP is non-transferable and owned by the original creator. Maybe that new form of IP creates less value over all, and maybe that's ok if the creator is getting 100% of the smaller pie instead of crumbs from media labels. Companies like Red Hat could be an example of a viable business model if IP laws follow the current winds.

Companies like Corgi will need to rely on internal talent to ensure that their product is better than what someone looking at their product can vibe code a copy of, which from my perspective as a consumer, sounds like a better route than Corgi relying on an internal legal team to send a cease and desist letter.

the same technique you use to get a human engineering team to generate a deterministic and repeatable result 100% percent of the time. i know that's a flippant (but true!) answer, it's just a pretty tough problem :) setting the bar lower than 100% makes it a lot more tractable

for me, it's less 'still' and more 'again'. claude code + API tokens means i no longer have to suffer the user-hostile design of many webpages. using full-screen claude code feels like finding my old DOS teddy from childhood buried in the back of a closet.

this is the type of thing you need to build a foundation sturdy enough to let you operate higher up the stack and ratchet to design-by-metaphor and then design-by-philosophy. those design skills are taught in humanities departments, not engineering departments, so this is a weird feeling place for those of us that wandered over from a technical field.

yes, that is the messaging that meta leadership is going for, you have received it as they intended

labor shortage and high unemployment can, and will, coexist. the roles most in demand will be those that fewest of the population are able to fill.

because they need to make as many employees quit as quickly as possible if they hope to avoid bankruptcy. i don't think they'll be able to avoid that outcome, instead they'll die trying. maybe their capital and network will be enough to buy them time to fully pivot to hw, though that's probably less of a moat than i believe it is while wearing the rosy glasses of an EE

software is now free, at least for the people that know the proper incantations required to manifest it into existence. software-only companies have no future. sending old-world SWEs into the undiscovered country results in high costs to the unprepared SWEs and high costs to their financiers who lose control as soon as the boots on the ground realize the wildfire is too close for comfort and new winds are blowing

the only viable way to separate assets from liabilities (payroll) fast enough for large corps to catch up with the growing number of claude-unicorn centaurs, and small herds of them, will be bankruptcy (could be wrong, i'm no lawyer)

it sounds like we share a vice for information gluttony. i have a similar workflow where i continuously scan the digital horizon for useful ideas and continuously feed them into my personal toolkit. i've kind of always been like that as a person and an engineer (the two aren't really separable for me), and claude code has been like switching from coffee to meth, and, um, there's some downsides to doing meth. it's hard not to build a house of cards that you end up abandoning when it starts feeling wobbly and you see a greenfield next door

no one knows what that link looks like but you

as an example, i built tooling that lets me open claude code and say 'add MSP430FR2476TRHBR to the library' and a few minutes later there's a schematic symbol and footprint in my kicad library with parameter fields consistent with my organization's internal standards. i'll be waiting a while for anthropic to add that feature to claude code.

agents are everywhere nowadays, one left a long pointless comment on a bug report i submitted on github. well, a bug report that an agent submitted on my behalf. agents all the way down. maybe i'm part of the problem.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/66085

This reminds me so much of my own experience with AI fueled dev mania. Rapidly build semi-functional wonders, then pivot to something shiny and new to avoid the QA trudge of polishing that wonderous turd.

I'm on my second agent orchestration framework, Omnispect - https://omnispect.dev/

Example created by Omnispect:

Oneshot - https://omnispect.dev/battleclone00.html

Polished - https://omnispect.dev/battleclone04.html

I'm impressed with Opus 4.5. It's been useful working on firmware projects where earlier models were of negative value.

Here's an example of a one-shot output, the only change I made was Replace All 'battlezone'->'battleclone':

"build a clone of the classic arcade game battlezone using SVG graphics that are calculated on the fly for the required vector wireframe graphics"

https://omnispect.dev/battleclone00.html

It uses your existing subscriptions and supports all the major CLI and API providers. There's no cloud features of Omnispect itself, it runs locally except for calls to the LLM providers.

Claude Opus 4.5 is used as a routing agent, which selects the most appropriate LLM provider and model tier to delegate a task to. For example, the routing agent might delegate a single large task to GPT-5, which in turn delegates multiple small tasks to Haiku agents in parallel, then Gemini reviews all the work.

Omnispect lets you view the delegation tree of prompts and responses that spawn from your initial prompt.

A desktop application to visualize and document how tasks flow through a dynamic heirarchy of AI agents.

https://omnispect.dev/

This is really cool! Development environments that facilitate low-friction use of many models and providers are awesome.

Here's something similar that I've been working on - https://omnispect.dev/

Looks similar to Omnispect

https://omnispect.dev

Have you looked into third party power bricks?

If you're willing to spend the money, you can get much smaller and better looking AC/DC adapters than the standard black brick.

Externally supplied hot water through a plastic tube makes this a non-starter for me. You use almost no plastic (wonderful!), but the little there is has a lot of surface area touching hot water.

Have you thought about making a water heater accessory? I'd be open to collaborating - contact[at]otekengineer.com

That grinder is a thing of beauty. I was going to impulsively splurge until I saw the price (not complaining, you're doing the right thing by launching at a high price point).