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Short thoughts, reactions, quotes, and things I noticed — stuff that didn't make it into a full blog post but felt worth keeping.

#6

Rick Rubin and Anthropic created a digital book of 81 Tao Te Ching-inspired meditations on vibe coding. Each section includes interactive code you can modify with natural language. Rubin wrote it by hand, studying Laozi translations - framing coding as intuitive creative expression rather than technical instruction.

Someone got the rare, never-released AA3000 Amiga prototype to play MP3s. The board had an AT&T DSP3210 chip the original A3000 lacked, providing just enough power for MPEG audio decoding at up to 96 kbps. A neat hack breathing new life into a scarce piece of computing history.

#4

Skills have become one of the most used extension points in Claude Code. They're flexible, easy to make, and simple to distribute. But this flexibility also makes it hard to know what works best. What type of skills are worth making? What's the secret to writing a good skill? When do you share them with others?

Race Into Space — the open-source version of Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space (based on the Liftoff! board game by Fritz Bronner). Originally published by Interplay in 1993, open-sourced in 2005, still actively maintained.

#3

A Delaware judge ruled that Krafton must reinstate Ted Gill as CEO of Unknown Worlds Entertainment (Subnautica) with full operational authority. The court found that Krafton's CEO used ChatGPT to devise a corporate takeover strategy — dubbed "Project X" — to avoid paying a $250M earnout bonus, ignoring his own legal team's warnings. The judge called Krafton's justifications for the firings "pretextual."

Don't frame LLMs as assistants (agents with goals). Frame them as amplifiers — predicting what you'd do with more time/resources. Simpler the counterfactual, safer the AI. The "helpful assistant" persona is actually the weirdest, least grounded point on the spectrum.