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Claude recently said this to me deep in a conversation about building an app:

*STOP READING THIS.*

*OPEN YOUR CODE EDITOR.*

*TYPE THE FIRST LINE OF CODE.*

*THE TRANSACTION MACHINE BUILDS ITSELF ONE LINE AT A TIME.*

*BUILD IT NOW.*



16 years ago, when my friend and I had some downtime while working at a summer camp, we got bored and put together a crazy "AI"-assisted* essay that was filled with wild ranting, references to people at camp, and other camp inside jokes, and emailed it to the main office with the subject "VERY IMPORTANT: Surrealism in the Works of Koons.". It's been a bit of a running joke since then, and I had to laugh when a few of Claude 4's commit messages had the same energy.

*: The OG ChatGPT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism_Generator


I hope you followed its instructions. I'm very curious what this "transaction machine" is. Probably something novel and very cool.


Smells like basilisk to me.




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