“European AI tax to pay creatives”

Love that idea.

I mean we already pay a tax when buying phones or storage because it's assumed we'll use it for piracy so why not.

"Hey Claude, can you help me create a strategy to optimize my token use so I don't run into limits so often?" --> worked for me! I had two $200 plans before and now I am cool despite all day use

How and when do you apply the strategy?

I've only had to do a major token optimization once. It reduced my memory, claude.md, mcps, etc... that's usually the big issue. but of course it gets dumber without the context of the tools but smarter with the cleaner window. so you have to find your balance.

But like most challenges with claude, if you can just express them clearly, there are usually ways of optimizing further

I've been wanting to start an alchemical spirits company in Amsterdam. Does anyone have experience in this space?

On the other hand, "magical new systems that provide almost unlimited capacity for intelligent work" is probably a more functional mental model. Genie can give you 1000 wishes till you reach your session limit.

Not quite 1000 on Codex as of last day or two!

Doesn’t it all look like child’s play though?

yeah where did that come from? It's like attributing the cartesian coordinate plane to Descartes -- when actually it was a textbook author who came up with the modern one...

I’m literally wearing that tshirt right now…

“Don’t code yet” is a longstanding part of the rapport

It’s only an imperfect vaccine — broad immune protection. Evolution probably has come up with a bunch of these.