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the big claude down

With apologies to Nine Inch Nails.

It has been six months since my last update.

This was not intentional. Prior to this, I was attempting to maintain a cadence of one to two weeks, sometimes slipping to three, between updates.

Unfortunately, in early November, I received this email:

An email from Anthropic telling me that I had $250 in Claude Code credits to use within two weeks

And being the industrious individual that I am, I endeavoured to entirely drain those credits before time ran out. I ran myself ragged in dispatching work to Claude. I stayed up late, woke up early, and found myself acting as I imagine a CPU scheduler would. As a result, my personal projects saw the most productive two months of my life ever.

This was an effort so majestic that it itself took four months to document. It was also rather self-destructive, which is a topic for another day.

Don't try this at home.

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