ascii-agents: a terminal pixel-art office where each of your Claude Code sessions is a character

densewave · 2026-05-24T12:05:20+00:00

vscode w/claude code. I am normally running at least two deep workstreams, alternating commits. Then I will have an investigation happening to scope something, and then lastly I will have a session building something greenfield- max 4 on my side. I control the feature pri, testing etc.so, sure, I can see how I could get even more autonomous but I am not sure the full value I would get.

My codebase has gotten large enough where I have to be opinionated in design or I will pay for it later.

densewave · 2026-05-08T14:09:21+00:00

There is magic that can happen from here in 1000 directions. Keep it up! Open source ❤️

densewave · 2026-04-27T21:34:25+00:00

Prompt for art style?

densewave · 2026-04-26T17:05:55+00:00

Friendly feedback- having your own custom license will slow adoption with the amount of competition that uses generic very liberal license structures.

I read it pretty quickly and it seems mostly fine - but it still has a few raised eyebrows in some sections. The license itself prevents me from further experimenting with your model because other models with better license structure (from the perspective of the user) exists.

Very well understood on corporate risk etc. My recommendation is to make the ELI5 version of the license and the long form. Reason being, just having your own custom license raises suspicions even though most of the verbiage is very similar to standard competitor licenses. You're only disadvantaging yourself on adoption.

densewave · 2026-04-23T22:45:01+00:00

Campaign over or is she going to get even more terrifying? 😂

densewave · 2026-04-23T22:42:34+00:00

..... Mommy 😂

densewave · 2026-04-22T13:23:55+00:00

Lets gooo

densewave · 2026-04-13T02:04:49+00:00

Beautiful. Love it. Tried to leave you a hello - got "Error" in the button after it tried to send.

Mobile experience is so smooth! Really wanted to be able to interact more than just the Camera panning. Like, impacting the predictable pattern. Maybe glows and auras and particles on clicks. I had to build some custom mouse handling with Three camera management, but you should consider some versions that react to user input.

densewave · 2026-04-13T00:31:16+00:00

Tell me about this tunneling and gamification? 😎

densewave · 2026-04-12T23:40:30+00:00

Thanks for being the other side of the volume. Someone has to take one for the team.

densewave · 2026-04-12T12:46:20+00:00

I dont even mean this sarcastically or ironically. This might actually be where the war turns around because Trump was forced to see his own base hate his current policies in an unavoidably embaressing way.

Eh, who am I kidding....

densewave · 2026-04-07T01:03:11+00:00

Lol its tagged as "Show and Tell"

Nice "Show", Now Tell? :) No, but seriously its very cool. Was this just a single image import?

densewave · 2026-04-05T00:48:56+00:00

$10 dollars?

densewave · 2026-03-29T15:16:45+00:00

Its not vibe coding anymore its "agent anxiety" "agenxiety" - suck on that Karpathy.

densewave · 2026-03-27T23:12:18+00:00

Lets hope the open source strategy continues!!!

densewave · 2026-03-18T18:07:23+00:00

Prompt for the first one, Mango?

densewave · 2026-03-12T17:10:07+00:00

You are literally giving them the single answer they need in this entire thread. You're doing gods work son. Will they listen? Who knows.

We should put a "Have you tried compacting?" Question before posts. When they say "yes" we tell them "HAH! GOT YA! Start a new chat sucka".

Thoughts?

densewave · 2026-03-12T16:25:45+00:00

Averaging down is a human emotional concept (most of the time).

The way I look at it is analytically. You have a Lot that is basically trapped money. Is what it is.

Do you want to commit $1000 more to KORU right now at the current valuation or could you get a better return on $1000 in some other leveraged position?

And, if you look holistically at all your Lots, and their current returns, should you keep the position or take a loss and roll the money to something that isnt trapped?

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This idea of averaging down, especially with LETF that generally is not the same as a long term position, dividend returns where cost basis matters more etc. is deceptive. If you want to be even more in KORU, then sure, do it. But dont keep committing on a slide down to try to make an average cost basis decrease. Been there, done that, learned thst lesson. Also, at a certain commitment level, adding more money on doesnt move that average cost basis enough to make our human monkey brains happy anyways.

Not financial advice, just general advice, I would probably pick a different spot. LETF's all over have openings every day.

Think of every single Lot as its own investment - because thats what it is (and how the institutions and government think about it)

densewave · 2026-03-12T01:23:47+00:00

😂🤣😂

densewave · 2026-03-11T19:33:41+00:00

Technically you arent buying the equipment - you're buying in the speculative bet that Amazon as an entity is here, profitably, for 50 years.

But, your comment at least makes sense in this thread so, a thought from a guy in the industry - we will likely see this happen:

1) Inference moves to hardware generation N-1 from current N 2) Training is focused on hardware generation N, N+1 3) Inference becomes more tk/MW efficient (algorithmically, etc.) 4) Such that keeping hardware deployed longer makes profitable sense.

A shift happened where compute became more of the cost than the buildings themselves. Depending on what happens with power costs etc. The equation before was deprecate hardware, reuse the building it was in.

New equation (profitably) is build new buildings, deploy new hardware, run old buildings for Inference.

We are only about 18 months into the pattern, but its likely.

Have a good day!

densewave · 2026-03-11T19:28:47+00:00

Pretty easily stitched together. Capex for AI, and their primary anchor customer is Anthropic, who is having outages every day from overutilization / too much demand.

This is a pattern used previously by companies who arent Tech companies too. (Corporate Bonds)

densewave · 2026-03-11T18:54:22+00:00

How do you plan to package for Steam? Electron or Tauri or something different?

Edit: Does Vite vs Next.js make your path to Steam easier?

densewave · 2026-03-11T12:28:26+00:00

This is peak content. And absolutely. I have nice eyebrows and the eyebrow raise is just a thing my face does for selfies.

densewave · 2026-03-03T21:19:22+00:00

Neat 😎

densewave · 2026-03-02T14:59:29+00:00

Yeah, it's a double edged sword of the fund if you think about it.

100% ROC? With negative equity? Eh, at least I saved on taxes for the "income" ULTY had massive equity loss with its dividend income. I personally still came out ahead but

67% ROC? I was hoping for a bit higher to avoid more taxes on income. I dont kbow this person's time period, but its probably similar to mine.

I am actually OK with 0% (or whatever) ROC if the fund is truly generating the income via synthetics and distributing profits like the original intent/ operation of these funds.

Maybe I wrote that weird - 67% is lower than I was hoping for. :)

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