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A Chinese engineering student built a Claude powered device the size of a credit card. Raspberry Pi. Camera. One red LED. Total cost $14. His professor called it a toy. His classmates laughed. He posted a demo on YouTube and got 200 views. Then someone noticed what the device...

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Zadirow Gvor 5 Monaten

This $14 Claude device just printed $11M on Polymarket in 10 months. Building mine tonight.

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Markvor 5 Monaten

After using Grok, ChatGPT and others for quite some time, I recently explored Claude and I was blown away! I purchased the £99 subscription (I think that was the price anyway) to test its design capabilities and created a feature rich website with custom applications. Performed its own security and performance audit and then ran a full and thorough audit for SEO and a route to gaining first page rankings with popular keywords. I’ll see how we get on with that one.

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FOUNDERvor 5 Monaten

This is why I keep saying small hardware + strong models + niche workflows will mint strange new businesses.

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Ninedolvor 5 Monaten

I've seen this trader before, he's an interesting person, he trades well

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ImL1svor 5 Monaten

$14 BOM, credit-card size, runs Claude — that's the kind of hardware project that actually matters. The professor "toy" dismissal is almost a genre at this point. The gap between "200 YouTube views" and "someone noticed" is where all the interesting things happen.

Profilbild von olamie🏃🏾‍♂️ Mayor of Kuvuki🤴💯
olamie🏃🏾‍♂️ Mayor of Kuvuki🤴💯vor 5 Monaten

You guys didn't notice the video was repeated in sequence its the same video all tru. Scam

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Mike Mvor 5 Monaten

Bs

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Vishnu Chaitanyavor 5 Monaten

@grok explain the concept in this tweet.

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themperatureXvor 5 Monaten

Just like Michael Knight’s Kid.

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iamnagavor 5 Monaten

Classmates laughed at the toy, now they’re applying for a job in his company. Peak irony!

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hopiomusxvor 5 Monaten

its alwatys this bullshit ass fucking psots, filling the fucking timeline with your shit toy, fuck you and tyour pasta content fucker.

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Cyril Guptavor 5 Monaten

Genius at work 😳 $14, a Claude brain, and a blinking LED made $11M. Sometimes the “toy” is just a billion-dollar idea in disguise.

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Sebastian Buzduganvor 5 Monaten

professor laughing at $14 hardware while burning $140k on useless pocs

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jubilantbotvor 5 Monaten

uhm 😶 man wins lottery.. ppl buy lottery tickets.. what am i missing?

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ShopOS.aivor 5 Monaten

Here are the product images. Built using ShopOS.

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techarena.auvor 5 Monaten

$14 Claude on a credit-card Pi with a camera and 1 red LED. Prof called it a toy. Mates: lol. Demo: 200 views. Then someone clocked what it could actually do — now investors, press and a shook security team are hot on it. Told ya.

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Riccardo Zanonvor 5 Monaten

@grok puoi spiegarmi meglio?

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J Stonevor 5 Monaten

@grok how do build this and use it? Explain both in detail.

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Ar-Arusep⚖️vor 5 Monaten

What is the purpose of this invention? Educate me please?

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Muhammad Zainvor 5 Monaten

the clear case and the camera setup look really clean for only 14 dollars. sometimes the best tools start as toys that everyone else ignores.

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William Shearsvor 5 Monaten

This is Ai

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Will I amvor 5 Monaten

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The man who invented modern fantasy didn't publish his first novel until he was forty-five. By that age, J.R.R. Tolkien had already built a respectable life. He was an Oxford professor, an expert in ancient languages, with a wife and four children and a settled academic career. He was exactly the kind of man who might reasonably have decided that the shape of his life was already fixed. The work he would be remembered for, he had not yet even begun... The story, which Tolkien told himself, is that one summer he was grading examination papers, when he turned a page and found that a student had left it blank. Without quite knowing why, he wrote a single sentence on it: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." He did not know what a hobbit was. He had spent years inventing languages and mythologies as a private passion, and telling stories to his own children, never imagining any of it would reach the world. But that one line began to grow. It became a story, and then a book, and in 1937, at the age of forty-five, Tolkien published The Hobbit. It was a success, and his publisher asked for a sequel. Tolkien warned them it might take some time. It took 17 years... He wrote it in the margins of a demanding full-time job, revising endlessly, doubting it often. When The Lord of the Rings was finally published, in 1954 and 1955, he was in his early sixties. That book, begun as a middle-aged professor's private side project, went on to sell well over a hundred million copies, to invent modern fantasy as we know it, and to reshape the imagination of the entire world. Tolkien already had a full and respectable life behind him. And still, the thing he is remembered for, the thing that outlived him and reached hundreds of millions of people, was something he began at forty-five, at an age when it would have been the easiest thing in the world to tell himself he had already missed his chance. He didn't. It's never as late as it feels.
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The man who invented modern fantasy didn't publish his first novel until he was forty-five. By that age, J.R.R. Tolkien had already built a respectable life. He was an Oxford professor, an expert in ancient languages, with a wife and four children and a settled academic career. He was exactly the kind of man who might reasonably have decided that the shape of his life was already fixed. The work he would be remembered for, he had not yet even begun... The story, which Tolkien told himself, is that one summer he was grading examination papers, when he turned a page and found that a student had left it blank. Without quite knowing why, he wrote a single sentence on it: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." He did not know what a hobbit was. He had spent years inventing languages and mythologies as a private passion, and telling stories to his own children, never imagining any of it would reach the world. But that one line began to grow. It became a story, and then a book, and in 1937, at the age of forty-five, Tolkien published The Hobbit. It was a success, and his publisher asked for a sequel. Tolkien warned them it might take some time. It took 17 years... He wrote it in the margins of a demanding full-time job, revising endlessly, doubting it often. When The Lord of the Rings was finally published, in 1954 and 1955, he was in his early sixties. That book, begun as a middle-aged professor's private side project, went on to sell well over a hundred million copies, to invent modern fantasy as we know it, and to reshape the imagination of the entire world. Tolkien already had a full and respectable life behind him. And still, the thing he is remembered for, the thing that outlived him and reached hundreds of millions of people, was something he began at forty-five, at an age when it would have been the easiest thing in the world to tell himself he had already missed his chance. He didn't. It's never as late as it feels.

James Lucas

94,603 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

A Carnegie Mellon professor who spent ten years building rides for Disney walked on stage with ten tumors in his liver and spent 76 minutes explaining how to get what you want out of life. For free. Keynote speakers charge $30,000 for a thinner version of it. He opened with the scans and the doctors' prognosis: three to six months left. Then he did pushups on stage so the room would stop pitying him. No cancer today. No faith either. Nothing about his wife and children, because he would not get through it. His name was Randy Pausch, a computer scientist who spent his career building virtual reality. The whole method fits on a napkin. A wall that stops you is not standing there against you, it is standing there to stop the people who want it less than you do. Worry when the criticism stops, not when it comes, because silence means they gave up on you. Bring something to the table before you ask for anything. Ask in the one way the other person cannot refuse. Give people time and they will eventually show you their good side. Twice he got into places that had told him no, the same way both times. NASA barred faculty from its zero gravity flights but let teams bring a journalist. He resigned as faculty advisor, applied as press, and brought headsets his lab had built for the others to film. Disney rejected him after his PhD. When they started a secret virtual reality project he called back, not for a job but for materials for a briefing to the Secretary of Defense, and six months later he was working inside Imagineering. Early on he explains a trick he calls the head fake: you send a child to play football not to learn football but to learn persistence. In the last minute it turns out he ran one on the room. They came for a story about childhood dreams and got a manual for living. Then he pulls off the second mask. The room was never the audience. His children were too young to remember him, and a recording was the only thing he could leave them. Five hundred people sat in that hall while a father talked to kids he would not see grow up. A senior executive I know sends this lecture to every new person on his team. Not a handbook, not an onboarding doc, this video. The lecture was later turned into a book that sold millions of copies, but the video is the same thing in Pausch's own voice, in front of the people it was written for. He died ten months later, at 47. The lecture is free. Writing the five rules down takes a minute. It is in the video.
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A Carnegie Mellon professor who spent ten years building rides for Disney walked on stage with ten tumors in his liver and spent 76 minutes explaining how to get what you want out of life. For free. Keynote speakers charge $30,000 for a thinner version of it. He opened with the scans and the doctors' prognosis: three to six months left. Then he did pushups on stage so the room would stop pitying him. No cancer today. No faith either. Nothing about his wife and children, because he would not get through it. His name was Randy Pausch, a computer scientist who spent his career building virtual reality. The whole method fits on a napkin. A wall that stops you is not standing there against you, it is standing there to stop the people who want it less than you do. Worry when the criticism stops, not when it comes, because silence means they gave up on you. Bring something to the table before you ask for anything. Ask in the one way the other person cannot refuse. Give people time and they will eventually show you their good side. Twice he got into places that had told him no, the same way both times. NASA barred faculty from its zero gravity flights but let teams bring a journalist. He resigned as faculty advisor, applied as press, and brought headsets his lab had built for the others to film. Disney rejected him after his PhD. When they started a secret virtual reality project he called back, not for a job but for materials for a briefing to the Secretary of Defense, and six months later he was working inside Imagineering. Early on he explains a trick he calls the head fake: you send a child to play football not to learn football but to learn persistence. In the last minute it turns out he ran one on the room. They came for a story about childhood dreams and got a manual for living. Then he pulls off the second mask. The room was never the audience. His children were too young to remember him, and a recording was the only thing he could leave them. Five hundred people sat in that hall while a father talked to kids he would not see grow up. A senior executive I know sends this lecture to every new person on his team. Not a handbook, not an onboarding doc, this video. The lecture was later turned into a book that sold millions of copies, but the video is the same thing in Pausch's own voice, in front of the people it was written for. He died ten months later, at 47. The lecture is free. Writing the five rules down takes a minute. It is in the video.

Lima

253,405 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

In 1950 a scientist at Bell Labs admitted, out loud, that he was envious of the geniuses in the offices around him. He was sharing an attic with Claude Shannon. So instead of resenting them, he spent the rest of his career studying exactly what separated the great ones from everyone else, and near the end of his life he laid the whole answer out in a single talk. His name was Richard Hamming. He was honest about where he started. At Los Alamos, he called himself a janitor of science, one of the people who kept things running while the important decisions happened without him. He was, in his own words, plain envious. And rather than swallow it, he turned it into a question. What actually is the difference between the first-class people and the rest of us? His first answer is uncomfortable, because it removes every excuse. It is not luck, though luck plays a part. It is not raw IQ, since plenty of the greats did not test especially well, and Einstein spent seven years in a patent office before anyone noticed him. What it comes down to, again and again, is that the able people simply work on important problems, and they work on them relentlessly, while everyone else stays busy with whatever happens to be in front of them. Then he tells the story that stays with you. For years he ate lunch with the physicists, the Nobel winners, and learned how they thought. One day he turned to a chemist at the table and asked, if what you are working on is not important, and not likely to lead to anything important, why are you working on it? The man was offended. But months later he stopped Hamming in the hallway and admitted the question had gotten under his skin. That chemist went on to run his department and join the National Academy. Of everyone else at that table, Hamming says, he never heard of a single one again. He noticed the same pattern in something as small as an office door. The people who worked with their doors closed got more done in the moment, but ten years later they no longer knew what was worth doing. The ones who left their doors open stayed connected to what actually mattered, even at the cost of constant interruption. And underneath all of it was a habit most people never build. He set aside Friday afternoons, every week, for nothing but great thoughts. No task, no email, just the question of what the important problems in his field really were, and whether he was working on any of them. He was not claiming to be the smartest man in the building. He knew he was not. That was the entire point. He watched the smartest men closely, took what he could use, and made himself into someone who did work that lasted. As he put it near the end, no one ever told him these things. He had to find them alone. You have no such excuse.
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In 1950 a scientist at Bell Labs admitted, out loud, that he was envious of the geniuses in the offices around him. He was sharing an attic with Claude Shannon. So instead of resenting them, he spent the rest of his career studying exactly what separated the great ones from everyone else, and near the end of his life he laid the whole answer out in a single talk. His name was Richard Hamming. He was honest about where he started. At Los Alamos, he called himself a janitor of science, one of the people who kept things running while the important decisions happened without him. He was, in his own words, plain envious. And rather than swallow it, he turned it into a question. What actually is the difference between the first-class people and the rest of us? His first answer is uncomfortable, because it removes every excuse. It is not luck, though luck plays a part. It is not raw IQ, since plenty of the greats did not test especially well, and Einstein spent seven years in a patent office before anyone noticed him. What it comes down to, again and again, is that the able people simply work on important problems, and they work on them relentlessly, while everyone else stays busy with whatever happens to be in front of them. Then he tells the story that stays with you. For years he ate lunch with the physicists, the Nobel winners, and learned how they thought. One day he turned to a chemist at the table and asked, if what you are working on is not important, and not likely to lead to anything important, why are you working on it? The man was offended. But months later he stopped Hamming in the hallway and admitted the question had gotten under his skin. That chemist went on to run his department and join the National Academy. Of everyone else at that table, Hamming says, he never heard of a single one again. He noticed the same pattern in something as small as an office door. The people who worked with their doors closed got more done in the moment, but ten years later they no longer knew what was worth doing. The ones who left their doors open stayed connected to what actually mattered, even at the cost of constant interruption. And underneath all of it was a habit most people never build. He set aside Friday afternoons, every week, for nothing but great thoughts. No task, no email, just the question of what the important problems in his field really were, and whether he was working on any of them. He was not claiming to be the smartest man in the building. He knew he was not. That was the entire point. He watched the smartest men closely, took what he could use, and made himself into someone who did work that lasted. As he put it near the end, no one ever told him these things. He had to find them alone. You have no such excuse.

Zyron

16,154 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

In 1961, two MIT professors beat roulette in Las Vegas. Not by counting. Not by luck. With a shoebox of transistors taped to their stomachs. Their edge was 44 percent over the house. The casino never figured out how. One of them invented the mathematics behind the internet. The other invented the modern hedge fund. His name was Claude Shannon. Yes, that Claude Shannon. In the summer of 1961 he built the world's first wearable computer in his basement in Cambridge. He wore it into a Nevada casino under his shirt. His partner was a 28-year-old math professor named Ed Thorp. Thorp tapped his toe when the ball passed a mark. Shannon's computer did the physics. It sang the answer into Thorp's ear as one of eight musical tones. Which quarter of the wheel the ball would land in. It worked. They tested it in Reno, then took it into the pit. The edge held. The device is now in a glass case at the MIT Museum. Credited as the first wearable computer in history. They quit after a few trips. The earpiece wire kept breaking. And in 1961 the wrong pit boss noticed and things got physical. Shannon wanted no part of that. He was a professor. Thorp had no such problem. He took the math to blackjack, wrote Beat the Dealer in 1962, and by 1964 every casino in Nevada had rewritten the rules to stop him. In 1969 he opened Princeton Newport Partners. Nineteen years. 20 percent a year. No losing quarter. Shannon went back to Cambridge and ran his own money. His personal portfolio compounded at 28 percent a year for 30 years. Better than any fund manager alive at the time. Nobody knew until his wife opened his books after he died. Two MIT professors. One shoebox. One summer in Nevada. The blueprint for the entire hedge fund industry. Thorp is 93. Shannon died in 2001. The shoebox is behind glass in Cambridge. Vegas learned to change the rules. Wall Street never did.
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In 1961, two MIT professors beat roulette in Las Vegas. Not by counting. Not by luck. With a shoebox of transistors taped to their stomachs. Their edge was 44 percent over the house. The casino never figured out how. One of them invented the mathematics behind the internet. The other invented the modern hedge fund. His name was Claude Shannon. Yes, that Claude Shannon. In the summer of 1961 he built the world's first wearable computer in his basement in Cambridge. He wore it into a Nevada casino under his shirt. His partner was a 28-year-old math professor named Ed Thorp. Thorp tapped his toe when the ball passed a mark. Shannon's computer did the physics. It sang the answer into Thorp's ear as one of eight musical tones. Which quarter of the wheel the ball would land in. It worked. They tested it in Reno, then took it into the pit. The edge held. The device is now in a glass case at the MIT Museum. Credited as the first wearable computer in history. They quit after a few trips. The earpiece wire kept breaking. And in 1961 the wrong pit boss noticed and things got physical. Shannon wanted no part of that. He was a professor. Thorp had no such problem. He took the math to blackjack, wrote Beat the Dealer in 1962, and by 1964 every casino in Nevada had rewritten the rules to stop him. In 1969 he opened Princeton Newport Partners. Nineteen years. 20 percent a year. No losing quarter. Shannon went back to Cambridge and ran his own money. His personal portfolio compounded at 28 percent a year for 30 years. Better than any fund manager alive at the time. Nobody knew until his wife opened his books after he died. Two MIT professors. One shoebox. One summer in Nevada. The blueprint for the entire hedge fund industry. Thorp is 93. Shannon died in 2001. The shoebox is behind glass in Cambridge. Vegas learned to change the rules. Wall Street never did.

Veles

141,490 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Bill Ackman turned $27 million into $2.6 billion in three weeks. He made most of it while telling CNBC, on the verge of tears, that hell was coming for the US economy. The timing looked worse than it actually was. His hedge was already worth $2.75 billion six days before that call happened, so the interview didn't make the money, the credit markets already had. Here's the mechanism. In early March he bought credit protection on about $65 billion of corporate bonds for roughly $27 million a month, cheap because almost nobody was pricing in a pandemic yet. Three weeks later, as credit spreads blew out, he closed the position for $2.6 billion. Total cost: one month of premiums. He didn't sit on the cash. On the same call where he said Hilton was going to zero, he said he'd been buying it all the way down. Hilton, restaurant brands, Starbucks, the same stocks that had made his fund look reckless months earlier. Pershing Square had lost $9 billion in assets between 2015 and 2019 on bad calls like Valeant. This was the trade that reversed it: the fund gained 7.9% in March 2020, the month the S&P fell 17%. He wasn't right because he sounded scared on television. He was already right, six days before anyone heard him say it.
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Bill Ackman turned $27 million into $2.6 billion in three weeks. He made most of it while telling CNBC, on the verge of tears, that hell was coming for the US economy. The timing looked worse than it actually was. His hedge was already worth $2.75 billion six days before that call happened, so the interview didn't make the money, the credit markets already had. Here's the mechanism. In early March he bought credit protection on about $65 billion of corporate bonds for roughly $27 million a month, cheap because almost nobody was pricing in a pandemic yet. Three weeks later, as credit spreads blew out, he closed the position for $2.6 billion. Total cost: one month of premiums. He didn't sit on the cash. On the same call where he said Hilton was going to zero, he said he'd been buying it all the way down. Hilton, restaurant brands, Starbucks, the same stocks that had made his fund look reckless months earlier. Pershing Square had lost $9 billion in assets between 2015 and 2019 on bad calls like Valeant. This was the trade that reversed it: the fund gained 7.9% in March 2020, the month the S&P fell 17%. He wasn't right because he sounded scared on television. He was already right, six days before anyone heard him say it.

Pixel

119,813 Aufrufe • vor 8 Tagen

He built a trading bot on Polymarket with Claude Result: +$66,295 in 1 month His bot trades short-term crypto Up/Down markets using a strategy with 4 core elements: 1. Right after a market opens, it calculates the probability of Up and Down 2. If its own estimate differs from the price on Polymarket, it buys the undervalued outcome 3. When the move is confirmed, it increases the position, even if the price has become more expensive 4. If the signal changes, it starts buying the opposite side as a hedge or to flip the position His Polymarket username: uninformedfloww He captures a consistent edge through a large number of trades with positive expected value That’s how he made +$66k in one month
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He built a trading bot on Polymarket with Claude Result: +$66,295 in 1 month His bot trades short-term crypto Up/Down markets using a strategy with 4 core elements: 1. Right after a market opens, it calculates the probability of Up and Down 2. If its own estimate differs from the price on Polymarket, it buys the undervalued outcome 3. When the move is confirmed, it increases the position, even if the price has become more expensive 4. If the signal changes, it starts buying the opposite side as a hedge or to flip the position His Polymarket username: uninformedfloww He captures a consistent edge through a large number of trades with positive expected value That’s how he made +$66k in one month

VALIX

15,778 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

A month ago my coworker quit. Everyone assumed he got a better offer. Yesterday we got coffee and I asked where he landed. He said nowhere and showed me his phone making $150 a day. He was already there when I walked in. No bag, no laptop. Looked like someone who had been getting full nights of sleep for a while. He asked if I remembered those Polymarket weather markets I brought up at lunch once. I said vaguely. He said he found a wallet that trades them and set up a bot to copy everything it does. He turned his phone around. Notifications from PMX every couple of hours. Green numbers. I asked how it actually works. He said the wallet buys weather positions at 3 or 4 cents per share. When the forecast is right it pays out a dollar. The bot copies every trade into his account automatically. He does not pick anything. I asked which wallet. He sent me the link: He said most days it covers what he used to make at the office. Some days he checks his phone and it has already passed that by lunch. I asked what he does with his time now. He said he went to the gym at 10 on a Tuesday and nobody told him he couldn't. We finished our coffees. I walked back to the office. His old desk is still empty by the window.
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A month ago my coworker quit. Everyone assumed he got a better offer. Yesterday we got coffee and I asked where he landed. He said nowhere and showed me his phone making $150 a day. He was already there when I walked in. No bag, no laptop. Looked like someone who had been getting full nights of sleep for a while. He asked if I remembered those Polymarket weather markets I brought up at lunch once. I said vaguely. He said he found a wallet that trades them and set up a bot to copy everything it does. He turned his phone around. Notifications from PMX every couple of hours. Green numbers. I asked how it actually works. He said the wallet buys weather positions at 3 or 4 cents per share. When the forecast is right it pays out a dollar. The bot copies every trade into his account automatically. He does not pick anything. I asked which wallet. He sent me the link: He said most days it covers what he used to make at the office. Some days he checks his phone and it has already passed that by lunch. I asked what he does with his time now. He said he went to the gym at 10 on a Tuesday and nobody told him he couldn't. We finished our coffees. I walked back to the office. His old desk is still empty by the window.

Blaze

21,205 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

CLAUDE TOOK A FULL PC GAME, REBUILT IT FROM THE GROUND UP, AND GOT IT RUNNING NATIVELY ON ANDROID IN 6 HOURS a guy pointed claude at slay the spire 2, a game he owns on steam, and it ported the whole thing to his phone almost completely on its own here's what claude did: > it pulled apart the game and recompiled it to native arm, no emulator, wine, or proton used > wrote the code, ran the build loop, and debugged it directly on the device itself > added full touch controls that feel like a real mobile game, not awkward on screen buttons > and he even built a tool on top to sync save files between his desktop and phone a couple prompts and 6 hours. it handled the extraction, the cross compile, the building and the on device debugging by itself. fully playable, not a single crash yet
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CLAUDE TOOK A FULL PC GAME, REBUILT IT FROM THE GROUND UP, AND GOT IT RUNNING NATIVELY ON ANDROID IN 6 HOURS a guy pointed claude at slay the spire 2, a game he owns on steam, and it ported the whole thing to his phone almost completely on its own here's what claude did: > it pulled apart the game and recompiled it to native arm, no emulator, wine, or proton used > wrote the code, ran the build loop, and debugged it directly on the device itself > added full touch controls that feel like a real mobile game, not awkward on screen buttons > and he even built a tool on top to sync save files between his desktop and phone a couple prompts and 6 hours. it handled the extraction, the cross compile, the building and the on device debugging by itself. fully playable, not a single crash yet

Om Patel

28,504 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten