At most, PoW makes it a bit annoying to scale: you need to add some form of RPC that delegates solving to a beefy+cheap Hetzner server. If you're really scaling and it's getting expensive, you can rent a GPU to do batch solves.
Same. I got a crazy old Ubuntu desktop when I was 9 or something. It couldn’t run any games and that’s why I learned Python. I wouldn’t be who I am today if I had a machine capable of running Minecraft at the time…
Oh that made it seem like I was the driving factor. Maybe for the first one (Percy.io) I can claim a large part of that success (owning the SDKs and support end to end).
The other I just owned the front end infra and was on the growth team. The rest of the folks were the stars on that one.
Edit: I guess I brought that up because I guess I don't know any more "real work" that that, ha. What is 'real work'?
Recently, what have been working for me is to take a day off just to explore stuff that interests me related to programming. I've been learning sleep states and working on the Rust track on Exercism.
The productivity boost that you get from Claude Code should be reinvested into learning your subject area deeper, rather than just churning out more superficial code.
It makes me happier this way. Experiencing flow is the best way for me to feel happy, and programming was the most reliable way to achieve that before Claude Code / Codex.
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