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## HARD RULE - design scope must always be maintained and no function should ever be longer than XXX lines and no class should have more than Y methods. Create new classes and subclasses and refactor until the criteria are met.

You'd be surprised how readable this makes the code when XXX is about the size of your vertical screen and Y is relatively small.

GPT-5.6 12 days ago

My code was always plumbing. Glue stuff together. Connect data model to api.

I'm still using my brain, just doing a lot more plumbing now and reading a lot more code than writing. Depressing in some ways and exciting in others. At the end of the day it's not going way. It's disruptive and better to embrace it.

As an outsider not paying too much attention, how do you beat the ledger problem? Crypto only works if there is a ledger. I don't want a ledger of every transaction I made. Seems like an insurmountable fundamental privacy issue.

When I used them the main issue was latency spikes due to their IP ranges getting DDoSd. They host a lot of shady/spam sites.

I like the capabilities of C++ and imgui but didn't want to deal with C++ anymore so I had AI do it.

imping - PingPlotter-like app. They didn't have a Linux version and I'm a paying customer, so I vibe coded this one: https://github.com/zenakuten/ImPing

utcolor - text colorizer for Unreal Tournament 2004 https://github.com/zenakuten/utcolor

utquery - Unreal Tournament 2004 Game Browser tool https://github.com/zenakuten/utquery

utstatsdb - This is an old project that did not work anymore with modern php+mysql. I had claude fix it. https://github.com/zenakuten/utstatsdb