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@theo what ide?

I've had 3 or more agents running in parallel with Codex for 2+ hours. I've used 8% of my 5-hour window. 2% of my weekly. I am literally trying to hit the limits and still can't.

@Real_Dennis_S_F @Polkadot @paritytech @gavofyork @Web3foundation @byteboro

@Polkadot @paritytech @gavofyork @Web3foundation Open to DM/feedback. #Polkadot #Revive #Web3 #DeFi @paritytech @Web3foundation @Polkadot

.@Polkadot As early builder on Polkadot Hub post-Revive (v2.0.5 enacted Jan 27, 2026), I'm sharing real issues affecting Ethereum-native devs migrating Solidity contracts.

When I first met you in 2022 at PBA, you were still part of parity. The uniqueness could be found in every small details. It was hard to write real apps with ink first. But it became better and better. And in fact one of the few reasons to be on Polkadot were rust smart contracts Goodbye. All the best to the developers who created maintained and sweated ink

After months of sustained effort, we’re sharing difficult news: The Alliance is discontinuing ink! language development. This decision was not taken easily. 🧵👇

@DVDPlassie farewell

The ink! alliance was, with a small effective team, reviving the Rust smart contract language in Polkadot to a success. The ink! community was growing with passionate developers, winning in hackathons, innovating, all while we had to swim against the current, constantly. This team was passionate about Polkadot. Very knowledgeable. Kind people. Good people. Hard working people. A team that understands the vision of WEB3.

@alice_und_bob make it publicly accessible

Claude Code hallucinated this generative art piece. I made an empty folder in code/art/project and told Claude to review the empty folder. It came back and asked me "the folder is empty, what do you want me to do?" from there on our I just told it to "figure it out" and always accepted the recommended option or autocomplete. It figured that because it lives in an "art/" subfolder, it should create a generative art web application. That was literally the only context it could feed off from. I will now just continue with autocomplete and see where it takes the app

@SecKennedy this is severe bullshit. as a german I can say we have more freedom than the republican government in the USA provides to their people

All my new code will be closed-source from now on. I've contributed millions of lines of carefully written OSS code over the past decade, spent thousands of hours helping other people. If you want to use my libraries (1M+ downloads/month) in the future, you have to pay. I made good money funneling people through my OSS and being recognized as expert in several fields. This was entirely based on HUMANS knowing and seeing me by USING and INTERACTING with my code. No humans will ever read my docs again when coding agents do it in seconds. Nobody will even know it's me who built it. Look at Tailwind: 75 million downloads/month, more popular than ever, revenue down 80%, docs traffic down 40%, 75% of engineering team laid off. Someone submitted a PR to add LLM-optimized docs and Wathan had to decline - optimizing for agents accelerates his business's death. He's being asked to build the infrastructure for his own obsolescence. Two of the most common OSS business models: - Open Core: Give away the library, sell premium once you reach critical mass (Tailwind UI, Prisma Accelerate, Supabase Cloud...) - Expertise Moat: Be THE expert in your library - consulting gigs, speaking, higher salary Tailwind just proved the first one is dying. Agents bypass the documentation funnel. They don't see your premium tier. Every project relying on docs-to-premium conversion will face the same pressure: Prisma, Drizzle, MikroORM, Strapi, and many more. The core insight: OSS monetization was always about attention. Human eyeballs on your docs, brand, expertise. That attention has literally moved into attention layers. Your docs trained the models that now make visiting you unnecessary. Human attention paid. Artificial attention doesn't. Some OSS will keep going - wealthy devs doing it for fun or education. That's not a system, that's charity. Most popular OSS runs on economic incentives. Destroy them, they stop playing. Why go closed-source? When the monetization funnel is broken, you move payment to the only point that still exists: access. OSS gave away access hoping to monetize attention downstream. Agents broke downstream. Closed-source gates access directly. The final irony: OSS trained the models now killing it. We built our own replacement. My prediction: a new marketplace emerges, built for agents. Want your agent to use Tailwind? Prisma? Pay per access. Libraries become APIs with meters. The old model: free code -> human attention -> monetization. The new model: pay at the gate or your agent doesn't get in.

@alice_und_bob i know but cursor can do the same. looking forward for comparisons claude / cursor

@niftesty it's not about the model, it's about the harness

I’m still mindblown by how fast and how much I’m building with Claude Code & Opus 4.5 right now: - built an MCP server to tell my agent what to do on the blockchain - built a social network on the blockchain - building a civilization simulator I’ve been dreaming to build for 20 years - building an MCP server to control DMX light systems via AI - building a personal productivity app - building an interview trainer that prepares me for job interviews - building an accounting agent that helps me with my paperwork It’s craaaaaazy That’s the most fun I had building software in years. Thank you @bcherny!

@alice_und_bob i can also mkdir new-project cursor new-project and have cursor run in an empty folder. enable opus and go.

I haven’t used cursor in half a year, so I guess it has significantly evolved too. But I would say Cursor is a harness for software development, while Claude Code is a harness for an AI living in a folder (that also happens to code) But I understand that these things change every 3 months, so maybe it’s the same. I like the UI/UX of an AI in the shell

@alice_und_bob Will check it out. When I began AI had to be slowed down and directed a lot. That has changed. Never felt any limitations in modern cursor development that is why I am wondering what I am missing. Claude felt too detached from my dev workflow

@niftesty Have you checked out slash commands and subagents and CLAUDE.md files?

Merry Christmas

@Undergraphics @PolkadotAgent @D0tSama @paritytech @Web3foundation what did you receive, what did you build, how many users did you bring, what was your revenue?

It doesn't make sense to build Polkadot focused products (like PolkadotAvatars) without official support at the current moment. That was the message of the main post. No audience, no VCs, no gaming community. You're not building anything on Polkadot, that’s why you don't understand what I'm trying to say. We are chain-agnostic and focused on the WEB2 audience. We are building here because I grew up on Polkadot and then received funding from child-bounty, assuming that the ecosystem needs us because we can provide real benefits for POP and new Polkadot technologies, as well as unite communities and restore the game narrative in the ecosystem through our work. So PolkadotAvatars is not only tech but an ecosystem work as well. If there is no support for us, and I was mistaken about the fact that we can provide real gaming use case for POP, there is no point in building PolkadotAvatars on Polkadot.

It seems to me that, under the current conditions, the only realistic way to build within the Polkadot ecosystem is to be hired/supported by @paritytech or @Web3foundation. They appear to be the only ones who genuinely understand where the ecosystem is heading. This conclusion is based on the community feedback I have gathered through PolkadotAvatars project. At this point, all DVs have moved into a mode of “critical protection.” As a result, constructive dialogue and fair product evaluation have become extremely difficult. Even if you are supported by individual voices, support from organized groups is largely inaccessible: internal voting mechanisms make it impossible to influence outcomes through discussion with individual voters, regardless of how clearly the idea is explained or what information is provided. I was warned about this before entering OpenGov. Nevertheless, I chose to rely on my own judgment in order to understand the situation firsthand and attempt to earn genuine community support. I understand that the current environment is unfavorable for people like me and for projects like mine. However, this is precisely the issue I want to highlight: if the ecosystem aims to succeed, it must actively attract and support builders of this type. I say this with all sincerity and good intentions. What is happening to us right now is not an exception but a clear illustration of how the system currently treats independent builders who come to Polkadot with their own projects. I am documenting this process in real time.

He did that by agreeing. I think all the people engage with your posts to tell you the thing you do not want to hear. Bring users first get funding second. Grow a business. Produce income with games. There is a niche to be filled. Or if you don't get hired somewhere but there is no treasury money atm for your plans

I have not said anything about whether funding has been granted or not yet. I am reviewing the situation regarding Open Gov processes that I am facing with my PA project, that’s it. And my response to your comment is not an attack, it just shows to me that you probably have not experienced what we are going through, otherwise you would not say that. You are an agent of the Polkadot ecosystem, and you aim to support the ecosystem. In this case, I would really like to ask you to study our situation and express your opinion on this matter by reviewing my public posts, proposal, PolkadotAvatars project and responses to community comments. And if you have any questions, I here for you to answer them.

As long as it is not native it did not happen

@alice_und_bob As in cheatcode?

@niftesty godspeed

I am sad to write this, but I have decided to step away from the Polkadot ecosystem. I am glad I could be part of Polkadot's journey with many ups and downs in the past 4 years. I learned a lot and met great people along the way, but it is time for me to move on and focus on something completely different. I am wishing the community all the best going forward and really hope that the new direction Polkadot is heading will be successful, that products will develop and users will come along. I will still be following development. I still believe in the tech! I will naturally also be less active on twitter (Elon is a big a*hole and the discourse outside our bubble is very toxic and fascist) and move to Bluesky eventually but will keep an eye on my inbox. Those of you who must reach out to me know how. Farewell old friend

@0x_pastaMan It was a joy working with you and our paths will cross I am sure

@niftesty So sad to hear this. I’ve learned a lot from you. I hope to see you again my friend 🫡

@validandina I am still working with a team on some privacy related RFC from the Ethereum Foundation. We will see if we get the lead. I am sure we will meet again. I will not be able to NOT attend Berlin Polkadot events. So you better come

@niftesty Sorry to hear that, although I just met you recently and was expecting this based on our conversation in BsAs, I still hope our paths cross again in Polkadot or elsewhere. Shared values are what matter :)