[NTLK] Einstein, last call

[Matthias Melcher]

> On 23. Oct 2026, at 18:58, Noah Leon <moosefuel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  But I know for you, Matthias, part of the fun was in the discovery and understanding of the device, so in that sense there’s no reason to be sad. Or is there?

Yes, if you like we can do a video conference.

I am going through phases. When you made your wonderful film, I compared NewtonOS to a huge Sudoku: I knew I would never finish it, but the search for new digits was fun.

AI turned that inside out. It fulfilled our decades old wish to get the source code in a rather unexpected way. Now we have the source code, well, some source code, but are we fine?

My first week was prety bad. I had to verify what Daniel achieved and asked Claude to rewrite the Sinclair ZX Spectrum ROM as a terminal app. Something I tried before as a feasibility test: rebuilding a 16kB ROM, multiplied to see how long rebuilding NewtonOS would take. It took me many weeks and I lost interest on the way.

It took Claude less than three hours.

Next, I ran Claude over all the software I wrote in my life. It gave me a lit of bugs that it found with an hour, and asked if it should fix them, all of them, in probably just another hour.

This is just insane.

I am in phase three now: I paid fro a pro subscription, and I go through every project - like Einstein and many more - and I tell Claude to fix and invent pretty much anything and everything I always wanted to fix or do eventually. This has become addictive. Claude just shovels stuff so fast, even when I have it fix three projects in parallel. Holy sh🦎t!

I try to take all the positive I can until Anthropic figures out that they are losing billions to individuals the rebuild established apps like PhotoShop and randomly merge games for no sensible reason. Did you guys see the mod where Mario drives his cart through a Doom WAD?

 - Matthias