[NTLK] Einstein, last call

[Michael Sheflin]

The same thought - I hope that the original email from 2015 forwarded
correctly describing me discussing implementing Arabic on a Newton in
2008.  It took Claude maybe an hour or two.

But Einstein will alway remain iconic.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 1:25 PM Matthias Melcher <m.melcher at robowerk.de>
wrote:

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> > On 23. Oct 2026, at 18:58, Noah Leon <moosefuel at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> >  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
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