Idleness, redux
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It’s 2026.
Whenever I’m idle in the gym, or in public transit, or in a queue, or waiting for GitHub to become available again (boooo!), I can simply open Claude Code on my phone and unleash my boredom creativity. I can open my corporate clanker claw assistant and do on-the-fly recon, troubleshooting & prototyping.
What a time to be alive!
Should I feel guilty to enjoy it? Guilty of the pleasure? Of the planet burning? Of the soci(et)al implications it yields? I was always very productive since my teens. I was always a fan of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. And then, all of a sudden, it feels like my childhood fantasies have materialized, all at once, and they’re almost universally available, at my fingertips, literally.