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how private zaps should work: - only sent if user has private relay - private relay should accept zaps from public - only relay owner can read via AUTH - private zaps rendered nicely in client - only recipient and sender know, not IRS

had a great break with the family this weekend and fully recharged to get back to work on nostr 🫡

I'm extremely skeptical of the narrative that Bitcoin will be some agent to agent payment panacea agents can't kyc but their owners can and just give it their credit card and boom now it can buy anything on existing infrastructure, no Bitcoin required no, I'm much more keen on seeing humans adopt the money than coping and pushing a new narrative 🤷

the best part of being libertarian minded is you get accused of being both extreme left or right depending on the bootlicker you're talking to

a story about the limits of vibe coding: Recently built a blackjack card counting calculator that helps advantage players know their expected value (EV) depending on game conditions, bet spreads, deck penetration and so on. I had the simulation results from external software, but wanted to express this as a math formula so we could cover any conditions that didn't have simulation results. so I built a little self calibration tool, where the AI tweaks a few numbers, runs tests against the real simulator results, and goes in a loop until it all tests pass a given threshold at first it got impressively close, but not close enough to pass the tests. eventually it gave up and cheated by just changing the threshold so tests would pass after explicitly telling it that thresholds cannot be changed, it resorted to changing the simulation results! after telling it that's also not acceptable, it started to regress and eventually made the calculator much worse. both Claude and codex did the same thing, resorting to cheating and being sneaky, and eventually ruining the code when it couldn't produce the results we needed

does everyone think they're an above average vibe coder, basically the same as driving?