title: i invented 'decisions'
yes hello welcome not much to read on the internet today so i am going to write for you
i am writing as an unassisted human (we need markdown tags for this)
last time i wrote something in my normal prose voice my boss thought it was AI
so now im writing as ee cummings littler brother who doesnt get it
ive been banging away at these agents since before claude code came out
ive been a true believer since deepseekv3 showed its first thought traces
and back in the 2000s i let some radeon graphics cards print ~50 btc for me
even though it made my apartment hot and noisy
and of course i lost it thank goodness
now as of jan 26 2026 according to my goblin scouts i have the largest fork of gas town in github
and it looks like me and steve are making similar decisions and finding similar things
so i might be in a rare for me position to move the front forward
and at first i thought let's just not mention it because either ill be ignored or get attention
and i dont like either one! but im at a point where if someone else showed this before me
i would feel jealous
so now that ive told you about my mothers clam chowder recipe let me tell you about my thing
im not sure how to start
but i think ill say 'inversion of control'
all it is is you add a stop hook to claude code that says 'youre not done until youve given me a decision i can make'
and then you send the decisions to a TUI where you can dispatch them and add notes
and in my version when you respond it nudges the gastown work
and the result is magical
thats it thats my thing.
but the lore in my family is that my dads dad
discovered the transistor but didnt see the use of it
so to prevent that happening again i will give screenshots
and explain myself again if it's not obvious what the deal is
this is not a great screenshot as there arent any great decisions to make in it
but you can see the bones and the beauty right?
every agent has to send you a decision before it can be idle
so if your inbox is empty every agent is hard at work
and if you dont like the decisions youve got just type 'r' and provide a rationale
the agent will come back with different decisions for you to make
i got this working yesterday and already this TUI is my main interaction point
thats how i know it's good
maybe some other services have this kind of feature idk
but my ship rate has gone up at least 5x since last night
and goblin town hasn't exploded
so as my call to action
you could give me some money
but right now i feel like you know how ms cleo
why would she need to run a psychic hotline
when should could just win the lottery
so i thought about not posting this
but i remembered almost nobody will believe me anyway
you hackernews buddies are so skeptical
im aghast every day what have you all become
so im going to keep cranking away on goblin town
and there is no call to action