Livid Spot

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