Shilling my own app: Fatiao is on Steam, and it's on sale for a

2026-11-12 02:23

Shilling my own app: Fatiao is on Steam, and it's on sale for a limited time right now. I first shipped it a few years ago, back when there were no AI features in it at all. The computer control was all hand-written code. I rebuilt it this year with AI on top. Fatiao is an AI agent that lives on your PC. Not a chatbot, and not just a game trainer. Ask it for something and it writes you a plugin. Install it, and now that tool is yours. Everything is a plugin, so no two setups end up alike. It handles files, moves your mouse and keyboard, reads what's on screen, manages windows, and has a built-in browser for web stuff. Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1416190/Fatiao_Agent/

My Claude didn't last a week.

If the appeal doesn't unban me, I'm done. Days of this, I'm tired. IP, language, timezone, subscription region all match. Even the timezone Claude reads in chat is my environment's. Suspects: new account, Microsoft email, fable-5.2 eating the 5h quota in ten-odd minutes and not being worth it.

2026-11-12

carbon is now open to everyone.

aa scored 60 on intelligence, second only to feble-5.2's 75, and each task costs a third as much.

2026-11-10

Claude appeal rejected.

Won't refund the subscription either. I'm half convinced the appeal email is itself phishing, because I'm pretty sure they log the IP. DHH came to Shenzhen recently and showed how he uses Claude Code over there. That's the safest way now, honestly: run Claude Code on an overseas machine, connect through Tailscale, never use it locally. So I need to rent an overseas box with a residential IP, and register and log into Claude there.

2026-11-14

Sharing my current mobile only workflow.

Until late September it was the usual setup: parked in front of my laptop, terminal open, bossing pi around, fanning out subagents, then eyeballing diffs myself and filing the PR. Glued to the chair all day, every day. Late September I moved the whole thing to my phone, Hermes runs the show, pi takes the orders. My back is very grateful. Three weeks in, still no regrets. Stack: Hermes on flagship brains (gpt-6-astra / opus-5.5), pi on mid-tier (ds-v4.1-flash / sonnet / terra) with as few plugins as possible, the two talking over a2a. Hermes reads the issues, slices them into small tasks, spins up a worktree for each one, and dispatches a pi into it. When a pi finishes it pings Hermes, who decides: ship the PR or bounce it back for rework. I get back from a full day of being a tourist, or just wake up, and a dozen PRs are sitting there done. Pretty sweet. The catch is how black-box the whole thing is. My emotional arc has been a rerun of early vibe coding, except back then I at least read the diffs. Now even that goes to a flagship model. Boxes all the way down. If you don't have data anxiety, grok-bot and chatgpt-dot basically ship this out of the box, grok-cli and codex built in, native agent-to-agent comms. Downside: your code lives on their servers, everything's moderated, and one ban takes it all with it.

2026-11-14