Erkin Khidirov

After 3 months of solo building on evenings/weekends, I noticed my 7 9pm block is where ~80% of shipped code lives. Everything else mornings, lunch breaks, weekend afternoons turns into planning, browsing, or half-baked drafts that get thrown out.

Two things I had to change to protect that window: killing all notifications until 9pm, and doing planning the night before so I don't waste the shipping hours on "what should I build today."

Both major labs switched on text watermarking within 48 hours at the turn of August. My first thought was that this is very hard to do in a way that actually holds text has no pixel layer to hide anything in. So I read Anthropic's own documentation on how it works.

It does work. It also breaks in a lot of ordinary situations, and they say so themselves: short text leaves too little signal, heavy editing or translation thins it out, screenshots and format conversion strip it entirely.