If I have an idea today, I am only a few prompts away from accomplishing it. Example, between my first and fourth cups of coffee today I:

• Stood up a self-hosted iOS notification server
• Wrote a MCP server to work with Target
• Wrote an MCP server to work with Instacart
• Used Hermes to categorize all of October’s Target purchases in my vibe-coded personal-finance app
• Created new dashboards in personal finance app
• Analyze the last 90 days of banking transactions
• Re-categorize kids accounts in said app
• Installed a new shell w/ custom extensions on my old computer

This leaves out a couple of work tasks I accomplished during the same period, or anything else I did where I was driving the computer myself.

I have SO MANY ideas and for the first time ever I can implement any of them, ALL of them. And the cost in either dollars or time is quite low per task. My personal finance app can’t have taken more than 45 minutes of my time and is already so complete that if I had it 5 years ago I could have built a company around it. I don’t even know what it cost me, a few dollars in flat-fee subscription costs.

I now find that I need a new level of self-discipline to defer idea implementation from day-to-day. In the past, it was relatively easy, if an idea was going to take 3 months the ROI was so low it was easy to say no. When I have 90 ideas that take under an hour each the ROI is much higher.

I wouldn’t get anything done if all I did was get all of my ideas done.

There is a constant temptation to put off some “real world,” tasks to spin up the next Claude session to get it working on an idea I just had.

So what’s the point? I think that this level of productive distraction will begin to hit everyone as time, money and capabilities become 1% of the bottlenecks that they were before.

I doubt that we’re ready for it.