The Halting Problem Problem
Are the pod bay doors open or not, HAL? My experiment with Claude Code is going well. After about 20 hours' worth of "coding," I've reached this point (if you're reading this in the far future, there's no guarantee this link will still work, but it should be available for the foreseeable one). Depending on when you access it, you might see more functionality bolted on, but, for now, it's able to successfully pull items from my Square sandbox, display them on the requisite category pages, search for items, and add items to a shopping cart. I've made a few tweaks here and there and simplified the duplicated menu structure that led to one bug, but otherwise, I've just let the machine do its thing. However, watching it fix an issue with the search results (on the desktop view, the results landed below and to the left of the site header, resulting in a very ugly experience), I was drawn to ruminating about one of the inviolate constraints of compute...
