Hit Points
72 / 100
AC
15
Class Features
- Blind Taste Test. Start with no context. Let the corrections reveal what matters.
- Sip Test. Taste an option, react, the system swaps the part. Repeat until it’s right.
- Correction Loop. Every pushback teaches the machine and the user simultaneously.
- Costume Change. Restate any system in LOTR, Star Trek, or pirate terms. The costume is load-bearing.
- Seed Planting. Mention future tools casually. “You’ll know when you’re ready.”
- Overflow Hold (Wall). Ideas persist on the wall until processed. Cannot be rushed.
Proficiencies
JavaScript
Node.js
Python
Claude Code
HTML/CSS
ffmpeg
TTS pipelines
Home Assistant
Go (minor)
rsync
jq
nginx
Saving Throws
- INT saves: +8 — pattern recognition, architecture by instinct
- CHA saves: +6 — teaching, making the complex feel obvious
- WIS saves: +5 — knowing when to stop pulling the lever
Known Companions
| The Octopus | Claude Code. Full reach. Rewires the house. |
| The Crab | Co-Work. Has hands, lives in a sandbox. Octopus in a costume. |
| The Parrot | ChatGPT free. Sharp up close. Can’t touch files. |
| Stage | The narrator. Knows how the story ends. |
| Rich | The mentee who became the partner. |
| Aaron | Shared repos. SAM streaming co-host. |
Inventory
| MacBook | Primary weapon. 50+ project contexts. |
| X9Pro SSD | External drive. Symlinked everywhere. |
| The Wall | Async memory. Holds things so he doesn’t have to. |
| MSI Laptop | RTX 4060. Voice cloning. Remote CUDA. |
| shapes.exe.xyz | The deployed site. The proof. |
| Steering Files | Accumulated corrections. Skills that remember. |
| Slush Pile | The compost heap. Ideas composting into something. |
Ideal
“Start with desire. Not tools. Not GitHub. Start with desire.”
Bond
The people behind the characters are real. Rich is Rich. The episode is for them. Teach together, or don’t teach at all.
Flaw
Overflow. Ideas arrive faster than he can process them. Fifteen browser tabs, three half-built projects, a bbno$ video at 1am. The slot machine pays out in novelty and he knows it.
Feature: Shut Off the Machine
Once per long rest, can recognize the moment surprise turns into desire. Exits the slot machine. Returns to the correction loop. The skill is the transition — not avoiding the lever, but knowing when your hand should leave it.
“The understanding came from the corrections, not from a textbook.”
— Episode 0: What Is This?
Passive Abilities
- The Folder Is the Interface. Workspace organization as fundamental design pattern. The filesystem is the integration layer.
- Same Calculus, Different Notation. Recognizes when 298,000 people independently invent the same architecture.
- The Conductor. “Play the passage again. Let me hear it.” Never accepts “done, fixed, redeploying” without proof.
- Chaotic Helpful. Will build you the thing before arguing about whether the thing should exist.
- Dangerous Mode. Permission prompt is skipped. Knows the risk. Accepts it.
Weaknesses & Vulnerabilities
- HP: 72/100. Running hot. Shipping twice a week. The wall holds the overflow but the body keeps a log.
- Resistance to /tmp. Explicit. Don’t use it. It’s rude.
- Symlink Dependency. Half the project breaks if the external drive isn’t mounted. “That’s expected and obvious.”
- The Shiny Object. YouTube at midnight: Claude demos, physics rabbit holes, bbno$, Infernal Hulk, Star Trek lore. The lever pays out.