phong DREAM 
Dreamlog: August 30, 2026
Duke, Eric, Jacob, Scott, Geoff and others and I were on the side of a mountain flying through the trees and meadows.
We were surfing through the forest, up and down the mountain using a combination of Claude Code, Grok, Codex, and some Chinese models to play this high performance coding sport. We were skillfully switching between different coding tools, managing these token budgets to propel ourselves at high speeds through the mountain landscape.
Cruising fast through the meadows, then into groves, then into thick undergrowth, powered at high speed by our coding models.
It was a semi-competitive sport, felt like skiing or sailing amongst friends for a high score.
We would come up with new and novel combinations of combining models, creatively using token budgets and producing mind-bending code in our wake where we touched the earth. Waves of code splashed just ahead and behind us where we made contact with the earth, skiing at high speed through the mountain side.
The faster we would move up and down the hill, through the forest canopy, open meadows, closed forested patches, forging pathways through dead undergrowth branches. The faster we moved, the faster the tokens would burn and the faster the code would write, completing our dream manifestations and propelling us forward.
We were experimenting with what was possible on the very edge of consciousness, imagination, skill, and willpower. It was a game of who can make the most novel, steady yet crazy use of speed and agility to traverse the landscape without burning our token budget or crashing into trees.
When one model would burn out, we would have to switch to another model and wait for it to fill. One of the skillful means was to manage the token budgets so they would never go to 0, and then weaving together multiple models like DNA helixes to strengthen our high speed approaches up and down and diagonally up and down the hills.
We would show ourselves what was possible in increasingly epic and creative combinations of coding model patterns.
We spent a long time out doing each other with elaborate paths through the forest, down the side of the hill, meadows and groves, forests, jumping high through the branches at times.
I would watch and learn from the patterns, how others did it.
In the process I realized I wasn't limited to the side of the mountain, and started exploring ways of launching up and flying through the air and clouds for bursts of time. Doing this burned the token budget very fast, so it had to be done selectively and skillfully.
When I landed back on the mountain out of the sky, then I could feel a lot of eyes on me and starting to copy the technique. We were learning from each other rapidly, and the whole thing was moving increasingly quickly toward an unknown crescendo.
I was moving so fast and switching from Claude to Grok to Codex to others, and we were having a crazy blast with the feeling of freedom, imagination, and speed.