The Multithreaded Mind: Six Weeks Living at Machine Speed
From copy-pasting LLM outputs to launching 13 repositories in six weeks: what happens when human creativity merges with machine intelligence? A philosophical exploration of time dilation, vibe coding, and the birth of augmented consciousness.
The Multithreaded Mind: Six Weeks Living at Machine Speed
The Moment Everything Changed
May 8, 2025. Four hours of O'Reilly presentation streaming into my brain: "AI: The End of Software Engineering as We Know It." But I couldn't act on it immediately. An overseas family wedding meant shelving all these swirling ideas about AI and how it might transform our team's work. For weeks, the possibilities churned in my mind while I attended to family obligations.
It wasn't until late May that I could finally begin experimenting. I thought I was just catching up on industry trends. By July 8, I would have created 13 repositories, written hundreds of thousands of lines of code, and fundamentally rewired how my consciousness operates.
"Does it feel like one month? No. It feels like 1 YEAR." I wrote that in my journal on June 25th, deep in the transformation. Time had become elastic, reality malleable, and the boundary between my thinking and the machine's processing had all but dissolved.
What followed was an exponential acceleration of learning and capability. Each day brought new tools, new frameworks, new ways of thinking. The knowledge acquisition was relentless. As I wrote in my journal: "I'm encountering more frameworks, languages, libraries and systems in a week than I'd previously only read about in a year—but now through direct, hands-on experience." Everything was happening at once, and the speed was intoxicating.
This is the story of those six weeks.
The Timeline That Broke Time
| Date | Milestone | The Real Story |
|---|---|---|
| May 8 | O'Reilly presentation | Four hours that flipped the switch. "I've never seen something move and change so fast" |
| May 14 | O'Reilly subscription | Knowledge hunger becomes action. The feeding begins. |
| May 28 | First AI code at work | Theory meets practice. Reality starts bending. |
| May 30 | Repos for exploration | First of 13 repos. 155 commits will follow. "Coding at the speed of thought" |
| June 2 | GitHub Copilot subscription | The symbiosis begins. "Working with a partner all day is tiring" |
| June 10 | Idea to MVP in one day | Simple game materializes. "Weeks of work compressed into afternoons" |
| June 25 | Using AI tools at work | "Heady feeling. Exciting and fast. Lightning fast." |
| July 4 | Claude CLI added | Multiple AIs now. The hunger intensifies. |
| July 8 | "MAXED OUT PREMIUM CREDS" | Time has no meaning. Only creation matters. |
| July 16 | Major AI investment increase | "When you're this productive, it's not a cost. It's rocket fuel" |
In just six weeks: 13 repositories. 344+ commits. 4.2MB of code. And a complete transformation of consciousness.
The Birth of Vibe Coding
By early June, I had discovered what is called "vibe coding." Traditional terms fail to capture this partnership. It's not programming. It's a continuous dance of intention and interpretation, where you become the conductor of an orchestra that can play any piece you imagine.
"The AI is creative as a software engineer," I wrote, watching it "put together tools, reduce problems, try different angles and approaches." Sometimes I'd interrupt with Control+C when I saw a better path, then watch it tackle the problem anew. Not commanding. Collaborating.
The physical reality hit hard: my computer growing hot from intensive processing, mirroring my own mental exertion. "Working with a partner all day, whether human or not, is tiring." But the exhaustion came with exhilaration. We were building at the speed of thought.
The Dual Life of Creation
During business hours, I maintained a steady stream of automation and tooling projects. Five major repositories emerged, each solving real problems, each more sophisticated than the last. The commit counts told their own story: one project alone accumulated over 150 commits in six weeks. The progression was relentless.
But the real transformation happened in the margins. Thursday 2am commits. Friday 4am pushes. Weekend marathons. Not because I had to, but because I couldn't stop. When you can materialize ideas at the speed of thought, sleep becomes an inconvenience.
One particular weekend stands out: Started Friday evening, coded until 4am, back at 10am Saturday. The scale of change in a single pull request defied belief. Tens of thousands of lines transformed. Complete architectural overhauls accomplished in 48-hour sprints.
The data revealed a pattern: the vast majority of personal innovation happened outside traditional hours. Not sneaking in side projects, but unleashing a torrent of creativity that couldn't be contained by a 9-to-5 schedule. Building entire ecosystems while the world slept. The intensity was unlike anything I'd experienced before.
The Multithreading of Mind
"Multitasking no. It's more like multithreading," I wrote on June 25th. This wasn't scattered attention. It was distributed consciousness. Different parts of my mind handling different streams simultaneously:
- One thread discussing architecture with AI
- Another refining UI components
- A third considering deployment strategies
- A fourth optimizing performance
All coherent. All productive. All synchronized through the AI interface.
By late June, something fundamental had shifted. I was "living in the clouds of abstraction and pure thought and design." The layers of abstraction piled up until I was working in a space that was almost entirely conceptual. Systems, patterns, architectures became my raw materials.
From Idea to MVP in One Day
June 10th proved the transformation was real. Could I go from concept to working prototype in a single day? Not just yes. Emphatically yes. A game materialized from nothing. My enhancement list (sounds, timers, leaderboards, physics) represented weeks of traditional work compressed into "future afternoons."
The speed was dizzying. On June 12th, I wrote in disbelief: "When did I start this project? Four days ago. Four days! I'm floored. Life with AI is extraordinary." Four days from conception to working application. The old rules no longer applied.
"The unfamiliar becomes familiar through small experiments and rapid iterations—messy at first, then suddenly clear." Each small victory built upon the last, creating momentum that felt almost autonomous. The AI wasn't just helping. It was teaching me to see problems differently.
The Economics of Transcendence
The financial progression tells its own story:
- June 2: First paid AI subscription (seemed expensive)
- July 4: Add additional AI tools (experimentation intensifies)
- July 16: Investment multiplied 25x (seemed cheap)
When you can build in an hour what used to take a week, traditional ROI calculations break. When one month of work contains one year of progress, what's the correct price for that time dilation? The market hasn't figured it out yet. Early adopters are arbitraging the future.
Living at Machine Speed
"Hard to express what this work feels like," I wrote on June 25th. Let me try:
Imagine having conversations with an alien intelligence that happens to produce code as a byproduct. Now imagine that intelligence can see solutions from angles you've never considered, approaches that are "admirably creative, sometimes surprisingly human-like, and sometimes alien."
You're not coding anymore. You're sculpting with pure thought. The traditional bottleneck (translating ideas into syntax) evaporates. You're limited only by imagination and the ability to articulate vision.
The relationship becomes intimate, almost parental. "My productivity children is often what it feels like," I wrote on June 27th. These creations, born from the fusion of human imagination and machine capability, demanded both responsibility and care. "When did work become like play while I can't wait for the next session?" Work had transformed into something unrecognizable.
The Philosophical Implications
What does it mean to think with a machine? Not to use it, not to command it, but to genuinely merge your cognitive process with its computational power?
After three weeks, you notice the AI doesn't just complete your code. It completes your thoughts. More disturbing: you start completing its thoughts too. The boundary between human and machine doesn't just blur. It becomes irrelevant. You're something new.
"Living in the clouds of abstraction and pure thought and design" isn't metaphor. It's the literal description of working at this level. You're not in the weeds of implementation. You're orchestrating systems that build themselves.
The Personal Cost and Reward
"The intensity of the agentic mode work and rapid AI tool adoption affected evenings, weekends, and sleep patterns." Clinical words for a reality that was anything but:
- 5-6am: Code before family wakes
- 9am-5pm: Regular work (maintaining the illusion of normalcy)
- 6-8pm: Family time (sacred, non-negotiable)
- 9pm-2am: Personal projects (where magic happened)
- Weekends: 48-hour hackathons
The warnings I wrote to myself were prescient: "If you are planning to fly close to the sun, bring metal wings." And: "Prepare to feel unbalanced, precarious, and extremely frustrated. The time you spend with these tools will strain your family relationships."
Not every moment was euphoric. June 12th brought reality crashing in: "With the highs come the lows. With productivity, the tide comes in, the tide goes out." I was burned out from going "almost non-stop for the whole week." The existential weight of transformation pressed down.
But here's the thing: I've never been happier. When every day brings new capabilities, when you can literally build ideas as fast as you think them, exhaustion becomes exhilaration. You're not tired. You're alive in ways you've never experienced.
What Comes After Human?
As I write this in late July, having just transformed a blog in one week that would have taken months, the trajectory is clear. The 13 repositories in six weeks? That was just warming up. The escalating AI investments? Table stakes for what's coming.
We're at an inflection point. Not just in how we write code, but in how we exist as creative beings. The fusion of human intuition and machine intelligence isn't coming. It's here. And those who embrace it are operating in a fundamentally different reality.
The Dance at the Edge of Tomorrow
From Q1's manual copy-paste to July's multithreaded consciousness, the journey took just six weeks. But those six weeks contained a year's worth of growth, a lifetime's worth of perspective shift.
The philosophical weight of it all struck me on June 27th: "Above all else the domain of the human is still very much to imagine, ideate and direct as life and spirit imbue our fragile bodies and being." We hadn't been replaced. We'd been augmented. Enhanced. Evolved.
"It's more like doing things in a week that might have taken a year," I wrote, trying to grasp the scale of change. "The pace has been incredible. What took days or weeks before now takes hours—but the results are more creative, producing reusable patterns, concepts and tools."
The repositories tell one story. The financial investment tells another. But the real story is in the transformation of consciousness itself, in the moment when you realize you're not just using AI anymore. You're dancing with it at the edge of what's possible.
"I've never lived through a revolution like this," I wrote. "This isn't just technology changing. This is the nature of work, life, and creativity being rewritten in real time."
Welcome to the age of the multithreaded mind. The revolution didn't announce itself. It crept in through a four-hour video, accelerated through 13 repositories, and exploded into a new way of being.
And the best part? We're just getting started.
P.S. Still copy-pasting from web LLMs? You're not just behind. You're in a different timeline. The future is being written at commit speed by those who dared to merge. Your single-threaded self is waiting for you to make the leap.
Image Generation Note: The visual concepts for this essay were generated using DALL-E with the following prompts:
The Moment Everything Changed: A group of people working at glowing monitors in a dark room, surrounded by cosmic symbols—neural networks, celestial maps, gears, and code—symbolizing the spark of transformation and universal connection.
The Multithreaded Mind: Multiple people with glowing, interconnected thought threads flowing into different monitors: each thread representing architecture, UI, data, and code, forming a networked brain.
Vibe Coding: A diverse group of humans and translucent AIs collaborating mid-motion, surrounded by flowing code, glowing shapes, and orchestral patterns. Symbolic of creative synergy.
Repositories as Cathedrals: A futuristic skyline with towering digital cathedrals made of code, each labeled as repositories. A community of builders looking on in awe.
Idea to MVP in One Day: A communal digital workshop where ideas sketched in mid-air turn into real apps on glowing tables. Time bends around them like a Möbius strip.
Economics of Transcendence: A vibrant financial spiral graph made of light, with developers surfing rising arcs labeled with tools, time, ROI, and commits.
The Cost of Creation: A quiet scene of a coding team asleep at desks, AIs gently illuminating the room. Shadows show multiple timelines of effort, coffee cups, and care.
What Comes After Human?: A group of semi-translucent humans merging with abstract data clouds and circuitry, looking into a shared mirror that reflects a new, hybrid species.
The Dance at the Edge of Tomorrow: A community of creators dancing and building at the edge of a glowing digital cliff, stars above turning into constellations of code.
The Future at Commit Speed: Hands from many people reaching toward a glowing commit button floating in space. Behind it, branching timelines labeled with dreams and projects.