justbees

I think this is the strongest quote in the article

> The main issue was that businesses invented solutions in search of problems that people never had, rather than finding ways to improve customers’ experiences.

There's always room for finding solutions to problems people didn't _know_ that they had. This is just inventing or misinterpreting problems to try and get rid of employees.

I include a rule in the initial PR prep that it runs. So there's a hard limit to the length of the comments and what type of comments it can write and they get flagged in the review. It also reads the comments and checks for consistency with the following code so they don't drift. And the reviewer is a completely different agent/different model.

So all of that happens before the manual review and usually catches a lot of the 3-5 line comments it inevitably adds.

That's so interesting to me! I actually have a terrible memory for events and names so my answer is almost always - sort of. So I can visualize an apple, but if you say - remember that time we went apple picking with Greg? I might only vaguely remember that, and not know who Greg is. But, if you showed me a picture of Greg I would probably say - oh that's that guy we went apple picking with. Why did we do that?

My mom has aphantasia and we were both shocked to discover it even exists.

She saw something about it online and then started asking everyone in the family if they could picture an apple in their mind. We all said - yes of course, what are you talking about?

And she said, "When you say the word apple, I think of the concept of an apple. It's juicy. It's crisp. It's red, etc, but I don't SEE an apple. I just know what it is."

She had no concept that other people literally saw the apple and I had no concept that people couldn't see the apple.

I asked her what she thought the phrase "in your minds eye" meant for her entire life and she said she thought it just meant exactly what she was describing and not literally seeing anything...

I lived in an apt in Brooklyn for 5 years, a brownstone built in 1931, and I never saw a single roach (they also never raised the rent).

1. we kept it very clean 2. the owners/landlords lived in the building with their children

Thank you "Monika landlord"! (that's how she signed the Christmas cards she would give us - yes, I know how lucky we got)

I've been doing the same thing lately and I definitely feel like stubbing out the high level architecture at the beginning makes a difference. The codebase I'm in now has very particular ways of doing things and claude doesn't always pick that up.

Style can be as important as substance.

I still do a lot of back and forth about the plan - have it written to a file. Read through the file, make changes by hand and have claude read my changes and on and on. But starting with the basic architecture there's less ambiguity.

There's a DVD box set that has almost all of the original music!

like wet sacks of cement...

I actually ended up with pdf because I could brand it and my parents (who are in their 70s) understood it better than seeing a CSV. That was REALLY throwing them off. We went through rounds and rounds with the sharing. So instead they just get a little image that they can import and then all the data is embedded in the pdf along with tiny images, but it just looks like a little thumbnail file.

Oh man! I made an app for my family too. They have an antiques/book selling business on eBay so I made an app for them to actually keep track of things as they buy them.

That was where their process was breaking down - When did we buy this? How much was it? The sort of things that are semi-difficult to keep track of when you're going to A LOT of estate sales and then basically need to enter all the stuff into a spreadsheet when you get home.

So the concept was - take pics and enter simple data as you're out and about and then export the data when you get home.

I ended up going way down some deep rabbit holes because I didn't want to host any data (my goal was to actual release the app and hosting people's shopping trips wasn't something I wanted to take on).

So it's all local storage and for sharing between family members I ended up embedding the data in a pdf that you can send in a text and then import - so if x people are at the same sale they can all add to the same "trip" at the same time and then combine the trip when they're all finished shopping.

So image and data optimization were big concerns since it's all on your phone until you export it/delete the trip.

I was a fun process until it wasn't :P

I did end up getting to 1.0 and shipping to the app store, which was really my goal -> make an app and go all the way through the process. So in that way it was a success.

Yeah my parents thought it was funny and I was like... yeah not actually. You need to get that fixed.

My dad likes to joke around and his doctor uses some kind of transcription service. Time for fun!

His doctor asked him about using drugs and he made a joke that was something like "I only use coke" - meaning coca-cola. Of course his doctor knew he was kidding about drinking too much soda because he eats/drinks too much sugar. So they had a little laugh and moved on.

BUT now it's in his medical transcripts. My mom said it "transcribed" it as something like "the patient responded he has used cocaine recently".

I guess his doctor doesn't go in and actually fix things or even read over what the transcription says...

Also both of my parents have accents and have reported really weird transcriptions that don't match what they actually said.

So now my mom has told my dad he can't make jokes with the doctor anymore because even if the doctor knows he's joking it's going to get noted down as a "fact".

Don't worry I'm crying enough for both of us.

If the two are indistinguishable from an outsider's perspective how would you know which one to trust?