This was a terrifying read because I initially read about this at the air port in Madrid after taking a Renfe train from Alicante; literally at the same time...just a different line
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The default mac dictation tool that ships with Mac and every other device has been good for an over ~5yrs
What do these tools have that the apple dictation doesn't. (Aside from marketing)
I tried therapy online and talking to human therapists might as well have been an LLM. Every response was so generic
tmux is probably my favourite tool by far. I highly suggest going through its documentation (even easier with LLMs now) to learn the basics. It's extremely scriptable.
One of favourite uses of it is its 'popup' feature. Combining the tmux popup with fzf creates a crazy opportunity of whats possible.
Highly suggest learning these tools; literally just point an agent at my comment here and ask it what one could do with tmux popup and fzf combined
One interesting care study is Posthog (I felt like it was a labyrinth; using your analogy) - primarily build in an age of LLMs, with a large investment and a large team behind it - it reached this stage:
> one player in a space gets huge, keeps adding features, loses sight of what makes them a good market fit
My first experience using their product (they had a generous free year for new startups) felt like exactly what the author describes. A collection of features.
I think it's just really hard to "not build a feature" and keep a product focused. Whether you're solo or a large team
> The product changes are primarily additive, not improving the core problem.
> I think the reasons for this is that it's lot easier to add new capabilities, than rethink existing capabilities.
> So each product becomes a collection of abilities, without actually having unified point of view.
> I wonder whether some of this comes from how the work is organized. Individuals work with agents to produce changes independently, each operating a small software factory.
I recently left my job and have been working on building a product. And even though I'm solo, I notice it's still very easy to fall into this way of operating. (Even before AI)
Having a clear product vision and sticking in to it; whether its features, design, copywriting, etc is really hard to do consistently over the lifetime of building the product.
I've had to revisit my product direction and realized a year and half in that I've been approaching the problem with a heavy bias of what I think people want vs what I should have been doing and building what people want.
The latter is really hard to do well
I spit out my coffee laughing when I read this
Having a good memory enables you to think deeper - if you remember certain concepts, you can reason better because you remember more concepts so your thinking is more in depth.
It's a personalized & data-driven typing application that targets your weak points
Looks awful from a design perspective. Had to double check that this was the actual IBM domain
But I don't know if I am imagining it; I'm starting to feel Claude's (AI) writing everywhere. Like this sentence for example:
> The genius of the gaucho’s system isn’t storage. It’s integration.
The x isn't y. Its z.
Can't speak for other use cases but highly recommend for solo devs and small teams.
Great support, great pricing and never had an issue with their services
Fresh account with two Ask HN questions that are bound to get replies
Yes - maybe saying "vibes" was minimizing the effort but what I am trying to say is that even the controlled testing is just asking users whether quality is impacted or not. Which is subjective and thats what I meant by when I said "vibes"
Don't get me wrong - I have no idea how one would go about testing this with other methods; I was just stating my assumption.
Since they rolled this out to all users I had assumed there would be other testing involved.
For some reason I had assumed testing this would be more sophisticated than just checking the thumbs up/down stats and user "vibes"
Something I'm working on next as well is making it more engaging!
Thank you
I definitely approached it from an engineering perspective - building what I thought was missing in the space that I wanted. In hindsight, it may not be the best business to quit a FAANG job for haha.
> Colemak, Dvorak...
We have these :). Have QWERTZ and British QWERTY as well. Going to add AZERTY next and a few others.
I an also exploring more uniqie/niche ones like Kinesis keyboards, etc.but no plans for this just yet.
> good luck!
Thank you!
I believe typing is probably one of the most important skills in 21st century for knowledge workers and yet one of the most neglected. Hoping to change that.
Anyone can learn to type fast, without having to think about or look down at the keyboard. We are building the best tool to help people get there quickly
Reminds me of DF (Distraction Free) YouTube but for LinkedIn. Tools like these make these platforms usable for me. The feeds are too addictive
building a product is the easiest part but building a good product that people want to use, pay for and functions without any issues is still as hard as ever.
i consistently see this sentiment online that "building is easy, marketing is hard" but then i see the product and its absolute AI generated slop I wouldnt touch for free