If the folder is versioned and commited regularly there is no problem. It also allows you to open the files in your IDE, do some other tasks or fixes for claude. It prevents claude from accessing any other folder, which is the idea of the post.
This breaks the non-interactive mode the post want to achieve. Claude will not be able to install some things and will require user action, which is not desired here.
I get why you may not close <img> or <br> since they don't contain anything inside, but <p> and <li> should be closed to indicate the end of the content, otherwise it's shows you are mentally lazy and relying on some magic to do the work and guess what you wanted
We don't need that to be pre-loaded on the device, do we? how often are they used? and when one is set to be used, the user is definitely online already, just grab the one then
The story is interesting but clearly lacks the most useful parts:
- interview and feedback of people actually using it (since the author says they are not the target audience at the end)
- experience with the shower: does it feel private enough, was it clean, ...
- experience related to other people staying there: could you hear them? were they nice? socializing?
- feeling regarding the small space
The story clearly mentions people who have no such choice but have to go to the city because their work requires it, and wouldn't spend 250$ per night to meet such requirement.
I wouldn't worry about fire: it seems to be quite modern so most likely has quite some fire equipment and concrete. Common parts from the pictures don't seem to have much flammable stuff. Last time I stayed in London was in a hotel assembled from multiple old 3-4 floors buildings and multiple old wooden staircases, like to go to your room you had to go to floor 2 then end of a corridor then to floor 3 and right left and stuff like this in 1-person wide corridors and stairs. There I was scared of a fire because there was definitely a feeling of no way to escape fast.
Sure it's different teams, but the management at some level is common to the whole house, and if you choose to perfect the paint before fixing the pipes, it means something
This is not how it works though: a product team shouldn't spend time working on this kind of details while big parts of the product are not good enough.
The author mostly write about average startup work, not about industries or more constrained environment. A good example of this is the sprint thing: you can do whatever pace you want when you work on your own product that is a web product, but as soon as you work on something with hardware or marketing, you can't just use random deadlines.
You are way off: it's just about money. For a long time, making appliances was an ok business, making good stuff, selling them, factories running, employment, margins ok, ... and there was progress/innovation to do.
Now that there is not much to update or innovate with, and companies have already squeezed workers in Bengladesh to the max, the only current innovation and additional money source are "connected" and "ads".
So what? The Rolls-Royce & Bentley L-series engine was made from 1959 to 2020, 60 years, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce–Bentley_L-series_V...), and was only replaced because of mergers and change in ownership, not because of its capacities. It of course evolved quite some during that production span.
Sadly about 98% of real world users are going to fall into scams, ransomwares and stuff. They are not mentally challenged, there are just so many traps/fakes/tempting stuff that we as IT people are more aware of (but even we still fall into some).
We also can't count on every person being able to check every single thing they do: how do you check if some food or drug you get is good or not? you can't really, you have to trust someone who knows.