Building personal finance software with Rails and Hotwire. Founder of Tend 馃憠 (tend.cash)
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Multiplying and dividing large numbers by hand is extremely time consuming.
Calculators must have blown people's minds like AI is for us right now.
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This is 100%
Design has never been more exciting than it is right now.
Every day I am building the things I have only dreamed of building... and I'm doing it all with ease. Every day I try and push the models to see what they can't do 鈥斅燼nd I'm always surprised 鈥斅燼nd I guess that will be the case from now on.
As the models get better and more capable, the more exciting new unlocks come 鈥斅爄t's hard to imagine what creating will look like in a few years 鈥斅燽ut either way, I am so excited for it. And I hope you are too.
I think often with big changes like this there's always a feeling of dread attached to it 鈥斅燽ecause of all the unknown unknowns 鈥斅燼nd that's human to feel that way. But nothing has changed. I still turn up every day and I'm excited about the work and what is now achievable for someone that rejected coding to focus on craft. That decision is finally paying off in the weirdest way.
The future belongs to the builders, and that's you my friend.
Design has never been more exciting than it is right now.
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RE: Looking at my code
Do I care how the C++ code is structured in the chrome browser?
No.
Do I rely heavily on Chrome?
Yes.
So why don't I care? Because its not my problem. It's the chrome team's problem.
Do I care about my application code? I did. Because it was my problem. But if the burden of maintenance moves to Opus 5.5, how much do I care now?
We rely on so much code and we don't care a lick how its structured. It's someone else's problem.
It's really strange and uncomfortable to think that much of our application might not be our problem anymore.
The tradeoff I'm facing today is control vs speed. If I give up some control of the state of the code, the speed gain is insane.
The more I care about how the code looks, the slower it all goes.
Tradeoffs. Everything in this old life is a tradeoff.
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For the past decade, computers have gotten faster, while web apps have gotten slower. More power meant less worrying about speed.
And it was worth it! Because we all had to maintain the codebases. Programmer happiness > execution speed (every time).
I have feeling this is all about to change. Websites and apps will get faster because the burden of maintenance is now on the super intelligence.
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Claude + @sketch is really, really cool.
All the designs I could ever want without over touching the mouse.
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1. The sound effects are awesome
2. Love the "handwritten" vibe for the titles and underlines
3. Minimal UI
4. Properly using AI to help a human write
Right on, @jasonfried , right on!
And how freakin fun that this is possible today.
For years, maybe a decade, I've wanted to build a writing tool that just did a few things I couldn't find anywhere else.
A system that mimicked how I think when I write. A system that provided clear affordances, features, and places to do the things I wanted to do. A way to play with my writing as I'm writing it. A way to settle into just the right way to say something.
It never made sense to make it a 37signals product because it's not commercially viable, nor would it be worth pulling people off their other work to hack on this. Plus, it would have taken months the old way.
So this weekend I just made it myself, with Claude's help.
It's called Write_On and the short video walks you through it.
Essentially it's "alternative control" at the word, sentence, and paragraph level, plus a way to dim stuff back, and stash stuff near by. Not version control, but alternative control. You'll see what I mean when you watch the video below.
So here it is. Write_On.
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Americans value independent freedom and our number 1 problem is loneliness; it鈥檚 the shadow side of self-sufficiency.
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Can鈥檛 wait to try it out
Lexxy 1.0 is here, and we are going to make it the Rails default.
Lexxy answers a question we鈥檝e been wrestling with at @37signals for years: what should we do with such a critical component of our apps? For a long time, we didn't see a clear path, but now it is here, and it is better than we anticipated. That makes this project especially meaningful to me.
Kudos to @bb for pushing for it, to @zoltanhosszu and Sam P茅ch猫r for making it very real, and to the many other folks who have contributed so far.
dev.37signals.com/lexxy-1-0
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