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- Why do you need a reminder to buy gloves when you are holding them? - Why do you need price trackers for airbnb? It is not a superliquid market with daily pr
by louiereederson 9mo ago
- Why do you need a reminder to buy gloves when you are holding them?
- Why do you need price trackers for airbnb? It is not a superliquid market with daily price swings.
- Cataloguing your fridge requires taking pictures of everything you add and remove which seems... tedious. Just remember what you have?
- Can you not prepare for the next day by opening your calendar?
- If you have reminders for everything (responding to texts, buying gloves, whatever else is not important to you), don't you just push the problem of notification overload to reminder overload? Maybe you can get clawdbot to remind you to check your reminders. Better yet, summarize them.
- sownkun 9mo agoThis is how I perceive a lot of the AI being rammed down our throats: questionably useful.
- LogicFailsMe 9mo agoThat's because the loudest voices don't really get how the technology or the science works. They just know how to shout persuasively. I think AI is about to do the same thing to pair programming that full self-driving has done for driving. It will be a long time before it's perfect but it's already useful. I also think someone is going to make a Blockbuster quality movie with AI within a couple years and there will be much fretting of the brows rather than seeing the opportunity to improve the tooling here. But I'll make a more precise prediction for 2026. Through continual learning and other tricks that emerge throughout the year, LLMs will become more personalized with longer memories, continuing to make them even more of a killer consumer product than they already are. I just see too many people conversing with them right now to believe otherwise.
- joquarky 9mo ago> That's because the loudest voices don't really get how the technology or the science works. They just know how to shout persuasively. These people have taken over the industry in the past 10 years. They don't care anything about the tech or product quality. They talk smooth, loud, and fast so the leaders overlook their incompetence while creating a burden for the rest of the team. I had a spectacular burnout a few years ago because of these brogrammers and now I have to compete with them in what feels like a red queen's race where social skills are becoming far more important than technical skills to land a job. I'm tired.
- fragmede 9mo agoSocial skills to get my computer to do what I want still blows my mind. Or having to talk back to it. Claude said it couldn't do something, and the way around that was too tell it "yes you can". What a weird future we live in.
- skydhash 9mo agoWhat social skills? You can write in broken English and still have good results. It’s a statistical language , not a living being. No need for empathy, pleading, accusing, or manipulating. It transforms languages, any mapping from text to action was implemented by someone. And it would be way easier to have such mapping directly available.
- direwolf20 9mo agoIt transforms languages into the most likely human response. Humans are more likely to respond to rudeness with rejection.
- mananaysiempre 9mo agoClaude said it couldn't do something, and the way around that was too tell it "yes you can". >kill dragon With what? Your bare hands? >yes Congratulations! You have just vanquished a dragon with your bare hands! (Unbelievable, isn't it?)
- kridsdale3 9mo ago\> kill dragon -bash: kill: dragon: arguments must be process or job IDs \> sudo kill dragon -bash: Congratulations! You have just vanquished a dragon with your bare hands!
- polynomial 9mo agoSo, passwordless sudo, got it.
- adastra22 9mo ago> I think AI is about to do the same thing to pair programming that full self-driving has done for driving. Approximately nothing?
- LogicFailsMe 9mo agoSo if you're close to retirement, that curmudgeon schtick might work out for you. But otherwise, be prepared to learn some new things or you're going to go through a few things.
- adastra22 9mo agoThe point is that right now self driving cars hasn’t been very transformative. It might be, in future tense. But right now if your world has been turned upside down by self driving, you’re very much living in a bubble.
- LogicFailsMe 9mo agoOr you own a later model car with blind spot detection, automatic Lane keeping, self parking and a bunch of other AI/ML safety features that invisibly lower the cognitive load of driving. The real bubble is the United States as the global luddite with nukes. The rest of the world is continuing apace on every front while we desperately try to return to the previous century.
- wiml 9mo agoThat's not "full self driving" by any stretch of the imagination. Where are these goalposts again?
- LogicFailsMe 8mo agoMy supposed goal posts are whether AI is useful or not, not the brain farts of libertooniian nut jobs who had covid one too many times and destroyed their own high level mental function. I mean when the chief current libertoonian talking points are we should flood the internet with AI generated child porn to reduce pedophilia, that Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist, or that the most important decision your daughter faces right now is whether she should study to be an engineer or become a sex worker, they have exited the room of serious conversation and entered the insane asylum across the board. I wish we could ignore them but they have the Zeitgeist. Stupid Zeitgeist
- borroka 9mo agoI do not doubt that AI and AI-powered and -native applications will become part of the fabric of our personal and professional lives. What I don't understand is why, outside of "because I can", people need to automate parts of life I did not know the existence of. - Why, outside of edge cases, do people have to automate the payment of bills beyond the automatic cc processing? - How many times a month do they have to set up their barber appointment? It seems to me that the applications of Clawd and similar tools either automate trivial stuff or work on actions and circumstances that should not be there. As an example, the other day I had a doctor visit, and between filling forms online, filling other forms online, confirming three times I would have been there and that I filled the online forms, driving to the doctor's office, and waiting, I probably spent 2 hours of my time (the visit was 2 months after I asked for it, by the way). The visit lasted 5-7 minutes: the doctor did not have a look at the forms I filled out beforehand, and barely listened to what I was telling him during the visit. I worry that, since "AI" will do it, there will be more forms to be filled that nobody will read, more forms to be filled to confirm that AI or me or a guardian filled the forms, and longer wait times because AI will bombard our neurons with some entertainment. But what I want is a visit with a doctor who listens to me, they are not in a rush, and have my problem solved. If AI helps, it's great, but I don't want busy work done by AI, I don't want, because it is not needed, busy work at all.
- kridsdale3 9mo agoSounds like Brazil.
- borroka 9mo agoSunny coastal California
- LogicFailsMe 9mo agoI would love an AI to curate my feed to transition from enragement equals engagement to pure enchantment feeding me things it decides I would enjoy. And I think that's completely within the abilities of current models. It's just that it's less profitable than driving me into an endless doom scroll loop of despair. And that's just off the top of my head. AI is neither good or evil, but we've made some pretty poor choices deploying it.
- CrimsonCape 9mo agoQuestionably useful at the cost of personal computer components doubling. Unquestionably shafting the personal computer market.
- insane_dreamer 9mo agoYeah, a lot of these AI "uses" feel like solutions looking for a problem. It's the equivalent of me having to press a button on the steering wheel of my Tesla and say "Open Glovebox" and wait 1-2 seconds for the glove box to open (the wonders of technology!) instead of just reaching over and pressing a button to open the glovebox instantly (a button that Tesla removed because "voice-operated controls are cool!"). Or worse, when my wife wants to open the glovebox and I'm driving she has to ask me to press the button, say the voice activated command (which doesn't work well with her voice) and then it opens. Needless to say, we never use the glovebox.
- malfist 9mo agoI really appreciate your condensing of the AI problem. I think the only thing it's missing is that at least 5% of the time, when you tell it to open the glovebox it tells you it's already open and leaves it closed, or turns on your turn signals.
- HlessClaudesman 9mo agoWe have built a magic hammer that can make 100 houses in a second, but all the houses are slightly wonky, and 5% of their embedded systems are actively harmful.
- direwolf20 9mo agoand the houses are ant sized
- bandrami 9mo agoIt's like PHP won out after all...
- darkwater 9mo agoI understand your sentiment but nitpicking on this nonetheless: the passenger can easily open the glovebox from the touchscreen on their own.
- yoyohello13 9mo agoYeah clawdbot seems like a major nerd snipe for the “productivity porn” type people.
- dewey 9mo agoThat is most of the "productivity" bubble, with AI or not. You are trying to fit everything into tightly defined processes, categories and methodologies to not have to actually sit down and do the work.
- kccqzy 9mo ago> if you're engineer-brained like me, you gravitate towards scripts and playbooks Most people aren’t that engineer-brained like the author is. Me included; whatever the author does, it just doesn’t appeal to me.
- x365 9mo agoArtificially creating problems to justify the technology being used.
- i-blis 9mo agoVery much to the point. "Bots to remind one to check one's reminder" summarizes it all. Note that the tendency to feel overwhelmed is rather widespread, particularly among those who need to believe that what they do is of great import, even when it isn't.
- TiredOfLife 9mo ago[flagged]
- ulrashida 9mo agoNot the kindest take (and unlikely true).
- hamdingers 9mo agoThis is how billions of people across the planet manage their pantries. Get off this site and talk to real people more often.
- raincole 9mo agoBillions of people don't use calendar apps so they're useless; just remember your meetings. Billions of people don't use todo list apps so they're useless; just remember what to do. Billions of people don't use post-its apps so they're useless; just remember what you're going to write down. Billions of people don't have cars; just walk. You can dismiss any invention since industrial revolution with this logic.
- louiereederson 9mo agoThe point, as I noted below, is that this is an impractical solution. You can justify the value of any ridiculous invention by comparing it to a world-changing invention.
- hamdingers 9mo agoYou have soundly defeated that strawman, well done.
- trouble3968 9mo agoFunnily enough at least in my personal anecdotic case it works about like that. I do just remember when my meetings will be (or look up where the meeting was decided on), do try to remember what I had planned (sometimes I forget, but almost always for the better), and written notes are rare enough that pen and paper are sufficient. And also don't have a driver license. I don't think my case is exactly rare, even among softdev croud.
- rawgabbit 9mo agoHe says it is for better integration between his messages and his calendar. But this is already built-in with gmail/gcalendar. Clawdbot does take it one step further by scraping his texts and WhatsApp messages. Hmmm... I would just configure whatever is sending notifications to send to gmail so I don't need Clawdbot.
- jgalt212 9mo ago> Why do you need price trackers for airbnb? More importantly, can Clawdbot even reliably access these sites? The last time I tried to build a hotel price scraper, the scraping was easy. Getting the page to load (and get around bot detection) was hard.
- charcircuit 9mo agoYes, being on your own devices makes it not look like bots.
- jgalt212 9mo agoYes, and no in my experience.
- kccqzy 9mo agoThat’s why the author explains that the page loads in a real Google Chrome instance on a real Mac mini from the same residential IP as his other devices.
- jgalt212 9mo agoYou do know that bot blockers keep track of metrics besides user agent and IP address? Hotels and concert ticket selling websites use some of the most aggressive bot blockers out there.
- kccqzy 9mo agoI do. Most of these bot blockers block bots because of scale: these bots operate with superhuman speed and their traffic comes from all sorts of IP addresses. Tools like Anubis appear because such bot traffic dwarfs human traffic. And they typically have fake User-Agent headers set to a browser while their TLS/HTTP fingerprints would suggest they are made from curl or the requests library. This is different. There is no scale. The bot’s browsing session exactly replaces a human session. The browser is real.
- firasd 9mo agoIt's helpful to keep in mind that 'AI Twitter' is a bubble. Most people just don't have that many 'important' notes and calendar items. People saying 'Claude is now managing my life!11' are like gearheads messing with their carburetor or (closer to this analogy) people who live out of Evernote or Roam All that said I've been thinking for a while that tool use and discrete data storage like documents/lists etc will unlock a lot of potential in AI over just having a chatbot manipulating tokens limited to a particular context window. But personal productivity is just one slice of such use cases
- atemerev 9mo agoI have really severe ADHD. Agents are lifesaving to me. Literally.
- order-matters 9mo agosounds like they want to be a puppet for their own life
- ghostly_s 9mo ago- Why do you need a reminder to buy gloves when you are holding them? Had to go back because I skimmed over this screenshot. I have to presume it's because this guy who books $600 Airbnb's for vacation wants to save a couple bucks by ordering them on Amazon.
- kevmo314 9mo agoWouldn't it be faster to buy them on Amazon then?
- kridsdale3 9mo agoAnd spend $600 in Anthropic credits to do so.
- lanakei 9mo agoIt doesn't cost $600 in Anthropic credits though. It probably costs a few cents (definitely <$1). I do understand the general point you're trying to make, but you can't overestimate the cost of tokens by a few orders of magnitude and still expect the logic to hold.
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- scottyah 9mo agoOr the in-store stock doesn't have the right size/color.
- ryukoposting 9mo ago> Cataloguing your fridge requires taking pictures of everything you add and remove which seems... tedious. Just remember what you have? Yeah, the sane solution here is much simpler. Put a magnet whiteboard. When you put something into the fridge, add it to the whiteboard. When you take something out, you erase that item from the whiteboard.
- clickety_clack 9mo agoIsn’t the sane solution to just generally have an idea what’s in there, and take a look if you’re not sure?
- ryukoposting 9mo agoTrust me, if "just remember it" worked for me, many things about my life would be different. Not just the whiteboard on the fridge.
- scottyah 9mo agoThen remember to carry that whiteboard with you just in case you get off work early and decide to hit the grocery store.
- ryukoposting 9mo agoGood thing the grocery store gives me a piece of paper with a list of the things I bought.
- scottyah 9mo agoI really don't think the pain point is at home managing inventory, it's when you're at the store and want to now what you have. Receipts aren't going to help you when perusing the isles unless you have a very strange shopping flow.
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- ribosometronome 9mo ago>Why do you need a reminder to buy gloves when you are holding them? Am I missing this in the article? Do you mean the shoes he's holding? He explains it immediately. >when i visited REI this weekend to find running shoes for my partner, i took a picture of the shoe and sent it to clawdbot to remind myself to buy them later in a different color not available in store. the todo item clawdbot created was exceptionally detailed—pulling out the brand, model, and size—and even adding the product listing URL it found on the REI website.
- louiereederson 9mo agoYes you are missing the picture where Brandon asks Linguini to add a reminder to buy a pair of Arc'Teryx gloves, which Brandon is holding in his hands.
- subroutine 9mo agoThe image and the text don't match. The image is talking about gloves, but in the narrative he says "when i visited REI this weekend to find running shoes for my partner, i took a picture of the shoe and sent it to clawdbot to remind myself to buy them later in a different color not available in store."
- polynomial 9mo agoI mean that's fine for people who can remember what they are holding, but not all of us can do that.
- cactusplant7374 9mo agoWouldn't it have been better if Clawdbot continued to monitor the website for when it came back in stock and snipe purchased it as soon as it did? Can't we move beyond lists of things and take action?
- angiolillo 9mo ago> Cataloguing your fridge requires taking pictures of everything you add and remove which seems... tedious. Just remember what you have? I agree that removing items and taking pictures takes more effort than it saves, but I would use a simpler solution if one existed because it turns out I cannot remember what we have. When my partner goes to the store I get periodic text messages from them asking how much X we have and to check I look in the fridge or pantry in the kitchen and then go downstairs to the fridge or pantry in the basement. > Can you not prepare for the next day by opening your calendar? In the morning I typically check my work calendar, my personal calendar, the shared family calendar, and the kids' various school calendars. It would be convenient to have these aggregated. (Copying events or sending new events to all of the calendars works well until I forget and one slips through the cracks...) > If you have reminders for everything (responding to texts, buying gloves, whatever else is not important to you), don't you just push the problem of notification overload to reminder overload? Yes, this is the problem I have. This doesn't look like a suitable solution for me, but I understand the need.
- rezonant 9mo ago> In the morning I typically check my work calendar, my personal calendar, the shared family calendar, and the kids' various school calendars. It would be convenient to have these aggregated. (Copying events or sending new events to all of the calendars works well until I forget and one slips through the cracks...) But... calendar apps already let you aggregate your calendars into a single view. Even if you have them on separate accounts (or some other impediment), you can easily share a read-only version of, say, your work calendar with your personal account so that you can have them combined in the morning.
- angiolillo 9mo ago> you can easily share a read-only version of, say, your work calendar with your personal account so that you can have them combined in the morning. If only it was that easy! I'm not allowed to share content to or from my work calendar for security reasons. The school and camp calendars are a mix of PDFs and hand-written websites -- a neighbor wrote a scraper to extract the information from a few of them into a caldav at one point but it ended up being even flakier than copying the relevant bits by hand. There's no technical barrier to consolidating my personal calendar with the various family / neighborhood calendars but in practice I have to hide most of the other calendars because the volume of irrelevant events is just too large, so I end up just copying over the relevant events to a personal calendar.
- protocolture 9mo ago> Why do you need price trackers for airbnb? It is not a superliquid market with daily price swings. I dont know about AirBNB specifically, but I know local hotels I have dealt with can swing by 1000 bucks. Especially if theres a conference or something in town. Often it will swing back just before they risk the room going unoccupied. I have no idea if AirBNB allows similar behavior but I would be surprised if it didnt.
- heavyset_go 9mo agoImagine letting an LLM plan your day and it just decides to exclude things, shift stuff around and make it up wholesale. If I wanted a buggy and flawed planning system that will certainly cause problems in the future, I'd start sticking post-it notes on a wall calendar and pray they don't fall off.
- paulddraper 9mo ago> Why do you need price trackers for airbnb? It is not a superliquid market with daily price swings. That was just an example. Could be airline tickets, Ebay/craigslist items, deals from brands you like, etc.
- what 9mo agoPretty bad example then.
- paulddraper 9mo agoYou'd been surprised. https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/1168 https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/1168
- bandrami 9mo agoIt's reminiscent of a few years ago when people were talking about how NFTs could open your front door, turn on your car, sign a contract, or get you in to a concert, all of which are true, but there currently exist perfectly good ways to do all of those things right now.
- dns_snek 9mo ago> Cataloguing your fridge requires taking pictures of everything you add and remove which seems... tedious. Just remember what you have? I have ADHD, I forget where I put things down 5 seconds ago and I forget what's in my fridge all the time. It's genuinely a big problem for me because I let things expire, buy things I already have, and just accumulate cruft that necessitates a big fridge clean once every few months which makes me feel bad about all the things I'm throwing away. In an ideal world I want an up to date inventory on everything that's in my fridge with expiration reminders. I'd love for someone to solve this problem in a non-tedious way. Taking pictures of everything would indeed be tedious.