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I deleted vscode and replaced with a hyper personal dashboard that combines information from everywhere. I have a news feed, work tab for managing issues/PRs,

I deleted vscode and replaced with a hyper personal dashboard that combines information from everywhere. I have a news feed, work tab for managing issues/PRs, markdown editor with folders, calendar, AI powered buttons all over the place (I click a button, it does something interesting with Claude code I can't do programmatically). Why don't I share it? Because it's highly personal, others would find it doesn't fit their own workflow.

skyberrys 6mo ago
This sounds chaotic and fun.
- gear54rus 6mo ago
  Sounds more like satire.
  - skyberrys 6mo ago
    I am easily caught by satire and I have a weakness for buttons.
acessoproibido 6mo ago
I would still be interested even if my personal workflow is different. These things can be very inspirational!
Chris2048 6mo ago
Wdym by "it does something interesting with Claude code I can't do programmatically"?
- graeber_28927 6mo ago
  I'm guessing it's not a hard coded function, the button invokes. Instead it spawns a claude code session with perhaps some oredefined prompts, maybe attaches logs, and let's claude code "go wild". In that sense the button's effect wouldn't be programmatical, it would be nondeterministic. Not OP, just guessing.
- bena 6mo ago
  It means he has a girlfriend. And she goes to a different school. In Canada. You've never heard of it.
  - vladostman 6mo ago
    Perfect analogy actually
- actionfromafar 6mo ago
  I have had the thought to write little "programs" in text or markdown for things which would just a chore to maintain as a traditional program. (I guess we call them "skills" now?) Think scraping a page which might change its output a bit every so often. It the volume or cadence is low, it may not be worth it to create a real program to do it.
sputknick 6mo ago
This is probably my favorite gain from AI assisted coding: the bar for "who cares about this app" has dropped to a minimum of 1 to make sense. I recently built an app for grocery shopping that is specific to how and where I shop, would be useless to anyone other than my wife. Took me 20 minutes. This is the next frontier: I have a random manual process I do every week, I'll write an app that does it for me.
- MeetingsBrowser 6mo ago
  What exactly were you bale to build in 20 minutes?
  - TeMPOraL 6mo ago
    Me, and photo editor tool to semi-automate a task of digitizing a few dozen badly scanned old physical photos for a family photo book. Needed something that could auto-straighen and auto-crop the photos with ability to quickly make manual adjustments, Gemini single-shotted me a working app that, after few minutes of back-and-forth as I used it and complained about the process, gained full four-point cropping (arbitrary lines) with snapping to lines detected in image content for minute adjustments. Before that, it single-shot an app for me where I can copy-paste a table (or a subsection of it) from Excel and print it out perfectly aligned on label sticker paper; it does instantly what used to take me an hour each time, when I had to fight Microsoft Word (mail merge) and my Canon printer's settings to get the text properly aligned on labels, and not cut off because something along the way decided to scale content or add margins or such. Neither of these tools is immediately usable for others. They're not meant to, and that's fine.
  - stavros 6mo ago
    I built a small app to emit a 15 kHz beep (that most adults can't hear) every ten minutes, so I can keep time when I'm getting a massage. It took ten minutes, really, but I guess it's in the spirit of the question. For 20 minutes of time, I had a simple TTS/STT app that allows me to have a voice conversation with my AI assistant.
  - sedawkgrep 6mo ago
kylecazar 6mo ago
... how did that replace vscode? Do you never open a code editor?
- headcanon 6mo ago
  Kind of. I'm finding that my terminal window in VSCode went from being at the bottom 1/3rd of my screen to filling the whole screen a lot of the time, replacing the code editor window. If AI is writing all of your code for you based on your chat session, a lot of editing capabilities aren't needed as much. While I wouldn't want to get rid of it entirely, I'd say an AI-native IDE would deemphasize code editing in favor of higher-level controls.
skydhash 6mo ago
> I deleted vscode and replaced with a hyper personal dashboard that combines information from everywhere. Emacs with Hyperbole[0]? [0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/ https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/
- Igrom 6mo ago
  You can't mention Hyperbole and not say how you use it. I did not get past the "include the occasional action button in org-mode" phase.
  - neonnoodle 6mo ago
    actually the rules say that no one can ever explain what Hyperbole is for
EGreg 6mo ago
Well, I’m sharing it. If someone wants an early preview or to work w me on this, the calendly link is on the site: https://safebots.ai https://safebots.ai But it requires A LOT of work to make sure it is actually safe for people and organizations. And no, an .md file saying “PLEASE DONT PWN ME, KTHX” isn’t it at all. “Alignment” is only part of the equation. If you’re not afraid to dive into rabbitholes, here is how it works: http://community.safebots.ai/t/layer-4-browser-extensions-personal-automation-and-web-trust/28 http://community.safebots.ai/t/layer-4-browser-extensions-pe...
- snackerblues 6mo ago
  https://safebots.ai/architecture.pdf https://safebots.ai/architecture.pdf https://community.safebots.ai/t/the-safebox-stack/31 https://community.safebots.ai/t/the-safebox-stack/31 https://community.safebots.ai/t/safecloud-governance-due-process-in-a-distributed-network/35 https://community.safebots.ai/t/safecloud-governance-due-pro... https://community.safebots.ai/t/safebox-execution-and-communications-capabilities/21 https://community.safebots.ai/t/safebox-execution-and-commun... This all reads, to put it politely, like it's being written by someone who is not all there and being convinced by letting AI write everything that they have a coherent idea. Or just trying to put a bunch of buzzwords together to get people to buy something. Do you have any code or actual demos of "your" "work" to share? Your homepage's "See It in Action" section is just more AI slop articles in video form. https://community.qbix.com/t/how-and-why-safebots-will-replace-ai-agents/791 https://community.qbix.com/t/how-and-why-safebots-will-repla... And you've got multiple slopsites filled with what I assume is SEO spam? Which I'm now participating in by linking. Great. https://qbix.com/ecosystem#TOKEN https://qbix.com/ecosystem#TOKEN And crypto tokens. Of course.
  - 72deluxe 6mo ago
    I looked at the architecture.pdf and it made zero sense. It was a lot of buzzwords. I am honestly confused.
camdenreslink 6mo ago
Technical people (which is by far the minority of people out there) building personal apps to scratch an itch is one thing. But based on the hype (100x productivity!), there should be a deluge of high quality mobile apps, Saas offerings, etc. There is a huge profit incentive to create quality software at a low price. Yet, the majority of new apps and services that I see are all AI ecosystem stuff. Wrappers around LLMs, or tools to use LLMs to create software. But I’m not really seeing the output of this process (net new software).
- oro44 6mo ago
  Well it’s mostly explained by the fact that most people lack imagination and can’t hold enough concepts about a particular experience to think about how to re-imagine it, to begin with. Oh and sadly, llm’s are useless for the imaginative part too. Shucks eh.
  - peteforde 6mo ago
    I share this particular cynicism. I have a list of ideas a mile long that gets longer every day, and LLMs help me burn through that list significantly faster. However, the older I get, the more distraught I get that most people I meet "IRL" are simply not sitting on a list of problems they simply lack time to solve. I have... a lot of emotions around this, but it seems to be the norm. If someone doesn't see or experience problems and intuitively start working out how they would fix them if they only had time, the notion that they could pair program effectively ideas that they didn't previously have with an LLM is absurd.
    - skeledrew 6mo ago
      Also one of those with a mile-long ideas list that I can finally now burn through. I gotta say, it feels good!
    - oro44 6mo ago
      Yeah and frankly the innovation would occur irrespective of llm’s. Would it be harder? Sure. And perhaps the difficulty adds an additional cost of passion being a necessary condition to embark on the innovation. Passion leads to really good stuff. My personal fear is we get landfill sites of junk software produced. To some extent it should be costly to convert an idea to a concept - the cost being thinking carefully so what you put out there is somewhat legible.
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tbeseda 6mo ago
Sorry, I'm not sure how this relates to the content of the article. Sounds like an interesting experience, but this is an analysis of the Python ecosystem pre+post ChatGPT.
headcanon 6mo ago
I've been getting close to that myself, I've been using VSCode + Claude Code as my "control plane" for a bunch of projects but the current interface is getting unwieldly. I've tried superset + conductor and those have some improvements but are opinionated towards a specific set of workflows. I do think there would be value in sharing your setup at some point if you get around to it, I think a lot of builders are in the same boat and we're all trying to figure out what the right interface for this is (or at least right for us personally).

skyberrys 6mo ago

This sounds chaotic and fun.

gear54rus 6mo ago
Sounds more like satire.
- skyberrys 6mo ago
  I am easily caught by satire and I have a weakness for buttons.

acessoproibido 6mo ago

I would still be interested even if my personal workflow is different. These things can be very inspirational!

Chris2048 6mo ago

Wdym by "it does something interesting with Claude code I can't do programmatically"?

graeber_28927 6mo ago
I'm guessing it's not a hard coded function, the button invokes. Instead it spawns a claude code session with perhaps some oredefined prompts, maybe attaches logs, and let's claude code "go wild". In that sense the button's effect wouldn't be programmatical, it would be nondeterministic. Not OP, just guessing.
bena 6mo ago
It means he has a girlfriend. And she goes to a different school. In Canada. You've never heard of it.
- vladostman 6mo ago
  Perfect analogy actually
actionfromafar 6mo ago
I have had the thought to write little "programs" in text or markdown for things which would just a chore to maintain as a traditional program. (I guess we call them "skills" now?) Think scraping a page which might change its output a bit every so often. It the volume or cadence is low, it may not be worth it to create a real program to do it.

sputknick 6mo ago

This is probably my favorite gain from AI assisted coding: the bar for "who cares about this app" has dropped to a minimum of 1 to make sense. I recently built an app for grocery shopping that is specific to how and where I shop, would be useless to anyone other than my wife. Took me 20 minutes. This is the next frontier: I have a random manual process I do every week, I'll write an app that does it for me.

MeetingsBrowser 6mo ago
What exactly were you bale to build in 20 minutes?
- TeMPOraL 6mo ago
  Me, and photo editor tool to semi-automate a task of digitizing a few dozen badly scanned old physical photos for a family photo book. Needed something that could auto-straighen and auto-crop the photos with ability to quickly make manual adjustments, Gemini single-shotted me a working app that, after few minutes of back-and-forth as I used it and complained about the process, gained full four-point cropping (arbitrary lines) with snapping to lines detected in image content for minute adjustments. Before that, it single-shot an app for me where I can copy-paste a table (or a subsection of it) from Excel and print it out perfectly aligned on label sticker paper; it does instantly what used to take me an hour each time, when I had to fight Microsoft Word (mail merge) and my Canon printer's settings to get the text properly aligned on labels, and not cut off because something along the way decided to scale content or add margins or such. Neither of these tools is immediately usable for others. They're not meant to, and that's fine.
- stavros 6mo ago
  I built a small app to emit a 15 kHz beep (that most adults can't hear) every ten minutes, so I can keep time when I'm getting a massage. It took ten minutes, really, but I guess it's in the spirit of the question. For 20 minutes of time, I had a simple TTS/STT app that allows me to have a voice conversation with my AI assistant.
- sedawkgrep 6mo ago

kylecazar 6mo ago

... how did that replace vscode? Do you never open a code editor?

headcanon 6mo ago
Kind of. I'm finding that my terminal window in VSCode went from being at the bottom 1/3rd of my screen to filling the whole screen a lot of the time, replacing the code editor window. If AI is writing all of your code for you based on your chat session, a lot of editing capabilities aren't needed as much. While I wouldn't want to get rid of it entirely, I'd say an AI-native IDE would deemphasize code editing in favor of higher-level controls.

skydhash 6mo ago

> I deleted vscode and replaced with a hyper personal dashboard that combines information from everywhere. Emacs with Hyperbole[0]? [0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/ https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/

Igrom 6mo ago
You can't mention Hyperbole and not say how you use it. I did not get past the "include the occasional action button in org-mode" phase.
- neonnoodle 6mo ago
  actually the rules say that no one can ever explain what Hyperbole is for

EGreg 6mo ago

Well, I’m sharing it. If someone wants an early preview or to work w me on this, the calendly link is on the site: https://safebots.ai https://safebots.ai But it requires A LOT of work to make sure it is actually safe for people and organizations. And no, an .md file saying “PLEASE DONT PWN ME, KTHX” isn’t it at all. “Alignment” is only part of the equation. If you’re not afraid to dive into rabbitholes, here is how it works: http://community.safebots.ai/t/layer-4-browser-extensions-personal-automation-and-web-trust/28 http://community.safebots.ai/t/layer-4-browser-extensions-pe...

snackerblues 6mo ago
https://safebots.ai/architecture.pdf https://safebots.ai/architecture.pdf https://community.safebots.ai/t/the-safebox-stack/31 https://community.safebots.ai/t/the-safebox-stack/31 https://community.safebots.ai/t/safecloud-governance-due-process-in-a-distributed-network/35 https://community.safebots.ai/t/safecloud-governance-due-pro... https://community.safebots.ai/t/safebox-execution-and-communications-capabilities/21 https://community.safebots.ai/t/safebox-execution-and-commun... This all reads, to put it politely, like it's being written by someone who is not all there and being convinced by letting AI write everything that they have a coherent idea. Or just trying to put a bunch of buzzwords together to get people to buy something. Do you have any code or actual demos of "your" "work" to share? Your homepage's "See It in Action" section is just more AI slop articles in video form. https://community.qbix.com/t/how-and-why-safebots-will-replace-ai-agents/791 https://community.qbix.com/t/how-and-why-safebots-will-repla... And you've got multiple slopsites filled with what I assume is SEO spam? Which I'm now participating in by linking. Great. https://qbix.com/ecosystem#TOKEN https://qbix.com/ecosystem#TOKEN And crypto tokens. Of course.
- 72deluxe 6mo ago
  I looked at the architecture.pdf and it made zero sense. It was a lot of buzzwords. I am honestly confused.

camdenreslink 6mo ago

Technical people (which is by far the minority of people out there) building personal apps to scratch an itch is one thing. But based on the hype (100x productivity!), there should be a deluge of high quality mobile apps, Saas offerings, etc. There is a huge profit incentive to create quality software at a low price. Yet, the majority of new apps and services that I see are all AI ecosystem stuff. Wrappers around LLMs, or tools to use LLMs to create software. But I’m not really seeing the output of this process (net new software).

oro44 6mo ago
Well it’s mostly explained by the fact that most people lack imagination and can’t hold enough concepts about a particular experience to think about how to re-imagine it, to begin with. Oh and sadly, llm’s are useless for the imaginative part too. Shucks eh.
- peteforde 6mo ago
  I share this particular cynicism. I have a list of ideas a mile long that gets longer every day, and LLMs help me burn through that list significantly faster. However, the older I get, the more distraught I get that most people I meet "IRL" are simply not sitting on a list of problems they simply lack time to solve. I have... a lot of emotions around this, but it seems to be the norm. If someone doesn't see or experience problems and intuitively start working out how they would fix them if they only had time, the notion that they could pair program effectively ideas that they didn't previously have with an LLM is absurd.
  - skeledrew 6mo ago
    Also one of those with a mile-long ideas list that I can finally now burn through. I gotta say, it feels good!
  - oro44 6mo ago
    Yeah and frankly the innovation would occur irrespective of llm’s. Would it be harder? Sure. And perhaps the difficulty adds an additional cost of passion being a necessary condition to embark on the innovation. Passion leads to really good stuff. My personal fear is we get landfill sites of junk software produced. To some extent it should be costly to convert an idea to a concept - the cost being thinking carefully so what you put out there is somewhat legible.

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tbeseda 6mo ago

Sorry, I'm not sure how this relates to the content of the article. Sounds like an interesting experience, but this is an analysis of the Python ecosystem pre+post ChatGPT.

headcanon 6mo ago

I've been getting close to that myself, I've been using VSCode + Claude Code as my "control plane" for a bunch of projects but the current interface is getting unwieldly. I've tried superset + conductor and those have some improvements but are opinionated towards a specific set of workflows. I do think there would be value in sharing your setup at some point if you get around to it, I think a lot of builders are in the same boat and we're all trying to figure out what the right interface for this is (or at least right for us personally).