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These kinds of updates always have this romantic scenario of someone having Claude develop a presentation or something on their way to work between multiple dev
by royal__ 18d ago
These kinds of updates always have this romantic scenario of someone having Claude develop a presentation or something on their way to work between multiple devices, which actually feels a little sad and does not align with what happens in my life at all.
- temp_praneshp 18d agoweirdly enough, that aligns exactly with my life. Two years ago, I had no commute, and presentations were tedious ( i was NOT a good google slides user ), I kinda prefer this world for now
- kylecazar 18d ago"Plan a trip to Italy next month and book the flights" I see a version of that all the time and would never, ever do it.
- sudo_cowsay 18d agoExactly! Imagine if it booked like a 3000 dollar 1st class flight because it thought it was providing you with "the most comfortable and hospitable experience as possible."
- tipsytoad 18d agoidk I thought the same until I got personal amex support at work, now it’s my roofline on how useful/trusted an agent could be. Now I book all my travel through them, and it’s an absolute blessing
- gffrd 18d agoThese are modern infomercials. Concrete pains ("planning a vacation is hard!"), shallow solutions that don't stand up to real-world use, and, in the end, a promise left unfilfilled. (And a thing in your drawer that takes up space.)
- fernandotakai 18d agohonestly, one day i will understand why these guys go so hard on planning vacations. one of the best parts of vacations is actually planning it! trying to find restaurants, organizing your days, trying to fit activities -- that makes you look forward to your time off. really, i want to automate the boring parts of my life (did i really pay rent this month?) not the things that make me happy.
- robotresearcher 18d ago> one of the best parts of vacations is actually planning it For some. Others hate or fear it. For others it just feels like work.
- gffrd 18d agoImagine the fear these people will feel walking in to a vacation planned by … a ROBOT!
- willy_k 17d agoSocial media has fried some people’s brains so much that it is incredibly anxiety inducing to make many typically mundane or routine choices, for fear of missing / missing out on something.
- gffrd 18d agoI think they're grabbing at universally-understood frictions that people associate with pleasure or anxiety … or, most powerfully, identity. We all know the feeling of wanting to be successful, or to go on a great vacation. Showing these scenarios creates strong emotional response in the audience - we're now the people winning at work, going on a great vacation. This is especially important when you're selling something dull. See: insurance.
- pborenstein 18d ago"Find a primary care physician in my area who is taking new patients and accepts my insurance. Give me your top three candidates, and book an appointment within the next six weeks with your top choice." Claude: Would you like to go to Bermuda instead?
- ieie 18d agoThis is why nobody should be afraid of technologists. They tend to invent technology and never figure out where it truly belongs. Failing that - they’ll claim the world is ending.
- solarkraft 18d agoIt aligns with me pretty well. Not exactly presentations, but it’s great to be able to do stuff on the go when an idea or motivation strikes.
- browningstreet 18d agoI use Claude/opencode and Orca and Hermes across my vpses, Macbook, Linux, and iOS devices. This is exactly how I want to keep working.
- hobofan 18d agoYou are not the typical office worker.
- browningstreet 17d agoA lot of dev tools now support remote execution, even those used in corporate environments. And for orgs that need locked down dev instances under regulatory control, these tools fit that bill too. I don't think I'm operating outside of norms that are used across all kinds of industries. It may not be the most common config yet, but these tools are building for customer bases that exist.
- evanpurkhiser 18d agoWould be interested to hear more about your setup!
- browningstreet 17d agoVPS is production. Linux dev box is my local big box. Macbook just lets me move about and do iOS development. Orca lets me run agents either on linux box or locally on the macbook depending on how I'm feeling, and Orca handles all the worktrees & sub-agents for me (via Opencode). Everything runs in a tailscale network, ssh connects all the things. My github repos all have CONSTITUTION.md files that keep multi-agent dev grounded. Production runs trigger github actions that automatically check logs daily, file bug reports, etc. I launch Orca and literally just type "checking in" and the CONSTITUTION.md file governs the scanning of github issues and prioritization of which issues need to be addressed. Another process prioritizes and bundles them. When I type "checking in" the Orca worktree handles the launching of sub-agents that fix things. Occasionally I weigh in with an opinion or pick a recommendation. If I'm in the mood to pay attention I'll ask it to find another round of bugs and let's keep going. Often I just let it close after the first round. When I tell it "done?" it does a full regression and a production box review. Code auto-deploys to production twice/day. I don't regularly push to production manually. On Fridays the CONSTITUTION.md kicks off a strategy and roadmap review when I type "checking in". As I have ideas I add them to the roadmap in one of the worktrees. Generally nothing happens until they're reviewed on Fridays together, unless I push one manually.. which happens. Hermes runs on the production box. I have a few skills and quick commands that lets me check in on production runs and the status of things. It's read-only by design, basically my version of a dashboard. If I have a thought, idea, research link, or question it'll write to a github issue and we'll deal with it in the next check-in. Orca lets me do all this remotely from an iPhone, and I talk to Hermes via Telegram. I generally don't INITIATE new work using either of these. I report issues/ideas and let the process do the things. But I can, and have.. I just tend not to. The whole thing churns, and so my inclination to "jump in and do a thing" is less than before. My inclination now is to toss things into the machine and let the machine work the schedule. I'm at a point where I could easily automate 80% of this and do my manual things 1x/2x week and I think progress would stay steady. I'll get there at some point, but I like the level of engagement I'm participating in now. Occasionally I use Claude Code as a watchtower review of things, or do a wholesale code review, or do a review of logs. But deepseek is much better at building this machine -- I built something manually over time and through a ship of theseus process it got ugly. Deepseek reviewed the situation and wrote the CONSTITUTION.md and designed the processes independently. It favors deterministic scripts for process but launches them via LLM and monitors for exceptions; also, no memory system which also disqualifies Claude from being at the center of this. Memory plugins didn't work well because instructions start accumulating all through the chain of instruction files (AGENTS.md, memory, etc) and that gets very undeterministic very quickly. Instructions are written once, reviewed/audited intentionally.. it's best not to let LLMs learn and write their own dynamically (yet). I've since used it as a template for other projects I've started -- they work the same. Currently building the GTM agent that will handle all SEO, marketing, keywording, etc for my projects -- it'll be a significantly autonomous Hermes agent. Don't really need Claude for any of this and my Deepseek bill is $50-100/mo.
- idle_zealot 18d agoThis is a nightmare scenario to me. "Claude, prepare me a presentation on XYZ." I get to work, go straight to the meeting room, and pull up what it made to present. It's barely coherent nonsense. Lots of irrelevant details, buzz words, wrong charts or confusing phrasing. Obviously LLM output. I read it out. When I'm done, I get a question about one of Claude's incorrectly inferred details. The shame instantly kills me. This is a scenario I've seen play out with coworkers. Except that last part, instead of dying or owning up to the mistake of trusting LLM output they waffle. Their shame circuit is broken.
- InsideOutSanta 18d agoPowerPoint Karaoke used to be a fun distraction; now it's literally people's job.
- TutleCpt 18d agoWhy on earth would you present a presentation that you haven't reviewed ahead of time?
- ceejayoz 18d agoI wish I knew, but I've definitely seen it happen. "What does this bit mean?" "I dunno."
- Calazon 18d agoThat sounds incredibly frustrating. It's bad enough in code reviews, but is that approach to work being tolerated in meetings these days?
- mjrpes 18d agoWhy even have a meeting? That's just a waste of time when agents are much better at reviewing plans anyway. You don't even need presentations anymore. Executive officers can just create a review agent with a "special sauce" prompt (essential to justify their high salary) and auto sign off on a plan if it passes the crucial test: "is this plan good?" Finally we can have true business automation and people can go back to much more important things, like looking at KPI reports and being impressed or unimpressed.
- x187463 18d agoI've found basically all of the release presentations are completely irrelevant and seem to target a very narrow subset of the population. They're always reserving something like a restaurant or a sports venue or generating a new slide deck for their business meeting. Perhaps these companies would do better if they could make a use case for regular people. You know, the 90% of the folks out there working normal jobs and not spending infinite money. I don't think I know a single person who has made a restaurant reservation more than once or twice (mostly never) in their entire life. Maybe I'm the weirdo here, but I can't relate to any of these demonstrations.
- colingauvin 18d agoI'm probably about 90%ile income for my household but live in a HCoL area and have two children in daycare. I rent, don't own, and I have enough that I can buy a coffee without thinking, but will be sending my kids to public school, can't just up and go on a vacation. I make restaurant reservations 7-8 times a year? My wife and I go on dates and you simply aren't getting a table where I live if you don't. Fyi we typically spend $120 or so on those dinners.
- crisnoble 18d agoAnd does having an AI call the restaurant instead of you doing it sound cool to you?
- paulhebert 18d agoI’m not the person you asked but I’m also confused by this use case. Most restaurants have a web UI which is very simple and easy to use.
- ligne 18d agoIf I'm booking a restaurant I'll probably be discussing the date/time options with the people I'm going with, and I can't see how adding a chatbot to the mix is meant to help?
- IceDane 18d agoJust like every demo is some pathetic one shot trash game that nobody would play, or something equally inane.
- jameshart 18d agoBecause nobody actually knows what anybody else’s job consists of. But everyone is familiar with how jobs work in the ‘romcom job universe’ where workplace stakes are generally driven by ‘I have this really important make-or-break presentation due Friday!’ I suspect it’s because writers don’t normally have jobs and the only time they are ever in offices it’s to deliver a pitch for a project.
- skybrian 18d agoI'm retired and write code as a hobby, not presentations or docs, but it fits how I use exe.dev to make a code change. I will have a conversation with the AI, then say "Please go ahead" and close my laptop to do something else. Since I use web browsers exclusively for this, I can check on its progress from my phone, tablet, or laptop. (They have iOS and Android apps too, but I've never bothered to install them.)
- mrcwinn 18d agoI do this pretty regularly. It's great.
- hughw 18d agoSeriously a trillion dollar company with zero product management expertise.