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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
Oh totally - I'm definitely not saying that they made the decision to cater to non-dev users, just that it's a possibility. Totally agree with you that at the end of the day, we haven't the foggiest idea.
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
> "Read 2 files" is fine as a progress indicator but is too vague for anything else. "Read foo.cpp and bar.h" takes almost the same amount of visual space, but fulfills both purposes. Now this is a good, thoughtful re
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
Right, I understand why people prefer this. The point was that the post I was responding to was making pretty broad claims about how removing information is bad but then ignoring the fact that they in fact prefer a solution that removes a l
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
> PM2> Anthropic knows better than this developer. The developer is probably wrong. Nope! Not what I said. I specifically said that I don't know if Anthropic is using the information they have well. Please at least have the court
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
There are a lot of Claude Code users who aren't software developers. Maybe they've decided that group is the one they want to cater to? I recognize that won't be a popular decision with the HN crowd, but that doesn't mea
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
But you have no idea if they've convened user study or focus groups, right? I'll just reiterate my initial point that the author of the post and the people commenting here have no idea what information Anthropic is working with. I
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
I don't think it's fair to say that product managers hate it. There are a lot of product managers and a lot of kinds of software. I've worked on complex enterprise software and have added enormous amounts of complexity into m
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
Also product manager here. Not at all cynically, this is classic product management - simplify by removing information that is useful to some users but not others. We shouldn't be over it by now. It's good to think carefully about
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
I've been on the other side of this as a PM, and it's tough because you can't always say what you want to, which is roughly: This product is used by a lot of users with a range of use cases. I understand this change has made
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
I left my job as a PM a couple of years ago to start acquiring small e-commerce brands that sell on Amazon. I'm currently running those, and mid-acquisition on one. Because they're relatively low-effort (Amazon is terrible for sel
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
> Things that can cleanly be expressed in 1-2 sentences are whole paragraphs Funny, I don't associate that with AI. I associate it with having to write papers of a specific length in high school. (Though at least those were usually
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
> The reason is simple once you see it, but it took me months to figure out. When each task takes less time, you don't do fewer tasks. You do more tasks. > AI reduces the cost of production but increases the cost of coordination,
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
> Meanwhile AI can't be trusted to give me a recipe for potato soup. This just isn't true any more. Outside of work, my most common use case for LLMs is probably cooking. I used to frequently second guess them, but no longer -
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Handing My Daily Tasks Off to Claude Code(theautomatedoperator.substack.com)
2 points by idopmstuff 8mo ago|1 comments
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
Yeah, I saw that announcement but still can't figure out what the actual impact is - doesn't change anything for me (my non-skill slash commands still work).
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
It's part of the Claude Code harness. I honestly haven't thought at all about security related to it; it's just a nice convenience to trigger a commonly run process.
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
I have been using Claude Code to automate a bunch of my business tasks, and I set up slash commands for each of them. Each slash command starts by reading from a .md file of instructions. I asked Claude how this is different from skills and
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
They only run locally on my machine, and they use properly scoped API credentials. Is there some theoretical risk that someone could get their hands on my Gemini API key? Probably, but it'd be very tough and not a particularly compell
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
That's the place! The most fun one is this, which creates listing images for my products: https://theautomatedoperator.substack.com/p/opus-45-codes-ge... More recently, I'm using Claude Code to handle my inve
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
This is me, but for writing code. I own a business, and I use Claude Code to build internal tools for myself. Don't care about code quality; never seen the code. I care if the tools do the things I want them to do, and they verifiably
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
As a product manager, this feels like they're in the pretty typical B2B SaaS trap of building the stuff that the people who pay for the product insist they need but the people using the product don't necessarily want, so they&#x27
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by idopmstuff 8mo ago
I find takes like this very strange. Whether or not it gives the correct information, it's clearly not designed to give false information to factual queries. The design of it is based on the intention of the people creating it, not the
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Trading My Vibe Coded App for an AI Analyst: A Claude Code Case Study(theautomatedoperator.substack.com)
1 points by idopmstuff 8mo ago|0 comments
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by idopmstuff 9mo ago
Ah, very cool - I'll take a gander in the morning.
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by idopmstuff 9mo ago
Sure, and I do my own accounting in Google Sheets. Each brand that I own is pretty simple, so this isn't that hard (and it's important to me that I do it myself to maintain context on my businesses). That's why an LLM is good
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by idopmstuff 9mo ago
Maybe, though you might be surprised - first Upwork guy I hired did insanely bad work that was obviously horribly wrong, and I ended up getting it all refunded. But in any case, tremendous errors won't actually cause me big problems, b
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by idopmstuff 9mo ago
I own a number of brands that sell on Amazon, and I've always used an app called HighFive that automatically sends the email you've almost certainly seen that asks you to rate something you bought (without it you have to click a b
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Can AI Do My Bookkeeping?(theautomatedoperator.substack.com)
2 points by idopmstuff 9mo ago|7 comments
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by idopmstuff 9mo ago
It'd be (insert noun) and the first one is far and away the best but on the big picture you are absolutely correct that it is fantastic. Children of Time (first one) is maybe my favorite book ever.
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by idopmstuff 9mo ago
> He’s not wrong, but it does make me wonder: even if the code was not the point, what do you do if it was the thing that brought you joy? You still write the code! We do lots of things that could be done more efficiently. People build t

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