Funny he said "Good APIs matter more than ever". My software for one these past few weeks has been my mega archive project, making an APIs & UIs out of 50+ providers whether they like it or not. I'm calling it clump chart. I even got into my turbotax TaxML files.
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#62This was really interesting, but I admit I bumped on this throwaway detail: > Our sleep consultant's plan arrived as a PDF full of conditional logic: wake windows, nap caps, what to do when a nap fails Every so often, you get a glimpse into a whole world you never knew existed.
> Every so often, you get a glimpse into a whole world you never knew existed. I had no idea that people did this. This sounds expensive. Just like other people have no idea that we (Scandinavia) let babies sleep outside in a baby carriage wrapped in a tiny sleeping bag. Fresh air is awesome. Cold air is even better. This works for some babies and is not universal in any way.
Awesome. How cold?
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should care more about fiber than any of the others if health is your goal.
I'll make sure and let my GP know he was wrong.
Snark aside, your GP took one module on nutrition in medical school, years ago.
Doctors are not experts in nutrition.
Most modern western diets lack fibre the most so eating more fibre is a sensible recommendation for basically everyone.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll make sure and let my GP know he was wrong.
Snark aside, your GP took one module on nutrition in medical school, years ago. Doctors are not experts in nutrition. Most modern western diets lack fibre the most so eating more fibre is a sensible recommendation for basically everyone.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
How are you counting calories from a 1-line description of your meal? Surely that’s not even close to accurate.
A typical (in fact, the modal) line from the database, which goes back to April, is "oyakadon 1/2c rice, 2 thighs, 1/2 breast, 2 eggs, bunch broccolini, std oyakadon broth", and the model works out for itself that these are average-sized thighs and breast (boneless and skinless, because it's oyakadon). "std oyakadon broth" is a reference to a "house recipe", of which there's a side database, each costed by GPT5. Ther…
You can actually get just as good results for packaged food if you just allow the agent to use a web search tool & keep a growing local database of "known food items". I did the same for a while, but it was quite expensive (this was a while back with less powerful models and required a bit of orchestration to make it reliable)
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#66Genuine question: how will this "software for one" outlive its creator? I realize that if it were truly intended for just one user, it wouldn't matter, but in this specific case, the software is used by family members, so...
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#67Things I've built in the last month or so: * A personal music player for Apple Music with an embedded agent loop, so I can say things like "I'm going to work in the wood shop, play woodworking-appropriate music and keep the playlist full and non-repeating indefinitely". * A calorie/protein tracker that takes 1-liner summaries of meals, resolves them to macros with GPT5 calls, and tracks them in SQLite. * A macOS menu…
> A personal music player for Apple Music with an embedded agent loop, so I can say things like "I'm going to work in the wood shop, play woodworking-appropriate music and keep the playlist full and non-repeating indefinitely". how is AI (or a human for that matter) supposed to know what “woodworking-appropriate music is”? I had the same thoughts when spotify released their “let AI make a playlist for you”. Like, we…
> how is AI (or a human for that matter) supposed to know what “woodworking-appropriate music is”?
It doesn't, but you'll believe it is because that's what you asked for. It's not like you have a solid test for what it is yourself
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#69This mitigates problems with LLMs' low quality code. For a single user, the bar is much lower. The app doesn't have to have all the features that work for everyone's edge cases, implemented in a way that other devs can maintain. It only needs to be good enough for one user, and can be discarded and recreated when it gets too messy.
> can be discarded and recreated when it gets too messy.
That's the result of poor quality, how is wasting time redoing an app mitigate itself?
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#70Clay Shirkey has a great article from 2004 about this called Situated Software.