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Re: Show HN: Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme

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Post by simonbw »

dontwordle wrote: post #8
jadengeller wrote: post #7

this is higher quality than i expected given the very ai design might be worth trying to tweak to look less like the default ai theme cute overall tho!

That's good feedback. Are you referring to the home page specifically? I spent most of my time on the puzzle mechanics and just getting the difficulty right.

The puzzle pages also give pretty strong AI vibes to me. I think it just reminds me what I've gotten from Claude when I let it decide on design.

Some of the specifics that come to mind:

- the use of emojis instead of icons

- the text content largely sounds like it's written by Claude. This is a big one and it's everywhere: the names of the games, the descriptions, the status texts, basically every single piece of text that I've read.

- the fact that text is being used for some things at all feels a bit Claude-y, like the "Today's result: pending" status or "Vibes are perfected. Well done."

- a lot of the color scheme feels AI somehow. It's interesting, because it's not like the colors are wrong or anything, they somehow just feel like "default" LLM colors

- same thing with the typography

Re: Show HN: Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme

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Post by dontwordle »

simonbw wrote: post #11
dontwordle wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's good feedback. Are you referring to the home page specifically? I spent most of my time on the puzzle mechanics and just getting the difficulty right.

The puzzle pages also give pretty strong AI vibes to me. I think it just reminds me what I've gotten from Claude when I let it decide on design. Some of the specifics that come to mind: - the use of emojis instead of icons - the text content largely sounds like it's written by Claude. This is a big one and it's everywhere: the names of the games, the descriptions, the status texts, basically every single piece of tex…

Yeah it's definitely a mix of AI and me haha. The names, color schemes, and status texts are good callouts. The emojis I actually introduced to start to have a theme across games, though I didn't put them in the org chart game. A lot of the copy was written by AI, and then I didn't like the output and changed it.

I appreciate the feedback that it felt off. That's what matters in the end. Thanks for the taking the time to share this.

Re: Show HN: Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme

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Post by 0cf8612b2e1e »

cbarrick wrote: post #4
FatherOfCurses wrote: post #2

One of these games involves assembling the perfect office layout for a RTO. A friend of mine works for a major corporation that recently enacted a 100% RTO mandate. I used to work there too, and knowing what I know about their operations, I am willing to bet that probably 75% of the workforce in their offices are going to spend 100% of official work time on Zoom calls. They own offices all across the company and oper…

I know I'm in the minority, but WFO works great for me. My office is in walking distance of my home. I get great office perks (lunch, coffee, quality meeting rooms, good desk and workspace). And having a second space for work that is not my home is great for my mental health and WLB. All of my meetings are still video conferences. Doesn't move the needle for me. I choose to be in office 5 days a week even though only…

Who still has good offices? Seems like the world is steaming full speed towards miserable shared hotelling desk situations.

Re: Show HN: Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme

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Post by jasonpeacock »

cbarrick wrote: post #4
FatherOfCurses wrote: post #2

One of these games involves assembling the perfect office layout for a RTO. A friend of mine works for a major corporation that recently enacted a 100% RTO mandate. I used to work there too, and knowing what I know about their operations, I am willing to bet that probably 75% of the workforce in their offices are going to spend 100% of official work time on Zoom calls. They own offices all across the company and oper…

I know I'm in the minority, but WFO works great for me. My office is in walking distance of my home. I get great office perks (lunch, coffee, quality meeting rooms, good desk and workspace). And having a second space for work that is not my home is great for my mental health and WLB. All of my meetings are still video conferences. Doesn't move the needle for me. I choose to be in office 5 days a week even though only…

> My office is in walking distance of my home.

You are definitely in the minority ;)

IMO the commute is the biggest problem with RTO - why must I spend >1hr of _my_ time going to/from an office when I can do the same work at home?

Re: Show HN: Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme

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Post by pavel_lishin »

cbarrick wrote: post #4
FatherOfCurses wrote: post #2

One of these games involves assembling the perfect office layout for a RTO. A friend of mine works for a major corporation that recently enacted a 100% RTO mandate. I used to work there too, and knowing what I know about their operations, I am willing to bet that probably 75% of the workforce in their offices are going to spend 100% of official work time on Zoom calls. They own offices all across the company and oper…

I know I'm in the minority, but WFO works great for me. My office is in walking distance of my home. I get great office perks (lunch, coffee, quality meeting rooms, good desk and workspace). And having a second space for work that is not my home is great for my mental health and WLB. All of my meetings are still video conferences. Doesn't move the needle for me. I choose to be in office 5 days a week even though only…

I got incredibly lucky at my first job. The first office we had was a five minute walk from my apartment. I could literally walk home to grab lunch, or to enjoy a private bathroom break. The second office moved to a 10 minute bike-ride away (5 minutes by car, 20 walking - which wasn't pleasant in the Texas heat), and was on the top floor of an office building, and I got my very own office with a door.

That was nice.

Sitting at a shared desk, one row away from twenty sales people who were on their phone all day, that wasn't.

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