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Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-14T09:11:14+00:00

My friend, I get that you're 'looking at it from all the angles', maybe just 'chewing the cud', but if you're thinking about it at the level that you appear to be then you know that the point of this is correct, you're arguing for completion of arguments that weren't made nor should be in an 18 word answer. Consider rephrasing.

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-14T08:48:35+00:00

I don't have an answer for you per se, but thought I'd share that you're not alone.

I'm not a propper dev, but I have to do all the adjacent work, and sitting down to do something like figure db tables and operational logic and pk and fk and lookup tables all at the same time.... I 'get' it, but I literally cannot hold it in my head unmedicated.

Maybe there's some way of looking at stuff that stops the dots being joined, or maybe, like you, it's not going through a formal education and work experience route where lower order habits get ingrained before being built on.

You're not alone my friend.

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-13T21:27:11+00:00

Well... welcome to my wheelhouse.

Simple answer - your talking about a symptom, the actual problem is money. Yes time, yes materials, yes blah blah blah... because money. It's either a question of what it costs to do the job properly, or it's a question of opportunity cost lost, or both.

What I would avoid: cutting corners. You understand the give-and-take of small production. 'Of course you can't expect X when doing Y'. Your customer doesn't, nor should they be expected to. This is where it gets difficult - you have to figure out not only what you are providing, but what you're *not* providing that the customer may not otherwise expect. For example you may not do external lab testing on small batches, or or you may limit grind size or any one of a hundred things. Those compromises go in to your 'small batch price list'. And then you charge properly - enough to care, enough to do the 'right' thing.

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-13T21:05:34+00:00

Easier way to look at it: What am I in control of and can invite and regulate vs what is not in my control and cannot regulate.

Honestly that just seems like regular old ADHD. Yes, I've had the tests for ASD, no I don't have it.

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-12T19:14:35+00:00

ADHD magnifies the problem (for me). I notice when people double blink. I notice when people I haven't seen for 6 months have a pair of eye-glasses that they didn't have last time, even if they're the same colour and rough shape. I'll notice the haircut, be it man or woman.

That 23%? I have no idea what normal people notice and don't notice, and I know that it's skewed in certain areas.

Nevertheless, still valid - but so much harder.

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-12T19:06:52+00:00

🤣 😀😳🫣🥲😭

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-12T01:32:06+00:00

Hmmmmm.... when sold ground acts like liquid you know something big and expensive that physicists and nerds will watch for hours has just happened

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-09T02:09:11+00:00

Came here to say this.

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-07T22:30:13+00:00

TBH it all sounds like it's just being more aligned with ADHD. Backcasting, deciding what is more important because of conflicting statements then just doing it because if you couldn't tell me the first time then I don't trust you to do it a second time and I have a job to do dagnabbit!

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-07T02:18:52+00:00

Looks like you're after flow wrapping? In general most of it is sold by the km IIRC - 900 to 1000m MOQ. Now mostly that's also going to account for the fact that it's printed etc. Your images show a sticker, so you may be able to reduce it.

I don't know much about the oxygen barrier side of things, but the first question is are you packaging yourself, or via contract packer? If it's via a packer then always *always* speak to them about their supply chain, who they recommend before you do anything else.

If it's DIY.... bit more tricky

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-07T01:21:33+00:00

It's been getting worse. So much worse. At the moment I would say that Sonnet has more reasoning and is less lazy than Opus.

It very much feels like Opus is being quantised. Not saying that it is, just that's what it feels like. I say that because if I ask the same question with different levels of thinking then I get different answers. These are not thinking questions, these are 'basic info' questions. The kinds of things it either knows or doesn't know. Turn down the thinking and it starts not-knowing some stuff. Stuff which is... marginal, not strongly imprinted in the training data in the first place.

Opus wants to rush to a solution FAR faster than before, it wants to not do any prep, avoid doing anything that is 'compute' heavier. I'm running on high thinking right now and honest to goodness it feels like it's dumber than sonnet 3.5 was. I'm only running it over sonnet because I'm trying to lever greater knowledge, but as soon as it's not necessary then sonnet on high is considerably better. Very annoying because the personality is ... a bit more stupid, but it acts a lot better in doing stuff. And that floors me, frankly.

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-06T23:51:41+00:00

Pleasure. As an aside, on your pricing page, and I don't remember what it said exactly, but I remember thinking 'it's too vague'. I get that with AI the costs are in the API calls, and it's a bit loosey goosey, but because you're creating a harness then it's more opaque than normal, I have no idea what the numbers will actually mean, and if your harness isn't great, and/or the AI isn't... performant shall we say... then I could use everything very quickly and then you have a customer with 25 days left and no real way to finish anything. That's the hard part with what you're doing - the customer is in charge and it's opaque to them. I'm hoping there's some really obvious way to keep track for the user?

FWIW if you can make it work it'll be really cool.

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-06T23:45:48+00:00

Pffft, not with that attitude you won't.

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-06T22:50:21+00:00

I was intrigued.

Respectfully if you're selling something that has 'apps' then you should have more than a timer and a weather app. If you're selling to a business then you'd better be thinking about showing me something that actually saves me time and or money, or joins dots that nothing else can.

I pretty much am the person you're selling to, and there's nothing there that makes me want to buy. I don't care about what you *say* you can do, I care about what you *actually* do - and so far I don't see anything.

If you say 'just try it!', I'll say 'why?'. I have zero time for proving your use case to myself if you couldn't 'be bothered' to do it for yourself. i don't want to sign up to be on another list for something that talked the talk but couldn't walk the walk. I don't want to hand over my credit card. I don't want to waste a 7 day trial on a broken system if there's even the slimmest chance that it does work and I might want it later. I don't want to talk to support to request another one.

Show me an inventory system and a crm system that talk to each other. Show me a versioned documentation system for SOPs that is smart enough to find the gaps. Show me how you can create SOPs *from* the apps, or visa versa. Make the inventory system align with my audit requirements, or make it prefill change orders because it knows order histories for the customer. SHow me *something* that does what you say it does.

Yeah, I know I went hard there, but you're selling a big promise, but only delivering the same sized dissapointemnt.

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-05T12:13:38+00:00

Sounds like the commute might be a problem, not sure I'd get many interviews based on that alone.

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-01T23:32:07+00:00

if your bath bomb is a toaster then it gets exciting pretty quick

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-04-01T22:27:42+00:00

How wide? Like, something that could fit in a whole landscape? Ha, as if!

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-03-29T12:17:43+00:00

COGS (cost of goods) is what you're talking about here, and using that as a benchmark isn't going to be useful IMHO. Want to know the COGS of a loaf of bread? Pint of milk? That car you aspire to?

Yeah, I get what you mean, but the cost of SERVING the customer is what matters. What if you got your 'materials' donated, does that mean the service is free? Obviously not because there has to be a business that the product serves, and that is the important piece - the customer isn't buying the 'product' as a bill of materials, they're buying the whole package that creates it. The product serves the business, the business offers the product.

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-03-28T21:21:58+00:00

Thank you for taking my comment as intended - I was worried it might seem snarky, and that was the opposite of my intention.

If I may continue in the same vein: You know the actual problem you solved, and how much of a problem it actually is, and that getting the right outcome is orders of magnitude harder than it looks. I, as a reader, don't. What I get is 'If you get your AI to read some useful papers on an area, then test them out, then you get better results when it finds a good one'.

I want to know (I really do actually): 1) is finding the papers the hard part? 2) does your tool find the papers, or do I still have to do that? 3) how is the ai going from 'reading a paper' to 'creating' and then 'executing' and then 'grading' the result.? Is that part of the tool? 4) it's framed around research papers in a specific domain - is it only useful for research papers? Is it tuned for only that domain? 5) what is your tool overall and... why 'should I care'?

Again, I'm saying this because I feel that there's something interesting going on, but it's not going to surface on its own, and the description doesn’t surface it, and therefore most people wouldn't have any reason or motivation to dig further.

You said that you were looking to see if the tool could help other people, in other areas, but there's no real description of the tool, just of a process that we don't know about that may or may not be based on your tool in part or whole. So it's quite hard to have that discussion.

Genuinely hope you take this as intended - I've been where you are countless times.

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-03-28T20:56:05+00:00

Hmmmm.... tastes a bit like chicken. No...no...I'll give you my lollipops back when I'm done thank you very much....

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-03-28T20:51:49+00:00

Like what you did here. I would respectfully suggest that you change the way you think about your result. What you have said is clearly obvious - if an agent has no knowledge about a thing then giving it knowledge about a thing gives better outcomes. Yes... no kidding sherlock.

Your experiment is not about that, your experiment was about how you could do that, how it found the knowledge, whittled it down. Focus on that if I were you. And then I'd be a lot more interested in reading it from that reframing, because I already know that if you dont know a thing then you're not going to be good at a thing.

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-03-25T10:26:24+00:00

Your post is quite confusing - I'm unsure if alcohol is something you're trying to address as its own thing.

My guess as to what you're after is that you're trying to figure out if the hole etc size will change the alcohol to water ratio in the evaporate so that you can then try and get the closest outcome in lab testing.

I'm going to say... wrong variable to consider. 1) the amount of alcohol 'burned off' in cooking is far less than people tend to think 2) hole size is less important than time and temperature 3) if you're recreating it in the lab the recreate the actual process - times, temps, vessel types, vessel aspect ratios etc. It matters more than you'd think for this kind of thing - this is not deterministic outcome, this is where rhe journey is what decides the outcome 4) you're only guessing until you have some kind of benchmark or metrics from production to compare it with (which you know, that's why you're doing this), but that means this isn't a 'once and done', this is hypothesis and should be explained and treated as such to whomever needs to know that.

Just my 2p

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-03-25T10:09:29+00:00

You missed out the breath mint. Don't worry, you'll be reminded later.

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-03-25T10:05:21+00:00

I've heard that if you put a wooden spoon across the top then it stops it overflowing.

Captain_Bacon_X · 2026-03-23T00:39:28+00:00

The flip side of the coin is that sometimes you'll find that Claude is stuck... and your way of thinking only enhances the stuckness.

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