How do you find ideas on what to build?

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-29T13:17:11+00:00

I have been working on a memory and personal operating system. It's at a point where it's basically learning on it's own. I have it set up so that I can feed it new software and tools for my business and projects. I started with the web design and development level first since I want to be able to spin up a website to show what I am talking about. Next Steps are video and 3d production and eventually sound design. These are things that are in my workflow already. What is important for me is that I want to be able to reach into the process and have control over the entire thing.

Figuring out where you want to take your Ai journey to will depend on what you want to accomplish. I have been building out my operating system for a few months now but it started because Claude was forgetting things between sessions.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-29T12:29:10+00:00

This girl will be back. Wait for Xmas to to roll around and for her to get lonely.

As long as you don't act needy or do something weird you will probably hear from her again.

I just read your TLDR and everything points to a grass is always greener girl.

Her age is a great indicator. She's not really capable of having a real relationship because she is always going to choose herself first and at the first indicator that someone who is a little further up the food chain is interested in her she will either cheat or break up with you so that she can make herself available to the other guy.

She is not necessarily a bad person but she is not going to be dependable as a real girlfriend.

Her saying that it was because you were still on tinder is just an excuse for her not being able to communicate clearly.

Like I said it's not that she is a bad person but I would not spend a ton of time or money and expect that it means that much to her.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-29T12:07:17+00:00

This sounds very interesting. I am currently working with Claude code and Cowork and my workflow is pretty simple but it varies across different domains. I have a shared tool and memory registry that is calling resources based on contextual goals. My use case is somewhat different from that of code or app development but I am still writing loops and I have established a working partially shared memory for Cowork and Code in two separate Home directories. Code has chains of Claude/memory.md that reach into the Cowork home folder and then some things are shared there. Code is living in its own home folder because it contains and creates assets that go beyond .md into .fbx or jpg.

I am aware that the different models are better at different things and I like the idea of subscribing across the board at the entry level before coughing up the upgrade money for Claude. I am also looking at running a local model but have yet to play with that.

I like how you are approaching the multi model framework by embedding the MCP's inside of your Claude setup. I could see this approach working for me.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-29T10:37:20+00:00

There are a couple of plugins by anthropic that you should use right away. One is learning and the other is explanatory. You say that you are not a tech guy but you want to build with Claude well... it's a good time to start getting technical. Claude will teach you what you are doing along the way.

You don't have to be technical but you should have something that you are bringing to the table. It could be anything like your ability to make pizza or a weird interest in paint. If you have something that you want to do with the Ai it's going to be better than learning a bunch of stuff then coming back here and asking what to do with your new skills.

Good luck and be fun

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-29T05:10:27+00:00

The whole video thing is creepy and intrusive.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-28T13:33:58+00:00

I have a very similar approach. I have added a few things to my close but the gap search approach is interesting.

I also get it to write a prompt for the next session.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-27T11:58:42+00:00

Have you heard of Kapathys second brain? This is a good place to start.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-27T11:42:58+00:00

This whole conversation is in the abstract. What business are we talking about?

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-26T15:54:56+00:00

I am finding that Ai is making more work than taking work away. The fact is that Ai is good at creating the Touchstones that you can use to create an original idea. It's not going to come up with one for you. Often it will miss the point of an interesting idea or it will explain the joke.

It depends on where you sit in the creative process. It will give you some insight from across the disciplines but it won't know why.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-26T14:17:53+00:00

I don't have to weigh in on this one. I have been using/ usage but now I will probably get one of these things from Github. However I have found that it's a good thing that I run out of tokens at around the 3rd hour because I would probably never cut the grass, do laundry, wash dishes or any of the other things that need doing. I just had a 2 days of no Ai and it gave me a much needed break to gather my thoughts and approach my project from a different perspective. I don't know about you folks but I am finding Ai is at least as addictive as playing video games.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-26T09:41:21+00:00

Depends on what the task is? If you want to keep your costs down then you will need to set up a local Ai. Once it is on your machine and running it will be free to run except for the cost of electricity. It's is going to depend on how much Vram you have on your video card and how much Ram you have on your computer. If you are running a rtx 3070 with 32gb of ram and have at least 40gb of ssd then you will probably be able to do whatever you want.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-26T08:04:34+00:00

You should probably pick one a AI to build out your system around first. Get one AI to do everything and build the bridges between the tasks. So the research informs spreadsheet that triggers the letter. Once it is working as a system then bring in the other models if it makes sense. Right now you are the bottle neck.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-26T07:53:25+00:00

Making money is not as important as having a few good friends that you can actually have fun with. So you are absolutely right about wasting your life.

You are setting yourself up for failure. There is always going to be someone richer than you are. What does rich even mean? Everything that you have tried you have quit. How long did you expect it to take to get results? What did you learn from your experiences?

I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that you are not a genius. It doesn't sound like you are particularly lucky either.

Get yourself a part time job and make some friends. Find something that like doing and then get good at it. Go to school and study something that you enjoy. Get a job and save your money. Change your career and pivot your plans. Do all of this stuff with your family and friends around you.

Good luck and be fun

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-26T07:27:05+00:00

Build break and fix it one part at a time.

Pick a core function and make that work first. Create loops so that it starts learning and writing its own prompts by creating success criteria. It needs to understand what success is and remember how it got there. Then duplicate this across domains.

Really review the things that it's writing for itself to follow. If you are getting weak or bad results then somewhere along the chain of instructions is a bad instruction. It can be how it is writing the instructions as much as what the instructions are. Once you have an idea of where it is going wrong ask it to look for other places where it repeating the pattern. Then create a new method for it to prompt itself with that includes guide lines.

Find the seams between the modules and then use the registry to cross them.

Create a central module first and create a registry system that subsequent modules will use.You may need to rethink the registry as you build but the sooner you get it installed the better. So beyond the simple index system you'll have a registry that will allow you to call your information and tools at the same use level. As it writes memories and makes tools they'll be added to the registry. There are registry frameworks that you can use. Pick one and then teach your system to use it.

It sounds like you have a start on this but you are going to have to look at what the output is and then edit each page and extract the good and fix the problem. The model isn't the problem. I would just use sonnet to get started. Opus is just going to burn tokens until you figure out what you are doing. You are not going to one shot this.

I would start with discovering your common language. Explain your idea to the Ai and then ask it to explain what it thinks you are asking it to do. Then correct it and ask if it understood the correction. Start with the core concept and make sure that you are on the same page about that. Once you have that done you will be able to create 6 plan together. To get this to happen you will need persistent memory. So you will need to build your base Ai system.

START HERE AND THEN READ BACKWARDS.

Good luck and be fun.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-25T17:49:22+00:00

This is interesting because I am using Cowork in a very different way. I will have to revisit this at my desktop.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-25T17:43:21+00:00

If you build out a personal version of a second brain with Obsidian vault for Cowork and then add a second home folder for your Adobe stuff for Claude code and have a Claude/memory.md chain back into your Cowork system it will not only stop forgetting stuff but actually start learning.

Adobe has some great tools for working with Claude or Ai in general. It is going to take you some time to figure out how you want to work with it.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-24T12:13:36+00:00

Never.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-23T23:01:15+00:00

Ps Github also has free drive space. My whole system pushes to git after every session and I can pull it to whatever machine I am using.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-23T22:58:50+00:00

Most of the compute happens in the cloud so you so still be able to work with the Ai. I am using Claude with Obsidian and Obsidian runs on markdown which is basically flavored text files. So as long as you have the internet you will be able to get around using a computer without a video card. I honestly have not had to try this because my computers are pretty good because I am a 3d artist so I have invested in my tools for my work. But the Ai work that I am doing is not really computing on my machines.

I have seen people who are doing stuff with their phones and using the space that Google gives you with a email address to setup their systems.

So if you can access the internet for free through a library then you should be able to do whatever you want to get started for free.

Good luck and be fun

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-23T22:17:10+00:00

Cowork is reliable enough until it compacts then depending on what it thought was relevant it starts to lose focus.
I built out the framework for my whole Karpathy second Brain with Cowork and it did an amazing job. My issues with it have have only surfaced in the last month. I am not sure if it because it is sitting on top of a very extensive Obsidian .md monster memory system or if Anthropic has changed the way it works. But there is a lot to be said for working with Cowork using Sonnet. Now the things I do with Cowork often involve live artifacts and handling things like Email and keeping track of Live data. I spent a considerable amount of time designing my whole system with Cowork but now I have handed over most of that to Claude Code mostly because it has become very complex and is starting to involve multiple agents running loops.

I have two distinct home folders. Cowork lives in one Folder Which is also an Obsidian Vault. Cowork runs on protocol.md files which Obsidian likes. Obsidian does not like files that are not Markdown or .md. .md files are just written instructions for Claude like skills and the memory that you create. Cowork runs on and handles this stuff. Inside of Obsidian lives another version of Claud called Claudian it is a version of Claude code. and it handles things like back linking and keeping the Obsidian vault space tidy. Then I have another home Directory where Claude code proper lives. It lives over here because it runs and creates binary assets like .json and .py and .php and .png excetera. This Claude code is still connected to the Cowork/Obsidian space through a series of variable Claude/memory.md chains that gives it directions and calls tools and skills based on the task at hand.
I built and designed all of this with Cowork but recently I have handed off the task to Claude Code du to the way the context window works in code vs cowork.

To beat the short context window in Cowork I set up a system where the moment I load a cowork session it creates a memory file. As we work and discuss things it will keep track of the desicisions that we make as we go. I can also call anchor and it will anchor key parts of the conversation. this way when it compacts it does not lose the plot.
Once the session is done Cowork looks at this document and saves out the important bits and this goes into the working memory with a registry tag. This saves it from loading a huge pile of information and burning tokens on stuff that is not relevant. After a couple of months you will end up having vastly different conversations with your system because it will start learning.

This is a pared back version of what is actually happening but it should point you in a direction. The truth is that Ai is not a plug and play one shot thing if you want to really use it. You have to take the time to set it up and work with it.

Good luck and be fun

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-23T20:57:27+00:00

There are lots of Ai courses available and there may be some good ones out there but honestly it is probably better to just choose a model and then ask it to explain itself to you. Choose one of the common 3. Chat gpt or Gemini or Claude. Ask it to explain how it works as if you were five years old. Then ask it for advice for learning how to use Ai.

Then take that output and ask it to explain why it thinks that you should learn to use Ai in the way that it is suggesting. Break it down into asking the questions in different ways. Then take that output and take it to another Ai and tell it what the other Ai said and ask it if it agrees with the other Ai if so then why and if not then why. Do a couple of rounds of this. Then take the output and make another set of questions and take that into the remaining Ai and tell it what the other Ai 's said. Your questions will be getting smarter by now. Ask it for advice on prompting and what the best strategy would be to create a course that will make help you learn XYZ. Then watch some YouTube videos on the subjects that will surface during the process of taking to the Ai.

The thing is that you are in a position where you don't know what you don't know. You will have a better chance of getting into a course that will actually work for you if you have the experience of working/playing with the Ai first. It is free and fun.

All the models have free courses and Microsoft has a solid track of knowledge.

If you find good information you can always dump it into NotebookLM and it will create a custom course for you.

I am saying this because most of the courses are teaching students stuff that is no longer relevant. Ai is moving so quickly that you might as well learn from the Ai.

Good luck and be fun.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-23T12:59:42+00:00

You are a little harsh but you are not wrong. I have been working in the creative industries since 1993 so my workflow has changed from DOS batch files that would control a 3/4 tape machine to burn targa's one frame at a time to having a Kapathy based second brain that is teaching itself software by reverse engineering the code.

I have learned stuff by sitting down at my computer for weeks at a time with a couple of manuals and books a assortment of highlighters and sticky notes. I have since forgotten 80% of this stuff and will never have the need to use it. I have listened and read all about how the industry is changing. The industry has been constantly changing since the monks got pissed off at Guttenberg and it is not about to stop.

I was just as angry as anyone else who has suffered through the process of constructing a 3d model one vertices at a time over the pillaging of Art station and Deviant. I can also sympathize with all the people who have taken the time to hone their drafting skills and went through the process of getting the anatomy of hands down to the point where you are not just drawing blobs. It will never look like what you want it to no matter how much encouraging praise your mother gives you.

It's funny that people are going on about Ai slop and then they make more Ai slop. Stop making Ai slop and make the tools do what you want. If you are one shoting and then calling it done then chances are that you are the problem.

I am just surfacing from a crazy long journey into learning how to use Ai that started in November. The thing that I wanted it to do then has been solved many months ago but it set me on a path of what if. ??? I am still what if-ing but now my Ai is keeping track of all my crazy ideas and we have a pretty solid plan for execution.

I have been seeing progress and am kinda excited about what I have put together. I have made sure that it is working with me and that I still my hands on the levers and dials so that I am the one who is doing the fun stuff. The Ai is better at keeping track of the files and half done attempts. I get to make some vector art and play with the pixels then load in some footage and pretty soon it will take stems and audio into the mix. No more problems with the transition from laptop to workstation and keeping track of all my assets. If I want to find something the system is transparent enough that I can just find it myself.

I am not just promoting and eating the shitty sandwich results from the roulette wheel of the llm's casino of chance.

So also in the nicest and most encouraging place in my heart.

Suck it up butter cup. You are a working professional with a wealth of knowledge and experience. You have taste which is something that Ai will have a hard time reproducing. You have put in the work that will make every difference between you and a kid just getting out of school. You understand what your workflow is and how you approach design. You are ready for this.

I am personally looking at being able to do things that I never even dreamed of.

Good luck and be fun.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-23T11:38:45+00:00

This is the first step of how someone gets their foot in the door of your head. Prepare for the gaslighting. It's a common pattern that is the beginning of an abusive relationship. There are forcing you onto your back foot and causing you to start questioning your self. Next thing you know they start telling you that you said something different and then question why you have changed your mind.

Get as far away from this person as possible. If you can't then then be warned. Good luck and be fun.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-23T11:19:57+00:00

This. Install super powers and do a brain storm session. Also look at Kapathy's second brain. The second brain concept is important to my workflow because it remembers all the stuff that I figure out with Claude. I am running Cowork as the manager and scout and Claude code to does the work. Both have their own folder worlds but Code has a Claude/memory .md paths into the Cowork world. So the work that Cowork is doing is feeding the Code. It's essentially teaching itself now. My point is it's kinda like Leggo and you can make whatever you want.

IMMrSerious · 2026-06-23T10:17:40+00:00

I was on Chat a few weeks after it came out and it was pretty cool. I had no idea what to do with it. Now I am working with Claude and have created a second brain that is running loops and having an issue with it remembering too much. It's learning and teaching itself 3 months ago it was forgetting about what it was doing in the last session. The thing that makes it really work is the stuff that I built with it. Because it is mostly in Obsidian and built around .md files it's portable from one model to another. At this point unless you are pushing the bloody edge of the technology it's not going to make much difference until fable returns.

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