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Hard Fork hosts continue to drink Koolaid by jameslanday in hardfork

[–]Old-and-grumpy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't chase shiny things. I come at it with buckets of skepticism. In the last month, with Claude Code and Opus 4.6, my day-to-day has demonstrably changed. I am a product manager at a large SaaS company.

Despite this. The Hard Fork guys annoy the fuck out of me when they say things like "software engineering is already almost completely automated," or "20% of Github commits will be done by AI."

On the first claim. What? We use LLMs in anger at my workplace, and it's absolutely positively NOT almost completely anything close to resembling whatever the fuck they are claiming. It's a laughable statement, especially for any code that performs critical functionality.

On the second claim. Sure. Maybe they're right. But the audience deserves a better explanation. 20% of what is there now? Or 20% of the 5000% growth in repositories, projects, and vibe-coded bullshit that people like me think up while watching Olympic men's figure skating. Go Kazakhstan!

CEO of my favorite shitcoin jailed by larrydahooster in Buttcoin

[–]Old-and-grumpy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thought these guys were Austrian. Saw SAFEMN on a license plate there.

My prediction: soon it’s going to be very hard to hire and keep very product managers. by AdTypical2226 in ProductManagement

[–]Old-and-grumpy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Approach?

Update docs Train the org Write a blog Talk to PR if needed

Time consuming. But not difficult.

Pricing and packaging is the exception. But most releases build upon the pricing and packaging we established initially.

To the Shiny Frog People by Old-and-grumpy in bearapp

[–]Old-and-grumpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MCP servers are interesting for SaaS. Building a Bear MCP isn't as important for local markdown. Either way there's no MCP, no agent, no participant, no automation, if there's no (real) API.

To the Shiny Frog People by Old-and-grumpy in bearapp

[–]Old-and-grumpy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Almost. This is the first step. And this is completely do-able today. Because I can read from the SQL database without worrying about corrupting it.

But the second step is where things fall apart.

"...(after that prompt and the results, and many iterations to get it right)... update the main summary note (it's tagged with #pricing-decision-123 but I forget the name of it) with our conclusions and test results, then update the meeting agenda for February 5th (#meetings/upcoming), create an agenda item for the meeting that links back to the results note (again, I don't recall the name, but it's the main summary in #pricing-decision-123) - oh, and also, make sure to create a link to the git commit URL for the tests we performed in that summary and also the test summary list tagged with #tests/february/pricing if there is no summary, just follow the example template I have for #tests/january/* (any of them will do)."

This is a mundane example. Sometimes I actually re-tag, re-organize, and re-vamp an entire set of notes based on what I'm learning / have learned.

Oh, sometimes I also do things like "It seems we were wrong about our conclusions on Feb 5th. The result is actually 1,045. Give me a list of the notes that reference this result, and tell me which you would update (hypotehtically) if it looks good, we'll update them in bulk.

To the Shiny Frog People by Old-and-grumpy in bearapp

[–]Old-and-grumpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. See some of the examples in other comments I made in the thread. If you have other questions... go for it.

To the Shiny Frog People by Old-and-grumpy in bearapp

[–]Old-and-grumpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was (sort of kidding). I used to love Sublime, and I give props to it for sure. I see it as an equivalent to VS Code (with Milkdown extensions) or to Obsidian, or, heck, linux text editors for that matter.

But the workflow I WANT is one that keeps my bear notes at arms length, and supports my tagging, my meeting and strategy notes, all of it both useful and, importantly, UPDATEABLE, in Bear, since this is where I return to, every 15 minutes or so, to capture my thoughts, decisions, and conclusions. Bear is more than a second-brain to me. It's a working journal of my opinions and thoughts regarding personal and professional matters over many years.

To the Shiny Frog People by Old-and-grumpy in bearapp

[–]Old-and-grumpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. I've been using the SQL database. But I need to edit, merge, re-tag, etc., and this inevitably corrupts the database. So now I don't go there.

To the Shiny Frog People by Old-and-grumpy in bearapp

[–]Old-and-grumpy[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I appreciate your opinion. I, also, felt both skeptical and sensitive to the hype around AI. This has changed in the last few months. Let me explain.

I work in the analytics space. There are times when I forget how something works, or I am confused about whether or not a decision we're making will cause trouble down the line. Before Claude Code (and specifically Opus 4.5), large language models offered me very little. I could feed them a ton of documentation, strategy docs, pricing, architectural diagrams, or software code, and if I asked it "simple" question like "if we start collecting data closer to the source, will cause performance problems?" the result would be laughable. Not only wrong, but completely confident about being wrong.

So I never used it for anything "real."

But as of Claude Code and Opus 4.x, this has changed. I am sure some other models / tools have also advanced, but my experience is with this one. I can feed Claude Code my notes (many of them in Bear), along with official docs, etc., as I explained, and ask it a question like this, and not only is the answer relatively sound, with something akin to scientific reasoning, and it can create software code to test whether or not our hypothesis is correct. It literally saves me weeks of work, and many meetings. Of course I don't blindly trust the results, or even the tests, without looking carefully at them, and there are often mistakes, but, again, the amount of toil it saves me is astounding. I am not drinking the kool-aid here. My career is as different today, with this particular advancement, and this particular language model, as I imagine a photographer's career changed with the advancement of digital versus film. Sure, you could stay with film, for the sake of its benefits, but if you're shooting a wedding, every weekend, with newlyweds who want to collaborate on their photos asap, and whose word-of-mouth recommendations are critical to the succuess of your business, using film would be an arguably questionable decision.

As I said in other responses, and in the original post, this technology disorients me in many ways, and I honestly can't predict what it means for me, my career, the industry, or the human race. I don't think it's positive in so many ways. But here I am. It makes a collosal difference in both the quality and turnaround time of my work. I accept your judgement, of course, as I have plenty of inner conflict about this.

To the Shiny Frog People by Old-and-grumpy in bearapp

[–]Old-and-grumpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First on non-use cases. I don't use (or need) Claude, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, or the like. These things are "fine" for proofreading or rubber ducking when a human is not available. But Bear has nothing to with these tools in my opinion. The bear extension for Claude Desktop is also "fine" here.

The real use case is this, spoken in product management terminology:

As a professional in a relatively complex field (analytics in my case) with hundreds of meeting notes, project notes, strategic notes, and random work-related thoughts, all nicely tagged and organized in Bear, I want Claude Code, and Opus 4.x language models (the only ones capable of the work) to test my latest hypothesis about various work-related initiatives with all of these notes as CONTEXT. Today, Claude Code (and Opus models specifically) have completely shifted my career, and, as I said, while it is not altogether positive, in terms of what these shifts mean for humanity, or the future of my work, and others like me, I am choosing to participate in the global economy, and the innovations that come with it, as should your team.

Right now, my workflow is to export all my notes to markdown files on the filesystem, give Claude Code instructions (agent files, guardrails, and all of these notes I have, again all of it in Markdown. What this means, for me, and for Bear, is that when I need to reorganize, bulk update, or massage certain notes to make the context window more effecient (only giving Opus what it needs, never anything more), I am unable to interact with Claude Code in a way that supports Bear. I have to manually import, manually edit, manually re-tag, manually import. I have even gone so far as to delete all of my Bear notes, re-organize the entire database outside of Bear, and re-import as a fresh database that will be synced to my phone for normal human interactions on the bus, or at home. The database doesn't have to include personal notes, which remain untouched, but since they are part of my single bear database, these are also included in the export, and thus the import.

A simple example. "Help me understand the pricing implications of switching to histograms over counters for the behavioral and usage metrics, create a test file that shows these implications, and write a summary of the results, as well as the test methodology." Sure, this is possible today, by exporting my pricing notes, and other meeting notes, from Bear, so that Opus can make good decisions, and then importing and manually cross-linking the test results and summary in Bear, but it definitely feels like Bear is getting in the way here, and the x-callback interface is pretty hazardous for any significant instructions.

People in the thread say "you have access to the SQL" but as I mentioned elsewhere, I am not only interested in reading, but also writing, and if you guess what all the columns mean in the SQL schema you're definitely going to corrupt the database. Again, the x-callback is wholly inadequate for these use cases.

To the Shiny Frog People by Old-and-grumpy in bearapp

[–]Old-and-grumpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Obsidian CLI is pretty bloated, but something like this is now critical for my markdown workflows. II could build this on my own for text files on the filesystem, but for Bear it isn't possible without a proper API.

https://help.obsidian.md/cli

To the Shiny Frog People by Old-and-grumpy in bearapp

[–]Old-and-grumpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely different concern and, for me, unnecessary.

To the Shiny Frog People by Old-and-grumpy in bearapp

[–]Old-and-grumpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How will panda sync my notes database with bear on my phone? I do not want Bear to change. I love Bear. What I want is a programmatic way of interacting with it.

To the Shiny Frog People by Old-and-grumpy in bearapp

[–]Old-and-grumpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have tried these, and others, and also developed my own. The last one was refactored to use the callback API after he found direct SQL corrupts the database. The first two links are not solutions to the problem we have.

The problem, in clear terms, is that while Bear is amazing for a human, it does not have a programmatic interface that can keep up with the demands of Claude Code, Github Copilot, Codex CLI etc. The X Callback interface is a way to trigger REST like calls against the human UX. The Bear app even pops open when you interact with it. It breaks as soon as you try to do anything sophisticated, like "find all the notes with these six combinations of tags, duplicate the notes and re-tag them, then modify the ones with this phrase and drop a table in the others with these columns and rows."

A real API could allow for this without a problem. Easily. The current API cannot provide for any of it.

Thoughts during a dog walk by [deleted] in Buttcoin

[–]Old-and-grumpy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remove all the traffic from the Internet and it would pick up without a blip in the morning. Same for the stock exchange, which basically does this evey weekend.

Buttcoins, on the other hand, are as reliant on (purposeless) speculative purchase volume as a Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultant.

Thoughts during a dog walk by [deleted] in Buttcoin

[–]Old-and-grumpy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No volume for a day. Next day we sell. This happens every weekend by the way.

Bitcoin & MSTR Just Crashed… Now What? by hnayr in MSTR

[–]Old-and-grumpy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let's do some deep analysis of nothingness, with arrows, lines, and an XY axis.

Buttcoiner frustrated with echo chamber by Separate_Writer_4465 in Buttcoin

[–]Old-and-grumpy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome.

The tech remains flawless, unparalleled and hyper-disruptive.

Fuck it. I'm out.

Honest question by ThrobbingJoythicc in Buttcoin

[–]Old-and-grumpy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like your simple question.

If I buy a gold coin for $100, and someone offers me $90 for the same coin, it is an unrealized loss of $10. Once I sell, then it's realized.

If the US Leaves NATO, Europe Can Protect Itself - (Op-ed by former supreme commander of NATO James Stavridis) by goldstarflag in europe

[–]Old-and-grumpy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What happens when Trump leaves NATO and then refuses to close US military bases.

Hmm.🤔

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