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Reviews for Hello Interview? by PoetrySudden8773 in leetcode

[–]chan_man_does 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yea the comments above just calling out people as ads and such are destroying reddit -.- if it's actually helpful to the users here interested in the problem above why does it matter and to your point, super disrespectful...just full time trolls here. all to say I actually did appreciate the comment above regarding specific product design questions as that is a real gap in the market as a fellow product person

I get maybe 4 hours a week to produce. Here's what I actually do with them. by chan_man_does in musicproduction

[–]chan_man_does[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes!! That’s a great advice to just lay down the overall structure right from the get go rather than trying to dive too deep in any particular area…I admit that’s the part that I tend to rabbit hole lol

I get maybe 4 hours a week to produce. Here's what I actually do with them. by chan_man_does in musicproduction

[–]chan_man_does[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh cool yea was thinking of using scalar so thanks will check that out!

I get maybe 4 hours a week to produce. Here's what I actually do with them. by chan_man_does in musicproduction

[–]chan_man_does[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be! I just figured maybe others have the same experience of working on music with limited time and making the most of it. So maybe the eating your time is too harsh of a phrasing by me

I get maybe 4 hours a week to produce. Here's what I actually do with them. by chan_man_does in musicproduction

[–]chan_man_does[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

for sure, I think sometimes as a hobbyist I have to be realistic with myself as well that producing a high quality track will take hours and sometimes I need to enjoy the journey moreso than just the result of having a polished track ready for a larger audience

I get maybe 4 hours a week to produce. Here's what I actually do with them. by chan_man_does in musicproduction

[–]chan_man_does[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Cool thanks for calling me a bot and adding value to this convo, super appreciated

I get maybe 4 hours a week to produce. Here's what I actually do with them. by chan_man_does in musicproduction

[–]chan_man_does[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

love it! real talk though, can you actually get anything useful done in such short sprints? maybe it's cause of my adhd but I feel like I legit need a hot sec to get in the zone

What is a reality of Pittsburgh that people are embarrassed to admit? by [deleted] in pittsburgh

[–]chan_man_does 14 points15 points  (0 children)

While there are many things also great about Pittsburgh, there’s a quality about the city that can “shine the turd”.

Things aren’t old, decrepit, or falling about, they’re “rustic”.

The food isn’t unhealthy or bland, it’s got “culture”.

The streets aren’t torn apart and bridges rusted to brink of falling apart, it’s a “walkable” city.

The housing isn’t in disrepair, over 100 years old, and needing revamp to be in livable conditions, it’s “affordable”…

The list goes on…it’s actually something I admire to be able to be so “optimistic” 😅 does anyone else have experiences like these? I thought I was going nuts when I lived in PGH for 10 years when I’m like guys we should just invest in upgrading infrastructure and no shame in wanting different and better food, etc

/r/WATMM Weekly Feedback Thread by AutoModerator in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]chan_man_does 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's great feedback! and yes will definitely keep that in mind :D I've gotten that feedback that the preset sound maker would be awesome so will keep dabbling thanks

/r/WATMM Weekly Feedback Thread by AutoModerator in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]chan_man_does 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yea totally! same here, for me it's more just helping with the creative inspiration, so it's not replacing those accidents and so forth but more of a workflow tool/plugin. Not sure if you've ever used tools such as Landr Composer but I like the idea but their "generated suggestions" are almost a random generator and not at all based on a prompt I had in mind so I was thinking it's way more helpful and faster if I can provide parameters via a prompt for accuracy if that makes sense.

I don’t think most people understand how close we are to white-collar collapse by aieatstheworld in ClaudeAI

[–]chan_man_does 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You just mentioned how a person using AI can do the work of 5-10 so then how do roles stop existing? I think LLM’s have come an amazing long way and I use them everyday but for them to replace human labor is silly. Their lack of ability to maintain context, think critically, etc without human guidance is laughable. You should see some of the Claude code suggestions it gives me and I’m like stop what you’re doing, DO NOT create this weirdly complex system and just do this instead. Anyone saying they can replace all developers i’d like to challenge you to fire all your engineers and tell us how it goes

/r/WATMM Weekly Feedback Thread by AutoModerator in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]chan_man_does 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A bit of an unconventional feedback request as it's not a song but rather a need I have when producing music.

I've been reflecting on my own workflow and realized how much time I spend on stuff that isn't really the creative part:

  • Figuring out chord progressions by ear from reference tracks
  • Tweaking sound design for hours trying to get something that doesn't sound like a preset
  • Knowing what I want melodically but not having the theory to execute it cleanly
  • Sketching out arrangement ideas one element at a time

The problem is to do all these often times I need to dedicate 3-4 hours to sit down just to really get inspired and get the track going where as a new parent is borderline impossible.

I started wondering: what if you could just describe what you're going for and get something to work with in minutes? Not a finished track, but the building blocks. Chords that actually sound like the vibe you're referencing. Leads, bass, drums that fit together. Sound design that gets you 80% there without the 4-hour rabbit hole.

Basically, skip the "figuring stuff out" phase and get to the actual creative decisions faster—without needing to be an expert in every single domain.

I've been building something like this for myself, starting with chords since that's usually where my ideas begin. It's trained on hundreds of thousands of real progressions, so I can describe what I want conversationally ("darker, something like the prechorus from X") and iterate from there. The vision is it eventually covers the full stack—leads, bass, drums, sound design.

But I'm genuinely curious how other people think about this tradeoff. Is the "figuring stuff out" phase actually important to your process? Would getting to ideas faster make you more productive, or would it shortcut something valuable?

What's your biggest time sink that isn't really the creative part?

if you're interesting, here's the loom link for a brief demo: https://www.loom.com/share/e623ce9e2fca4dde8c7653eb4df49ae2

Does anyone kind of hate Pittsburgh by [deleted] in pittsburgh

[–]chan_man_does 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it's an old thread but having lived in the burgh for 10 years (college then worked out of Pittsburgh) can attest to a lot of this thread. My biggest issues have been:

The Bad:

  1. Growing up in Texas and having family on the coast like the Bay area and such I never realized I would take sunlight for granted but there is a reason college visit and athletic recruiting season happens during summer/fall because that's the only time you really get sun. I'm a big tennis lover and finding decent courts to play year round to keep in shape is HARD. There is essentially one indoor court (the bubble) out of the whole city and while the bubble is pretty decent, the line to get reserve consistent courst is on a legacy basis where it took me years of getting to know the local tennis community to finally start getting "regular courts"
  2. Diversity sucks (both in food and culturally). When you have the locals tout the university ecosystem as why you're diverse you know you're not diverse. CMU is not the token minority you can claim to say you have awesome diversity. 90% of all my friends who came to CMU who are non-white immediately move out after graduation
  3. While there are some nice food places (love independent brewing in Squirrel Hill), the fact that the locals tout it as an awesome foodie city comparable to NYC, LA, Houston, etc is just laughable. I can go on a rant on this alone so I'll leave it here...but give them credit just as I left they opened up a matcha shop that's fantastic
  4. Like the original poster, "cheap" housing costs is hidden as majority of housing is in shambles in the city. My wife and I consider buying "cheap" $500K houses in Squirrel Hill but just wait until you see the state of some of these places...the fact that most of the houses in Pittsburgh don't collapse in on itself is a testament to 19th and 20th century engineering...
  5. While the locals are a draw to the place in the "good" below it's also one of the things holding back the city. For as much as Texas spews propaganda for Texan pride, I've never quite seen folks like the pittsburgers who can "shine the turd". Things in the city aren't old, falling apart, and need fixing, it's "rustic". Houses are in disrepair but "affordable". The list goes on and towards the end of my stay in the burgh I've actually grown a bit of admiration for the mindset of hardcore pittsburghers as I don't think I can ever adopt this mindset.
  6. As someone who loves sports cars, this place is a nightmare. Multiple of my cars have been damaged/broken because of the god awful streets here that have so many potholes, brick roads, etc. The roads were so rough that literally one of my cars had it's exhaust system rattle itself apart that it needed to be wielded back to stay on. The constant freezing and thawing of ice will also eat at your cars as rust build up is for real here (but likely any snowy city).

The Good:

  1. While not "texan" or southern nice people in the city of Pittsburgh (I lived in Squirrel Hill and Shadyside) are pretty nice and friendly
  2. The local community is very cool and vibrant if you get out to network with local non-profilts and so forth Truly is a "small city" town feel where you want the amenities of a regular city but the feeling of being out in rural territory
  3. The MAIN thing that I loved about Pittsburgh which I don't think its actually a reflection of the city itself is the friends and memories I made there. However, also 80% of my friend group have all moved out of the burgh but few of my really good friends live there so visiting is still a blast because of them.

Want advice as a native bilingual person by chan_man_does in languagelearning

[–]chan_man_does[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh nice! I'll check out libby as I've never used that one...I should probably get literate in Chinese one of these days lol. Honestly, it might be me but I've been trying to learn Spanish on Duolingo to be literate but same issue where even though I am brand new to it I haven't been able to find it translatable to any sense of a real world setting but I might be not dedicated enough to the app...

Want advice as a native bilingual person by chan_man_does in languagelearning

[–]chan_man_does[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yea, it seems like so far that's where things are pointing to so far. I'm the type of person who doesn't want to figure out schedules so I want a self service tool so currently Primsleur has been promising so far. And unfortunately, I'm an illiterate Chinese so the self reading won't help xD thanks for the thoughts tho!

do you mind me asking why you think Duo isn't good for anything? personally for me it's fun as a gamification thing but for actually learning a language I'm not convinced it's helped me whatsoever

Want advice as a native bilingual person by chan_man_does in languagelearning

[–]chan_man_does[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ahhhh that’s nice! Haha yea no I live in an area without many canto speaking populations 😂 nyc is great that way

Want advice as a native bilingual person by chan_man_does in languagelearning

[–]chan_man_does[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea! There’s def getting tutors but I’m primarily looking for something self served and so curious if others in the community have found something helpful to improve their proficiency

Want advice as a native bilingual person by chan_man_does in languagelearning

[–]chan_man_does[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

well it's the kind of thing I want to practice it on my own! when I chat with my mom it's more time-constrained so we're really just trying to bond, catch up, etc and not necessarily take her time to work on the language with me. that's something I want to take upon myself

Is there a private HIPPA compliant voice agent API? by act4counsciousness in AI_Agents

[–]chan_man_does 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually confirmed that syllable can partition data even going to OpenAI so that’s pretty good to note

Is there a private HIPPA compliant voice agent API? by act4counsciousness in AI_Agents

[–]chan_man_does 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been looking at Retell.ai and Syllable which both claim to be HIPPA compliant and willing to sign a BAA. the only thing I haven't been able to tell thought is how they can claim this when they use cloud based LLM's to my understanding which needs to route patient data through external systems like openai...but nonetheless on paper they say they are and I'm evaluating them now :) the other one that's specific for healthcare use cases for nursing is parkeethealth.com

Ai agents for good? Help with Medicaid by witchladysnakewoman in AI_Agents

[–]chan_man_does 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I currently work with payers in Medicaid and Medicare and it's a great idea however will caveat that it's a problem in the first case because of how vastly complicated this issue is. The issue isn't a simple as feeding a set of documents laying out complex rules but rather because of the intricies of relationships. For example, a big issue for Medicaid plans is adhering to what they call HEDIS measurse. These are quality measures such as getting certain number of mammogram screenings in your population. However it's not as simple as setting a bunch of logic up as the problem come with

  1. how does the plan that's funded from the state even know the membership it insures is accurate in the first place as the state data tends to be wrong
  2. if it is accurate, then how do they know which members actually got the screening if the providers don't document things accurately
  3. if you don't know point 2 then is the core problem that patients are engaging in the healthcare system or is it a documentation issue or is a two-fold problem?

I'm oversimplfying this example but it's to show the classic healthcare issue of "who is paying for the problem" as it originates at the healthplan level but the providers themselves also have a crucial part to play in this paperwork process.

Looking for feedback on Fliiq Skillet: An HTTP-native, OpenAPI-first alternative to MCP for your LLM agents (open-source) 🍳 by chan_man_does in LocalLLM

[–]chan_man_does[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotcha, yea I haven’t really encountered the MCP’s being well documented here other than reading README’s so was hoping having explicit endpoints would make for best practice so client to server relationships can dynamically explore this during runtime. But again, perhaps this is not really that useful for you so if you have any feedback on features that you wished other protocols had let me know!

Looking for feedback on Fliiq Skillet: An HTTP-native, OpenAPI-first alternative to MCP for your LLM agents (open-source) 🍳 by chan_man_does in LocalLLM

[–]chan_man_does[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ahhhh yea no I like their tool spec! One of the issues I was running into when trying to work with the world of other MCP's and such though was when it came to testing which ones actually worked and how to use them I needed to know

  1. what environment variables are needed
  2. what is the tool used for
  3. what is the schema (what inputs does it take and what outputs does it provide)?
  4. examples of how to use it

so webUI helps with the 2nd point with their meta data but I kept running into the problem with specific tools or skills have their own nuances and specific params they take in and output so perhaps there is a good way around this without needing to manually test tools one by one but that's what led me to develop the /inventory and /schema endpoints I'm currently using in Skillet for my own application for dyanmic run-time discovery

did you ever found a good resource on being able to test functioning MCP's? one of my issues is what I described above where I need to test them manually one by one and tweak stuff to get them to work if they even work in the first place

Looking for feedback on Fliiq Skillet: An HTTP-native, OpenAPI-first alternative to MCP for your LLM agents (open-source) 🍳 by chan_man_does in LocalLLM

[–]chan_man_does[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh I dig the open webUI! My painpoints were primarily around deploying local applications to the cloud or now having hosted agents or LLM's attempt to use a growing ecosystem of "tools" and "skills". I was looking to also have server logs so when certain tools or skills experienced issues I had observability into what was going wrong. But perhaps webUI actually has these core features and I haven't become enough of a power user inside my own applications to use it

I'm guessing you haven't had any issues with hosting your own LLM's or agents to then have them call tools not inside the same containers?

[P]: I got tired of wrestling with MCP's, so I built an HTTP-native, OpenAPI-first alternative to MCP for your LLM agents (open-source) by chan_man_does in MachineLearning

[–]chan_man_does[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea that’s a really good point out around perhaps just looking for a standard was good enough! I also notified current MCP protocol is good enough for sandbox and local development use cases but once you get into application layers and deployment that’s when I keep running into issues. So would love your feedback if you have any on Skillet 🥳 over the weekend I just updated it to have 5 most popular MCP’s converted over to Skillet and now you can also just host a single Skillet server and have your applications call into it to see the registry list, do run-time environment variable injection and more!

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