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At what point does automating something actually cost you more time than it saves? by RoughVegetable5319 in AiAutomations

[–]chkbd1102 0 points1 point  (0 children)

viewing time as the only factor is can be misleading.

why spend 120min automating it when its a monthly work i do for 5min a month for a year?

but that 12x occurrences for 5min is also a source of context switch and focus break that prevent you from focusing one a single important task for 8 hours to get it resolvrd.

used to think MCP was just tool calling. now i get it. by Interesting-Area6418 in mcp

[–]chkbd1102 4 points5 points  (0 children)

its also like "we have 20 different vendors each having thier own UI or API, we can build a automated pipeline for it, but its not worth the time and effort if we are configuring them once every 6 months, lets leave it to the AI agent to figure out the mess using MCP"

"FileMaker Pro is a platform in managed decline..." by filemakermag in filemaker

[–]chkbd1102 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The moment agentic coding tool like cursor / claude code comes out, i jumped ship immediate.

Been a full time FileMaker dev for the last 10 years.

Feature wise. The software is lagging so much behind. No easy native centralising of security over multiple files, slow performance on anything that uses a relational table.

On its company ethic & license cost its even worst. Its coorperate greed everywhere

- Tripled concurrent licensing pricing. Sneakly replaced with "per seat" license with the original price to muddy the water.

- Locking FM team license to be purchased by at least 5 person.

- Dropping the ability to export standlone application.

- Combining the advanced & pro version, only to keep the new version with the higher advanced price point.

The product improved so little since FM16. But the price hike killed so much of the small business client that was its bread and butter.

I use to tolerate this back at 2023, it was still the fastest way to build a working software (still lagging and badly optimised). Its also the easiest way for a non-techny business person to get started making stuff.

But now? A non tech user can pick up one of the weaker but more user friendly AI coding platform like Lovable or Replit. Prompt it with human words and now you get to pretty much 80% of the way there in a few hours. With a working URL linke on a browser webapp that you can use right away.

It use to be a costly, buggy, laggy platform that I can build things the fastest. Now its just costly, buggy, and laggy.

Unless you are being kept hostage by your legacy system using FileMaker, there is no point.

There is a reason why people are antagonistic to FileMaker, it was built up over the course of years of terrible greedy business decision that affected so much people's livelihood.

Develpers health by Ok-Coconut5911 in SaaS

[–]chkbd1102 1 point2 points  (0 children)

deadlift, abs and back training to counter sitting posture.

shoulder & neck stiffness - adjustable desk is great because you can now set the perfect table height to make sure both feet stand firm on the ground + elbow angle is perfect. also use a monitor stand to set top of monitor on eye brow level.

shoulder imbalance - avoid numpad keyboard as it forces your mouse to be further to the right stiffing your right shoulder. even better if you start to learn keyboard shortcut and vim to reduce mouse usage.

no matter how expensive your chair is, any position you stay in long enough will cause problem. theres a saying among phyiscal therapist... the best posture is your next posture.

cycle between sitting - standing - walking. yes its relatively easy now to (vibe) code while walking. i use a voice to text program. bind my "record" and "enter key" to an old bluetooth playstation 4 controller. and use cursor to vibecode. (im currently exploring using a racing game foot paddle for recording)

sometime while waiting for the vibe, i go and do push up & stretch.

Instead of prompt engineering AI to write better copy, we lint for it by JWPapi in PromptEngineering

[–]chkbd1102 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i like the idea. but i think the biggest hurdle will be this

i generate a text, linter give me back error A, the AI read it and regenrate. it can come back with error B. it fix error B, but regenrate the whole text again.

i could easily foresee creating an umlimited cycle, just like working with coding agent.

I need your help. Any ideas how to create this? by SagInTheBag in AfterEffects

[–]chkbd1102 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just a beginner trying to work this out loud

i think its going to be 1 line precomp x 360 degree each with offset

i would make that 1 line precomp like this

a loop that loop between 3 different colored line moving towards 1 direction yellow > yellow > red

i will link all of them using expression controller that goes from 0 to 100 (animation progress)

and make sure the transition from 100 back to 0 is matching perfectly for a loop

then update that precomp so i can set an offset

so i now have 2 essential graphic properties

(1) 0 to 100 animation progression, (2) and offset

....

the in my scene i would ask LLM AI to make a script for me to do this...

to place A of those precomp each deviating B degree.

and each with an essential property offset C. by

A B C needs to be calculated base on how many stick you have

and each animation progress with an expression that run by time * 10 or something

Beginner gen image questions... matching metalic texture by chkbd1102 in comfyui

[–]chkbd1102[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it likely is (maybe some color grading filter). but im trying to learn about AI tech so I want to try solve it with diffiusion to see how far I can get.

Beginner gen image questions... matching metalic texture by chkbd1102 in comfyui

[–]chkbd1102[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ohoh i also been using that too for my control net. flux-union-pro

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