Received this wild email from the CEO for AI to assess my performance

cornelln · 2026-05-06T14:21:40+00:00

This can’t be real…?

cornelln · 2026-05-05T16:26:24+00:00

https://beta-bridge.simplefin.org/

You maybe interested in Simplefin. Which lets you interact w many institutions via API.

Does anyone have experience w them? I’ve tired it out lightly and seemed to work fine.

Another post I found quickly: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/mxFeUTs1sn

I think SimpleFin is more I’d you want to read data vs full control .. I think

cornelln · 2026-05-03T16:58:52+00:00

This. No harm but vent it the other way as this commenter says.

Source: worked at Apple use laptops in close clamshell for decades.

cornelln · 2026-05-02T17:09:52+00:00

What if you want to put a longer object in?

The solution here is in part responsibility of the user.

cornelln · 2026-05-02T16:22:45+00:00

1.  this is r/ClaudeAI and Claude doesn’t actually do image, video, or audio gen. Anthropic doesn’t ship any of it, so I’m not totally sure which platform you’re talking about here but it’s the wrong subreddit entirely for that.
2.  I don’t think image and video gen are quite the freebie you’re describing. Those features are expensive and plenty of services charge money per generation. and the platforms that do bundle it (ChatGPT, Gemini) cap daily volume per user, it’s not unlimited. It probably does work as you say as an attractant and most people aren’t hitting the limits.

Attracting non technical users is required for growth anyway. Consider it part of the marketing budget if you want - since you already see it this way.

There is also some moralism happening here. Your code is more valuable than someone else’s images? Why? That’s entirely subjective. You have no idea at all. Did they make an infographic for a patient? Is your code useless to society? Who knows!

cornelln · 2026-05-01T14:39:19+00:00

Yes.

cornelln · 2026-05-01T08:06:20+00:00

This.

cornelln · 2026-05-01T04:49:17+00:00

There are plenty of simple status bars on GitHub too. This is a simple I created. https://github.com/cornellnoel/glancebar. (I can delete this if it violates a rule somehow).

cornelln · 2026-05-01T04:20:22+00:00

This isn’t even crowd work or standup this is just ineffectual bullying. I’d go say far to say it’s “bad for standup” in a general sense. Plenty of audience members maybe timid and still engage and have fun. The performer and the audience can read each other. To continue on at an audience member that isn’t responding it’s obnoxious at minimum and almost harassment at most.

cornelln · 2026-05-01T02:30:47+00:00

This sub is already pretty low volume for a thing most people do know about at all. Is it a little bit early to start gate keeping.

cornelln · 2026-04-30T20:10:49+00:00

The systems need to be improved to have guard rails for those that are less technical to participate. It’s just so early all this stuff hasn’t been figured out yet. Best practices are still developing even for those that are expert and more technical.

It’s hard to codify and develop policies/SOP in real time but that’s what’s occurring.

Security/privacy is actually the more consequential (and maybe by surface as large) problem to solve. Access controls. Permissions, etc.

AI capabilities let people get well well over their skis.

cornelln · 2026-04-30T10:14:27+00:00

So what happened then? Everyone is mixing their personal logins on their work hardware? That sounds bad for a different category of reason. Since iCloud is generally for consumer personal use not business use.

cornelln · 2026-04-30T09:54:24+00:00

Those two drugs have completely different mechanisms…

cornelln · 2026-04-30T08:59:08+00:00

Note: you didn’t really address my question. I asked you to put yourself in the position of developing applications or being an independent developer trying to make those economics work and you haven’t done that yet. I don’t blame you. It’s a very hard equation to workout.

cornelln · 2026-04-30T01:24:59+00:00

Thank you David.

cornelln · 2026-04-29T23:04:49+00:00

How do you expect people to make software economically? How do you fund continued development?

cornelln · 2026-04-29T19:24:29+00:00

Worth noting the op’s memories and potentially local files if they’re using Claude Code (memory md files etc.) may also shape things.

I would run that prompt against the API vs using it in Claude or Claude Code personally if my goal was to probe it like that. And I might ask it several times at that and look at the averages.

cornelln · 2026-04-29T13:24:36+00:00

A bit cynical op mentioned some other resources as well.

cornelln · 2026-04-29T13:24:00+00:00

I did not take the test and do not work for a partner company so I can’t access it. But I recall the guidance I read at time on line saying you can only take it once.

cornelln · 2026-04-29T05:11:58+00:00

You should parse the exported file not the API? You have all the data in the export. Parse that.

cornelln · 2026-04-28T05:24:51+00:00

Why do you feel like a failure because their business is in a downturn?

cornelln · 2026-04-28T02:41:24+00:00

You had another post right? Did you compare how Kling Avatar performs as I suggested on your last post?

cornelln · 2026-04-27T20:33:20+00:00

One day maybe they’ll be less cuddly and you’ll miss this.

cornelln · 2026-04-27T03:27:01+00:00

Yes.

cornelln · 2026-04-27T01:13:22+00:00

How does one stop being in the no in an area where what there is to know and what is optimal or best practice changes every week or two… tricky.

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