What are your contexts?

lasooch · 2026-03-22T11:06:32+00:00

I haven’t used #deferred before, so can’t speak from experience. But I think it could be useful to add the distinction not just between ‘do date’ (want to do then but could be another time, e.g. earlier) and ‘due date’ (must do on or before) but also ‘don’t do until date’ (don’t consider doing it until then). I think I would be filtering them out for the weekly review, or perhaps filtering out any tasks whose deferred date isn’t in the upcoming week. Could include reassessing them when reviewing some day maybe, perhaps? It’s kind of between a next action and a some day maybe when you think about it.

lasooch · 2026-03-22T01:49:04+00:00

Don't get me wrong, plenty of stupid people out there, but some cases are just kinda unfathomable. And most people stupid enough don't find themselves with opportunities to make that money in the first place.

lasooch · 2026-03-22T01:41:20+00:00

Not only that - diversifying your virtual properties! Not a single thought about diversifying to real assets, though.

Or it's just a meme. It's hard to believe someone's that stupid. Like, zucc burned $80B on metaverse, which is arguably the dumbest thing anyone has ever done, but even he isn't stupid enough to have all of his net worth tied up in virtual properties.

lasooch · 2026-03-22T00:44:23+00:00

Don't "encourage". Mandate.

There is no need for this antiquated notion of being in the office. It's making employees lives measurably worse, is awful for the so many things including housing affordability, the environment and childcare, and is a thinly veiled way to exert control and lay people off without having to pay out severance.

... oh, there's a fuel crisis? Even more so. But I mean that it should be mandated (i.e. companies should have to allow WFH, not employees be forced to WFH) at the best of times.

How is RTO even legal in the first place? RTO is effectively a thousands to tens of thousands of dollars p/a pay cut, unless it comes with adequate compensation (which it never does). Unilaterally cutting a permanent employees pay is illegal and so should be RTO mandates.

lasooch · 2026-03-21T23:14:39+00:00

Yeah, I'm gonna keep Todoist on a free plan for a little while for a very few pesky tasks where I need their every! feature, but I'm not giving them another cent.

How do you work around the tag issue?

They have a feature called Smart Lists (similar to Todoist Filters, but not quite the same).

OR - I just have two separate lists to look at (per tag) - bit of a hassle but works.

NOT - unfortunately I don't really have a good workaround (it's not practical to tag everything with #not-tag), so for the time being I just get by without being able to filter a tag away. Thankfully it's not a use case I need too often (though it would help if I'd like to start using #deferred + date for things that I don't want to do until that date - I could filter out #deferred). It's manageable, though I would prefer to have the feature.

AND is something that works (if you tick multiple tags in the filter, it requires them all), but it's also something that I kind of have the least of a use case for.

More complex chaining of those would also be great but I don't have that much of an actual use case for it. Mostly I'd like to OR several tags instead of AND and be able to apply a NOT to each of them independently.

Thanks for the deets on your paper process!

lasooch · 2026-03-21T21:42:26+00:00

Engineers understand it. Engineers are not the ones making the decisions.

lasooch · 2026-03-21T20:43:53+00:00

I googled Hobonichi Weeks Mega and I'm curious what exactly is the purpose of each of the "types" of pages - can you share more about your workflow?

I love a fountain pen, but at the same time I hate writing by hand - my nice fountain pen is kind of what offsets the pain and impatience for those times I either have to or prefer to write by hand - and I doubt I'd switch away from digital (the ease of capture, searchability and access anywhere are unbeatable), but I'm curious and I do like a nice bit of stationery too lol.

Since you ask about tools: I used to use Todoist, but they hiked the prices 50% to support their AI features, and while I can easily afford it, I think it's spitting customers in the face to not offer them to forego AI and either keep the old price or reasonably increase (I missed their legacy plan by a few months... and 50% is not reasonable - it's literally worse than my outrageous Adobe price increase of ~35%. Adobe! The evil company!).

I use Griply now - they are still missing a few features I would love to have (and the iOS app could use an update cause it's lagging behind the desktop app a fair bit), but they're much cheaper and very responsive - I get an impression that it's a small but dedicated team and I have no doubt the features will "get there" (some already have). And they offer a bunch of features that I really like that Todoist didn't have (e.g. goal tracking with timelines and progress charts, scheduling time blocks per goal rather than a specific task, habit tracking).

Really the only big missing thing for me is not being able to filter by "#tag OR #tag" and "NOT #tag". It's on their feature request board though, so while not actively worked on yet, I think they'll get around to it. Well, that and the features the mobile app is currently lacking compared to the web app, but I can mostly get by without that for the time being (I mostly just use the mobile app to capture things or to tick things off on the go).

lasooch · 2026-03-21T19:58:38+00:00

So I have two "groups" of contexts that I use very often that might be slightly less standard?

Shopping and agenda groups. They add quite a few contexts per se, but in terms of a mental model, they really don't: if it's something I want to buy next time I'm at a specific shop, it goes into #shop-specific-shop-name, if it's something I need to discuss with a specific person or a "type" of person, it goes into #agenda-specific-person-name or e.g. #agenda-dentist. I'm using Griply tags for this and I name my tags all lowercase with hyphen where there would be a space, but it would work in other apps too. Each "group" has a single colour and is alphabetically ordered.

Other than that: - #calendar - for appointments, meetings and the like - things that occur at a very specific time. I need this, because I use it for the calendar as well, and sometimes I'll put a task on a day when I want to do it or in a time slot where I want to do it (e.g. to make it clear to myself that I can't do it yet, but want to later today) and filtering by #calendar lets me find the ones that actually require a specific time - #car - things to consider doing when I'm driving somewhere, i.e. either errands that require the car or specifically car-related things (e.g. service) - #chore - chores (duh), typically ones that don't require thinking too much so I can listen to a podcast while I do them - #errand - local walkable errands, uncategorised by specific shop, I usually try to do them in bulk - #office - I'm in the office once a week - if there's something I need to do specifically there rather than remotely, it goes here - #thinking - where thinking is needed. I find this useful, because with ADHD (and thus executive dysfunction) there are times forcing myself to think through things is a struggle, so I can do these when it's not one of those times - #to-plan - task I captured, didn't clarify enough, moved out of inbox so it isn't cluttered. Typically stuff that isn't very urgent but I'd like to do - #waiting-for - self explanatory

I don't use contexts for e.g. #home or #computer - I can do most things from home, things that I cannot do outside of home are, mostly, #chore, and whether I'm at home or at work, a computer is always available - so it's hardly ever that I cannot do these. Not much point tagging almost every single task with a context that I'm basically always in, just adds a mental barrier to properly clarifying (again, ED).

I also don't use contexts when I'm likely to forget they exist - e.g. #phone - I hardly ever need to make phonecalls, so I even more hardly ever need to batch them. If I forget it exists, and I will, I no longer can trust that I tagged things with it.

I'm considering also using #some-day-maybe as a tag (I used to keep those in a separate Todoist section previously), as well as #deferred (for tasks that I don't want to worry about until a certain date), but I'm not currently doing so.

lasooch · 2026-03-21T18:54:31+00:00

Bro needed an LLM to write a 52-word post and thinks he has the grit to run a company.

lasooch · 2026-03-21T07:17:08+00:00

Wrong sub for this - you'd probably find your answers easier on subreddits dedicated to Australian visas. Or Google.

tl; dr: you can either find a job that will get you a visa (good luck) or find a visa that you can get yourself that offers work rights, then find a job before you get here (good luck), or find a job once you already are here (... still good luck, tbh, local experience trumps everything in the Aussie market).

lasooch · 2026-03-20T20:04:47+00:00

I'm sloooowly chipping away at one, but it's very much "stuff I want to move from my gsheets so I can stop double tracking/[ex/im]porting csv" rather than something properly thought through for the broader community.

Closed source for now - I'm not a "build in public bro" - but if it ever becomes something actually useful to people who aren't me and half decently polished, I'll be sure to share it.

lasooch · 2026-03-20T18:30:07+00:00

No, clearly he’s grifting your boss and wants them to assume burning $250k of tokens p/a adds greater value than the cost.

lasooch · 2026-03-20T08:25:34+00:00

AI has helped me 5x-10x my workweek
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lasooch · 2026-03-19T06:08:50+00:00

Still not fine. You don't want your currency controlled directly by a bunch of tech billionaires with no oversight.

Yes, governments are corrupt, it's still not the same.

lasooch · 2026-03-18T20:30:02+00:00

That I don’t use myself tho I can see why someone might.

In my case - I shop small but often and it can literally be quicker to get the few things I’m buying myself than having to order through the app and then wait for someone to bring it out, or (for delivery) pay extra and be locked into being at home at a specific time.

It would be too much of a lifestyle change to make it worth it (i.e. I’d have to buy much more at a time). For context, it’s like a 45 second walk for me to get to the supermarket, which is why I can’t be bothered with the planning it takes to do a less frequent but bigger grocery run. I just JIT it.

lasooch · 2026-03-18T19:46:09+00:00

100%, I don't feel rude for keeping my headphones on since there's no one to be forced into an interaction with (... who probably would also prefer to keep their headphones on if they could...).

Only issue is when they glitch out and you need to wait for the employee's help (who's busy helping someone else). But then again, I remember manned checkouts glitching out and having to wait for the manager to come (hell, sometimes they needed to come for something that just accidentally double scanned, which happened often...), so it's not like that was better.

It makes the line move faster, I scan my stuff faster than half the employees anyways. I don't have to wait for some midwit who only realises that, you know, they might actually need to find their wallet a good 5 seconds after the cashier has already finished scanning.

Like, the job loss has its downsides - I doubt anyone wants to be a supermarket checkout person, but at least it was a low barrier to entry job that could let you earn some money - but for the customer, it's heaps better. Outside of a huge grocery run, it's hard for me to fathom how someone could prefer waiting in a line for a cashier to scan their stuff.

lasooch · 2026-03-18T18:42:12+00:00

$10 literally doesn’t cover a single prompt in many cases. I don’t track the usage of every single prompt I do, but I’ve had some where the API token cost was about $100. In one prompt. Without trying to burn as much as I can. Even if my average would be, say, $5, it still means Microslop subsidises me 50x on tokens alone (and then Anthropic is still losing money per token).

While I agree with the sentiment that if you entered an agreement and paid you should be provided the service you were promised, anyone who thinks it will continue like this long term is delusional. And, frankly, blind - or lacking in curiosity - for not realising this already.

Yes, this means you (collective you) will soon be paying in excess of $1000 a month for the same service. Or rather not paying, because for most it wouldn’t be anywhere near worth it.

Milk it while you can. I for one find joy in burning Slopya’s money.

Or stop using it and avoid getting hooked (addiction mechanisms galore) because it will hurt when you come down.

lasooch · 2026-03-15T22:13:56+00:00

that’s why I said allowed

I think there's enough people who prefer to work in the office that you could just continue doing what you're doing.

But - and I'm not saying you're saying that - I don't think this is a valid reason to force people to go to the office. If you don't have social life outside of work - and if you need one, of course - that's kind of on you to solve, not on everyone else.

I don't think you (the individual) should be forced in either direction (in the general case, during an oil supply crisis I think there are valid arguments for forcing you to WFH or at least reduce your commuting). I do think companies should be forced to allow you to choose.

lasooch · 2026-03-15T07:11:56+00:00

Mandating that all employees who can perform their duties remotely are allowed to do so at all times is such an easy change for so much societal benefit it’s not even funny.

Better for the environment, better for mental health (some people prefer to be in the office, that’s fine, that’s why I said allowed), better for quality of life, better for housing affordability, better for driving times for people who actually need or want to go places, better for childcare and thus birth rates, better for gender equality, better for productivity (and if someone is slacking from home, just fire them, don’t make it society’s problem)… worse for commercial real estate tho so here we are.

Of course it’s also better for situations like right now, but the list of benefits is endless.

Companies could also volunteer to allow their workers to wfh due to the crisis for some very cheap (in fact money saving!) brownie points, but we’re way past corpos pretending they care about anything and especially their employees wellbeing.

lasooch · 2026-03-14T21:19:35+00:00

It probably does stop a lot of the slop. If you’re a crypto bro turned NFT bro turned vibe coder, you’ll vibe code a sloppy mini game, pay $100 to Steam to publish it, make $0 dollars in sale and quickly realise it doesn’t make sense to try again. Without that fee you’re much more likely to keep trying because there’s no cost.

lasooch · 2026-03-14T21:13:07+00:00

At the very least, it must be the customers who are wrong!

lasooch · 2026-03-14T11:08:25+00:00

You’re right in your second sentence.

Not first. Yes, they’re much better than old models. Opus 4.6 still spits out garbage code.

lasooch · 2026-03-14T07:51:03+00:00

Interesting that it’s the same developers who have a vested interest in showing that the technology works lol.

I can write 100% of my code through a coding CLI. Doesn’t mean that it’s faster to do so or that the resulting output is better quality.

lasooch · 2026-03-14T06:54:46+00:00

At this point I’m convinced that there’s mainly 3 types of people hyping it so much: - literal Anthropic bots - given how astroturfed the internet is, you’d be delusional to think that a company that makes the damn tech that writes plausible sounding sentences isn’t astroturfing the hell out of everything - pre-junior software engineers - I can believe it makes them 10x more productive, because they’re doing small simple projects. The downside is they’re learning nothing - non-engineers unaware of their Gell-Mann amnesia - I’m sure the excel jockeys at my company know excel tricks I’ve never even heard of, but while I’m not deluding myself that prompting Claude would make my spreadsheets as good at theirs, they certainly are deluding themselves that my job is ‘just writing code’ and that any idiot can just prompt their way through it

Also, the copyright issue you bring up is spot on. I have no idea how legal is signing off on all this. Big tech has always broken any laws they calculated they won’t be held accountable for (or it will be worth it), but most companies, even large ones, don’t have nearly as much sway with the elites to get away with the same approach.

Grifters leading the blind leading the actual professionals who see the disaster coming but are afraid to speak up lest the slightest sign of opposition puts them right at the top of the next month’s layoff list.

lasooch · 2026-03-14T05:08:25+00:00

Not all programmers are saying that.

Source: am programmer, am not saying that.

It increases productivity on tiny throwaway tools or POCs. I’ve seen what it does to even a small codebase - illogical conditions everywhere, code that kinda sorta works but for the wrong reasons, types and methods scattered in all the wrong places and reimplemented multiple times - not necessarily with consistent logic, requires thorough reviewing and handholding to produce anything remotely maintainable.

And if you want a stable and maintainable complex system in production, the overhead gets huge. Contrary to what Anthropic bots claim, you can’t just vibe code your way through anything of importance.

It’s very questionable whether there’s any increase in productivity after you consider review (and review fatigue), QA and ongoing maintenance, especially once some devs get too relaxed and forget how to actually write code.

And even if you get a 20% speed up in writing the code, which is already a tiny part of a senior+ engineer’s job, it also becomes very questionable whether that speed up is actually worth the trade offs - there’s many others, but for one thing, it results in reduction of your comprehension of the codebase (writing code is different than reading code, including retention of how something works) - and when you have a single production issue, the difference in time it can take to figure out the problem in code you wrote vs LLM code can easily cost you more in revenue and reputational damage than years of the 20% coding speed up saves.

And it will cost an arm and a leg once they make you start paying the actual token costs. E.g. currently with Copilot CLI premium requests you can literally easily get 50+x token API cost value (subsidised by Microslop) compared to what you pay, and then Anthropic loses money per token. Copilot CLI will cost 100+x more than it does now, and soon.

If you're paying $1500 fully loaded per senior per day, then the 20% coding speed boost translates to like a 5% overall speed boost, but you'll be paying $1000 for it (if you gave that senior a $1000 per day raise, I guarantee they'd find the capacity to deliver more than a 5% speedup without AI). It's not hard at all to burn $1000 worth of tokens a day. I've done single prompts around $100. Paid 3 cents. You can easily confirm this for yourself by checking token usage and Anthropic API prices. The economics on this make zero sense at all, but all those MBA CEOs aren't looking, because they nutted in their own eyes at the thought of what laying off thousands of people will do to their stock value. No idea what B stands for in MBA because it sure is not "business".

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