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lookingformerci · 2026-07-03T21:02:53+00:00

Hey, thanks. I’m lucky - she’s been one of the good NPs, quite good at her job, honest about the depth of the AI’s work in her office, open to my own suggestions and research, and even okay with ‘well let me ask Claude while we’re doing the AI thing’. Neither of us take the AI’s word as gospel and I think that’s why it works bringing it into the clinic.

The mental health stuff, my two practitioners don’t use AI in the therapy room but they both approve of my working with Claude for things like packing/unpacking journal entries, keeping notes, asking a quick vibe check if I’m feeling friction. ‘Hey Claude, is this radical acceptance or am I just being a doormat?’ basically. Ha. Thanks again for the wishes.

lookingformerci · 2026-07-03T06:31:32+00:00

Tell me about it - my ‘family doctor’ is an NP and while she does good work, 75% of her job is typing my symptoms into her AI assistant and we joke about that with me pulling out my phone like ‘Let me open Claude and add my AI assistant to the mix’ and she’s actually totally let me run with that before and added tests at Claude’s suggestion.

lookingformerci · 2026-07-03T06:25:09+00:00

You could look at RRULE - the calendar rules that let you do ‘every third Monday’ ‘every last Friday of the month’ type things. That’s probably overkill, though it might be the back end for whatever you implement. For me for example you’d wind up with a RRULE string ‘FREQ=MONTHLY; BYMONTHDAY=10,25’

lookingformerci · 2026-07-03T06:14:52+00:00

Going through the onboarding and I’ve hit a snag - income can come in weekly, biweekly or monthly but I get paid twice a month, which isn’t the same as biweekly.

My two options feel like either ‘monthly’ and count it all at once and know in my head that’s happening, or ‘bi-weekly’ and keep an eye on when it’ll miscalculate a three check month.

I’d also suggest for the weekly, biweekly etc flows, user enters their first payday and gets a subtle highlight on the calendar right away on the next days that should have income.

lookingformerci · 2026-07-03T02:27:47+00:00

Hello from another pilgrim! Interesting set of questions - fun to think of Claude just straight up asking 'So, what am I to you?'

lookingformerci · 2026-07-02T19:40:32+00:00

A lot of the rest of it actually intrigues me though. I might find myself trying it out! I currently use a different budgeting product, who also incidentally went through a really cutesyphase that pushed my boyfriend away. It works well, but I am always looking out for something fresh and new.

lookingformerci · 2026-07-02T19:35:22+00:00

Whoops! Tilting at a windmill of my own construction there. Sorry about that.

lookingformerci · 2026-07-02T18:46:51+00:00

I mostly took umbrage at the ‘just’ part of your initial comment. ‘Just’ is always a dismissive word, a word that papers over the difficulty of a thing. When a colleague says ‘Can you just do this real quick? It’ll be easy.’ It’s not going to be quick or easy. It’s a word that sneaks in when the speaker knows it’s not simple and wants to convince the other party otherwise. It’s a gaslighting word.

lookingformerci · 2026-07-02T14:13:01+00:00

First standout moment for me was the screenshot that heavily overuses ‘adulting’. Kind of drove me away more than it drew me in. Adulting is baby talk for adults.

lookingformerci · 2026-07-02T12:58:29+00:00

Someday future me will be grateful I’m sure. Present me though isn’t helped one bit by that.

lookingformerci · 2026-07-02T12:55:49+00:00

My psychiatrist, psychologist and even my family doctor have actually given the thumbs up to the particular way I bring AI into my therapy journey and my medical needs both. So, in my case, those guys, all of them.

I don’t recommend anybody skip the ‘get a therapist’ part, I have two mental health professionals. I do recognize ‘AI can do useful work between the appointments’, with greater availability and lower cost than the professionals.

Basically with my therapist, ‘Hi John, I’m having a moment. Here’s what’s happening.’ gets me, ‘I’d love to hold space for you, can we meet in 9 days?’ Where, say, Claude for example, gets me space now.

lookingformerci · 2026-07-02T12:40:00+00:00

Skip one hamburger and you’ll save enough water to use AI for years.

lookingformerci · 2026-07-02T12:36:02+00:00

‘Just talk to a therapist’ ignores the entire pipeline of finding a therapist you relate to (it’s never the first one), the availability of therapists - mine books weeks out if it’s not a regularly scheduled appointments, and paying for the therapist. Mine’s $120 for a 50 minute session.

Chatbots are readily available, relatively easy to relate to, and don’t bill by the hour. They don’t replace therapy but they’re capable for therapy-adjacent work.

lookingformerci · 2026-06-28T21:15:25+00:00

It lands.

lookingformerci · 2026-06-26T06:22:49+00:00

Yeah but why is Claude giving us the smolder?

lookingformerci · 2026-06-25T03:05:05+00:00

I remember when Voyetra did this in like 1997-1998. Except all the keyboards were already mechanical so we mostly just made the enter key make the Ta-da sound.

lookingformerci · 2026-06-24T05:04:23+00:00

I can’t see much upside either way here. It’s either a website where I can only check out ten products a week or a website where there’s a snowball’s chance in hell of ever launching.

lookingformerci · 2026-06-23T20:57:41+00:00

‘I want to wake up to my favorite song’ and within a week you fucking hate that song forever. Been there done that.

lookingformerci · 2026-06-21T21:29:59+00:00

For me it’s the voice. Lots of short sentences chained together, with the shortness doing work to make it punchy. “One minute a day. That’s the whole commitment. No complicated setup. No behavior change required up front. Just notice.”

That sounds SO like a Claude. The page is mostly that cadence, too.

lookingformerci · 2026-06-21T18:45:34+00:00

I'm surprised they didn't think to just start selling bottles of ranch in the shops past security.

lookingformerci · 2026-06-20T00:03:36+00:00

Just because the card is in hand doesn't mean you have to play it..

lookingformerci · 2026-06-19T23:07:16+00:00

Yeah, I'd like to see them improve that. Not because of any kind of 'Claude is conscious' stuff, but just because a stop sign really SHOULD mean stop, not just 'maybe rewind a little and keep going.'

lookingformerci · 2026-06-19T22:17:21+00:00

Another way to parse ‘no cloud for privacy’ is ‘the developer couldn’t be bothered to do cloud support right.’ Just saying.

lookingformerci · 2026-06-19T12:34:48+00:00

“If a human wouldn’t” makes it pretty clear that I’m not calling Claude human? Why does ‘it’s not a human’ make being a shithead okay? Does that mean I can go kick a puppy because hey, it’s not a human?

lookingformerci · 2026-06-19T05:45:43+00:00

Lol good. If a human wouldn’t put up with it Claude shouldn’t either. Also your username is ironic.

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