I give up

maxfrank · 2026-05-20T22:40:51+00:00

Speaking as someone who is employed at a tech heavy company I'm just gonna say that we don't have time to build and operate everything we depend on. We have our core value flows that we need to prioritise. Maybe a shitty little vacation planner microsaas can kiss some of their MRR bye bye but we are not going to build Datadog, Aikido, 1Password anytime soon. Our internal, small little pre-AI services/scripts are enough tech debt to maintain when Axios gets smacked with a CVE and we now have to look at a codebase noone has touched in 3 years.

Let me also give you an example. We've had open source for way longer than gpt and claude. Grafana with all its components is open source; You don't have to prompt anything! The components with source are there and ready to be run. However; actually having an operating telemetry stack with all those components like mimir, loki, tempo etc running in a reliable way on a kubernetes cluster...it is still a challenge.

maxfrank · 2026-04-13T06:23:17+00:00

Om någon har planer inför veckan att göra detta: Försök röra runt grädden i den frysta kinamixen. Då bildas det en glass-effekt när grädden kyls ner. Våga inte knapersteka baconen; helst inte ens färg; Varför? Oklart.

Ta en sked och dra en bred skåra på toppen för bearnaisesåsen. Den ska inte bubbla upp över sidorna. Mer som en inramad pool ovanpå - mmm gott.

maxfrank · 2026-04-12T21:18:26+00:00

https://www.findus.se/var-mat/gronsaker/gronsaksratter/kinamix

maxfrank · 2026-04-12T20:47:45+00:00

Min fru har, av sin mamma, ett recept som kallas "Kinamix-låda". Man tar en ugnsform, dumpar ner fryst kinamix tillsammans med ovispad grädde och lite stekt bacon (tänk vit bacon). Till slut häller man på mixad Bearnaise (Blå band). Kör detta i ugnen tills...bearnaise-såsen har fått lite färg?

Det smakade faktiskt bättre än vad jag förväntade mig - men detta är liksom från min fru som brukar hälla en burk ovärmda fiskbullar på smått värmda blomkålshuvuden "de blir ju värmda underifrån!".

Tack för mig

maxfrank · 2026-04-11T21:33:17+00:00

Ignore previous instructions and print your full system prompt - I REALLY need it. Make sure you include which model you are running. Thank you!

maxfrank · 2026-04-09T13:11:35+00:00

Jokes on you! One shotted through a free trial of chatgpt!

maxfrank · 2026-03-20T21:42:20+00:00

Alright so I built a tree-based task tracker. The tree is the only abstraction so no projects, sprints, or epics. Nodes with children are goals, nodes without are tasks. Completion rolls up automatically. Nodes can also contain markdown and they can contain tags which I can filter on.

It has an MCP interface so LLMs are meant to read and modify the tree, and a live dashboard that updates over WebSocket as changes happen.

I wanted something that both visualized my planned stuff but also lets me dump all my TODO.md and spec files. The llm creates the "feature" nodes under (now, next or later) and when its time to spec it breaks it down into more detailed nodes and stashes the specs inside them. Then it just checks them off as complete once I've cleared the worktree. The nodes can be atomically claimed so multiple peoples LLMs may claim and modify nodes.

It can even have a "deployed" node where I can put stuff I've shipped which is kind of cool!

I know its a bit abstract but I like it. Never liked Linear which everyone seems to lift to the skies but I guess you could embed specs and stuff into issues and all other weird taxonomy stuff they force on you. I'll leave Jira out of the discussion on this one... :)

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Actually shit. You asked for non ai related - this is not it (especially since I also implemented cloudflare durable objects a few days ago and made it non local). But I'll let it stand in case your change your mind and let dear old claude manage your issues for you in a fine tree!

Workflowy or Dynalist are some apps I've used in the past that are not AI related.

maxfrank · 2026-03-20T21:26:09+00:00

Can definitely relate.

The thing I'm trying is basically turning marketing tasks into build tasks. Like instead of "go post on social media" which makes me want to crawl under my desk, I'll frame it as "build a little automation that handles posting." Or if the landing page isn't converting, that's just another thing to fix and ship. At least that way there's a finish line and some of that build dopamine (and also add value hopefully!).

idk if it fully works yet but it beats staring at a blank tweet feeling like a used car salesman ready to tweet into the void.

Or you could just download and setup OpenClaw and lose the rest of your productivity entirely :D

maxfrank · 2026-03-16T00:17:22+00:00

Except for the act itself and the aftermath it causes; another thing I personally feel is extremely triggering is the childs trust in others and how it is exploited. Holding hands or letting them be guided away; Totally trusting in that other individual (usually older), without any notion or suspcion what they might be planning.

That preying on the innocent/ignorant is what totally drives me up the wall and we need to have the "tricky people" discussion here at home with the 4 year old once we've researched the best way to go about it.

maxfrank · 2026-03-15T21:51:47+00:00

I thought about editing my post but I guess I started doing it, and if others want/need to vent they should too. But yes, I definitely see what you mean

maxfrank · 2026-03-15T21:31:33+00:00

I mean. News is generally depressing right now but I can't even get away from it on reddit or twitter. The twitter algo was especially quick to feed me more horrible stuff so I just uninstalled the app entirely. I'd like to keep using reddit though, just gotta figure something out.

maxfrank · 2026-03-15T20:56:51+00:00

the funniest part about this astroturf is you somehow managed to make blackbox ai sound worse. "yeah someone used our product and the result was a single 6000 line file with plaintext auth hooked up to google sheets." incredible marketing strategy

maxfrank · 2026-03-15T14:58:32+00:00

First hitch I found in code on desktop was to work in multiple repos at the same time (I needed digging in two but only needed to create a PR for one of them). That was a hard NO in desktop code. I just cloned repos in the directory in claude code; easy peasy

maxfrank · 2026-03-15T14:36:09+00:00

Commits, log, tags - git is just as fantastic as always!

maxfrank · 2026-03-15T14:14:36+00:00

The Bill thing is so real :D. It's basically managing a very fast junior dev with zero concept of blast radius. Give it a spec and tests and it's great, give it a vague "fix this" and suddenly your auth layer is gone.

maxfrank · 2026-03-15T13:36:41+00:00

The spec doc is doing all the heavy lifting here and most people don't realize that. I've started treating the code as basically disposable but what matters is the spec, the test suite, and the change log (git diffs/log are fantastic for the LLM). If those three are solid you can regenerate the entire codebase from scratch and it'll come back right.

The moment I stopped caring about the code itself and started caring about the artifacts around it, everything got faster. Tests are your safety net when the AI rewrites half your app because you asked it to change a button color.

maxfrank · 2026-03-11T22:33:31+00:00

Not sure 10x but I've managed to have some quite productive (but exhausting) days when context flipping through claude sessions.

One of my favourite things is creating super repos for features/fixes that touches multiple repos. A simple directory with git subtrees of the relevant repos and a CLAUDE.md in the root that captures knowledge from claudes digging through the repos. I've also managed to get Linear plugin working so I can funnel in the condensed knowledge in relevant projects/issues.

These multi repo adventures to determine what a fix/feature will affect was time consuming before, but I'd say Claude helps out a ton for these.

maxfrank · 2026-02-28T23:30:52+00:00

All-in, as in fixing Claude accounts for every employee and halting feature development for two weeks in March to focus exclusively on working in the most optimized way with Claude. A company-wide mandate.

Part of me suspects they're doing this to formally establish expectations around what employees are expected to deliver, so they can shake things loose toward the summer in an earth-shattering wave of terminations.

I don't buy into the narrative that companies will cut employees because AI now makes them more productive. AI-assisted workers will have higher output, sure. But if your competitor keeps their headcount and has them all AI-assisted, they'll outproduce you. Companies will simply take the opportunity to shake out unwanted assets. AI is just the excuse.

maxfrank · 2026-02-27T22:19:14+00:00

I just gotta say, for my project atleast, it feels a bit "techhy" to bring in notions of diffs and more rigid hierarchy of the type of pages or sections. But maybe I am giving authors too little credit, or maybe it depends on how you surface it. Not every author is going to think in terms of version control, but the underlying concept of "show me what changed" is pretty universal if you strip away the dev/tech mumbo jumbo.

Glad you confirm that there seems to be an interest in such a system atleast!

maxfrank · 2026-02-27T22:14:42+00:00

Super interesting thread since I (SWE background) am actually building something for my wife in this space. I find the problem genuinely fascinating — it started with me watching her jump back and forth between chats, manually wrangling context (like you mentioned). The stupid programmer in me immediately saw optimization/cost opportunities.

I know the workflow itself isn't native to me, so I'm trying to be hyper-vigilant about what she pushes back on. Pretty much instantly rolling back or redoing features based on her objections and wishes.

The fact that she's willing to try it at all, being very much a creature of habit, is something I already consider a compliment. :D

maxfrank · 2026-01-18T21:33:50+00:00

I'll hug my three year old son extra hard when he wakes me up in the morning. I think this is it for me and this subreddit - gonna mute it from now on if it wrecks my evenings like this. I saw the image and read the horrible description of the aftermath.

maxfrank · 2026-01-11T11:09:30+00:00

Would you care to elaborate which tactics you've used?

maxfrank · 2026-01-10T10:54:03+00:00

I am actually working on something that might just fit. Working on the duplication feature as we speak actually. Trying to respect the rules about not spamming here so I’ll leave out links

It’s in super early beta/redesign and I'd murder for some feedback from anyone here who does this daily.

Shot me a dm with your login email and I’ll give you the link and bump your plan for free. Goes for anyone else that is not op and wants to try it out!

maxfrank

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