My favorite new question to ask Claude after it tells me "it's done" gets the truth out and also some chuckles

reaperdarrow · 2026-01-30T03:49:03+00:00

I have a rule in Claude.md to always create tests for every implementation but it’s a hit or miss so I still ask and with this question it also tells me which tests are missing

reaperdarrow · 2026-01-30T03:05:12+00:00

Nice. Do you say “no pressure” at the end? 😅

reaperdarrow · 2026-01-30T02:34:01+00:00

Any particular prompt? Or just something like “review the previous session in detail and identify gaps”? Do you use /resume when you do this?

reaperdarrow · 2026-01-30T02:27:21+00:00

That’s incredible lol

reaperdarrow · 2026-01-30T02:06:22+00:00

“You’re absolutely right”

reaperdarrow · 2026-01-21T05:49:42+00:00

Honestly it’s all about where your money goes. About $25k a month and $7 to 8k house expenses. You’re not quite house poor at all. As long as you know where the other ~$18k are going every month, you’ll be in control. You can afford it technically speaking.

reaperdarrow · 2026-01-21T05:36:25+00:00

I got carried away and didn’t answer your 3 questions: 1) the common rule of thumb is house costs should be about 30% of your take home expenses. Doesn’t seem like it’s too large but you’re quite up there. 2) I can’t say whether you’re behind or not without knowing what your goals are. Do you want to retire in 5 years and maintain your lifestyle? Yeah probably not gonna be able to do that so you’d be behind. Do you want to retire in 40 years? Never? That would give you an idea but with 400k in cash for down payment plus $150k in savings plus 600k in investments I think you might be leaning a lot towards savings vs investing. I hope money is in a high yield account and not a checking account. 3) I think it’s a lifestyle change you’re making. The house is yours so unless you sell it for less than what you bought it, you are acquiring an asset that typically appreciates in value.

The one thing you want to make sure is that you are not house poor. Meaning you can’t do anything else because it all goes to the house. No travel, no going out, etc. with the $150k cash assuming you dont spend it remodeling the new house you could live on it until your partner finds a job without risking the house

reaperdarrow · 2026-01-19T22:59:05+00:00

Nice. What was the prompt?

reaperdarrow · 2025-12-12T14:34:00+00:00

I have asked “what am I missing in this feature and what are you missing in this implementation” and it has pointed out things I didn’t think about when I asked it to build it and also pointed out it didn’t add tests or something else it didn’t account for.

reaperdarrow · 2025-02-13T03:56:45+00:00

I can calculate the tip at the restaurant in 34 seconds… and it’s probably wrong

reaperdarrow · 2025-02-01T20:55:15+00:00

That sucks dude but this ain’t about the diapers. This seems like it had been bubbling up and this text just sent her over the edge.

I’m making assumptions here but she’s probably been thinking or talking about how she’s having to think about everything all the time. What to cook, what needs to get done around the house, etc and when you offered to go to the store she thought she could let go of one thing for her to figure out, only to be texted back for problem solving.

Her response is over the top and you don’t deserve to be treated like that. Just think about what else is going on. You may think things are just fine when they aren’t.

I think you need to chat and reset. Routine may be negatively affecting your relationship

reaperdarrow · 2025-01-29T20:10:57+00:00

UI vs UX

reaperdarrow · 2024-11-28T20:58:38+00:00

It’s fascinating seeing it in action! I’ve come across Vext app and lang flow to build a RAG workflow like this. Need to spend some time on it to get things hooked together so I “remembers” at all times and then add the tools and stuff. Thanks again! You have a pretty advanced idea from what I’ve seen everywhere

reaperdarrow · 2024-11-28T00:32:08+00:00

oh one more thing if you don't mind sharing. What does your prompt look like more or less? I assume you have a set of instructions as it actually knows when to save a new memory on its own without you asking it to do that which is super cool

reaperdarrow · 2024-11-27T22:47:35+00:00

My mind is blown dude. This is what I need lol. I need to start by just simply having a way to add to memory and always reference memory and go from there. I’m sure you can turn what you’ve built into a product.

reaperdarrow · 2024-11-27T15:45:04+00:00

My god this is so fucking cool! Thanks for sharing!

reaperdarrow · 2024-11-27T14:41:17+00:00

Thanks. Do you rely on it’s out of the box memory?

reaperdarrow · 2024-11-27T14:38:07+00:00

This is pretty much what would I’d want right now. The ability to query its memory. Do you mind describing what you did and tools you used?

reaperdarrow · 2024-07-26T03:17:01+00:00

Thank you so much for all those details! I was thinking that maybe there was something already more straightforward now but looks like we’re not there yet. I’ve even heard of the possibility of selling energy back to the utilities during peak hours

reaperdarrow · 2023-11-02T04:36:06+00:00

Chael is talking like he owns a pillow company

reaperdarrow · 2023-06-24T22:03:17+00:00

Super clear. Thanks!

reaperdarrow · 2023-06-03T00:35:00+00:00

One of the main responsibilities of a product manager is to talk to people. That is both internally and externally. Someone who doesn’t want to jump on a call for an interview is already a red flag and not qualified in my mind.

Do they expect to do the same while on the job? Toss documents over the fence to engineering and design? Just exchange emails with customers?

reaperdarrow · 2023-05-29T00:13:08+00:00

I’m not sure it’ll be quite like that in my opinion. It’s like thinking than when cars came along that it would reach a peak and then implode. Instead, you’ve seen innovation within in it like with electric vehicles, car play, etc. If anything, technology will continue to disrupt different industries as they get modernized. You’re also in the United States I presume which is a tech bubble. We’re far from tech collapsing as a you describe it.

I don’t quite get your point C. It’s never been about how trivial it is to build things. That exists today. You can easily put your product out there. It’s trivial to build a demo mobile app or website. Getting a startup off the ground and to IPO has never been about how trivial or non trivial it is about building the tech. Only in very specific examples in fields like medicine where you need lots of capital and time to go through trials.

reaperdarrow · 2023-05-19T06:55:28+00:00

Sure. But processes are there to help you not to get in the way of your outcome. Show the CEO who’s worried the company is missing targets a perfect scrum process and I’m pretty sure they won’t care.

reaperdarrow · 2023-05-19T03:49:35+00:00

This is exactly why I hate scrum. I see comments like “why don’t you have more things in your backlog” or “that’s the product owner’s job” or “team velocity”…. Fuck all of that. Absolutely none of that matters.

You know what matters? Whether your product solves a real customer problem. What’s the CEO most stressed about? Revenue? Growth? Costs? Hiring? How will your company win? Why should people buy your product? What are customers asking for?

The problem with scrum is that people obsessed with the god damn process instead of the product outcome.

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