Wife here. Pre-agentic coding I had automated a bunch of low-hanging fruit via low code tools (mainly Pipedream and Airtable) but I never had enough time to do everything that I wanted to.
Lately I've really been getting into agentic coding (first with Antigravity and now with Claude Code) and I'm really excited about what I'm now able to accomplish on a very small budget of both money and time! It's been a big boon to my ability to automate things that really ought to be the computer's job.
Plus with LLMs, the scope of what is properly the computer's job has increased by a lot! I've created a couple of Pipedream workflows that send freight bills and customer POs to an LLM to extract data. Now I just have to review and occasionally make a few tweaks vs. having to enter everything by hand.
Since building those, my main focus has been on building better tools for myself and the team, such as a little web-app for sales reps to create and send their own purchase orders vs. having to go through accounting (aka me). The nice thing about vibe coding vs. hooking together a bunch of low-code tools is that I can customize the UI to make it exactly what we need.
My current project is building a back-office app to help streamline the process of managing incoming shipping paperwork. This is a much fuzzier problem than regular invoice processing because it's a bunch of different types of documents (BOLs, packing lists, scale tickets) and a lot of judgment calls to make. I don't expect to hand it all off to the LLM but I plan to have the LLM do the first pass of transcribing the data. Then I'll make the human-review portion as ergonomic as possible for myself.
I have a first draft up-and-running but the default interface that Claude Code came up with is not very good. I'm currently discussing the UI design with Claude in chat mode, narrating my manual process as I do it to help flesh out all the details of all the different sources of info and what decisions need to be made.[0] Once we're done I'll ask for a spec that I can take back to Claude Code for implementation.
I think the lack of depth perception in a 2D photo is another big factor in why the magic of a forest can’t be captured. There are so many different layers that all get flattened!
In high school I was at a friend’s house. Half of the bookshelf was filled with books I loved and the other half with books I’d never heard of! I felt like a prospector striking gold :) Cool to think that we have something similar on demand now!
I don’t like multi-page forms when I’m not able to see at a glance all the info needed to fill out the form. Though I guess if my progress is durably saved that makes it not so bad. The worst is when I fill out a bunch of stuff and then realize it’s asking for info I don’t have, and after I get the info I have to fill everything out again from scratch!
We set up a “kid laptop” for our kids (ages 3, 6 and 9) that has a short list of allowed websites and a curated set of installed programs.
We treat it like any other toy: they can pretty much play with it whenever they want for as long as they want. Of course they have to share it between the three of them, so there’s a natural limit there.
Every so often we’ll add something new; most recently I installed SimAnt after we were watching ants in our backyard.
My impression was she just brings the typewriters into class as a one-day novelty thing per course, not that it becomes the norm for the whole semester. The goal is to give the students a taste of what the old-fashioned way is like, to get them thinking about it.
Lately I've really been getting into agentic coding (first with Antigravity and now with Claude Code) and I'm really excited about what I'm now able to accomplish on a very small budget of both money and time! It's been a big boon to my ability to automate things that really ought to be the computer's job.
Plus with LLMs, the scope of what is properly the computer's job has increased by a lot! I've created a couple of Pipedream workflows that send freight bills and customer POs to an LLM to extract data. Now I just have to review and occasionally make a few tweaks vs. having to enter everything by hand.
Since building those, my main focus has been on building better tools for myself and the team, such as a little web-app for sales reps to create and send their own purchase orders vs. having to go through accounting (aka me). The nice thing about vibe coding vs. hooking together a bunch of low-code tools is that I can customize the UI to make it exactly what we need.
My current project is building a back-office app to help streamline the process of managing incoming shipping paperwork. This is a much fuzzier problem than regular invoice processing because it's a bunch of different types of documents (BOLs, packing lists, scale tickets) and a lot of judgment calls to make. I don't expect to hand it all off to the LLM but I plan to have the LLM do the first pass of transcribing the data. Then I'll make the human-review portion as ergonomic as possible for myself.
I have a first draft up-and-running but the default interface that Claude Code came up with is not very good. I'm currently discussing the UI design with Claude in chat mode, narrating my manual process as I do it to help flesh out all the details of all the different sources of info and what decisions need to be made.[0] Once we're done I'll ask for a spec that I can take back to Claude Code for implementation.
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