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I think AI didn't do this. Open source, libraries, cloud, frameworks and agile conspired to do this.

Why solve a problem when you can import library / scale up / use managed kuberneted / etc.

The menu is great and the number of problems needing deep thought seems rare.

There might be deep thought problems on the requirements side of things but less often on the technical side.

The idea behind that phrase is not that is necessarily easy... but to decomplicate the other extreme where you are choosing this superfood and avoiding that other veg because it is "bad for you". It gives a simple heuristic for healthy living. It helps make it less daunting.

For example what do I have for breakfast? Oh let's boil and egg amd grab a carrot and corn on the cob. Or whatever.

What do I do in the supermarket? Meats, veg, bit of fruit maybe bit of dairy. Am I obessing over avacado vs. pear. Nope. Chicken vs. beef? No. Chocolate bar vs carrot? easy choice.

Now probably once you get thay square you can do harder stuff like food reaction / allergy testing and so on.

Now read your profile link.

Something like this can be somewhat useful (not saying I would pay though!)

I would like to have 1000 or so vetted docs (can manually or AI vet). E.g. public API doc > internal API doc > Internal RFC > Some guys internal note they made public.

Take RFC and higher links and surface the ones I need for thw project. Chuck them in the Jira ticket.

That would be handy. But it isn't my biggest problem. So not sure how that squares up. With AI I can build this internally in a bespoke way (this is the general disruption AI has on any SaaS idea lol!) so not sure what sauce you would need.

The other AI problem is you are fighting the bitter lesson. By October CC might do this as a one sentence one shot.

I will answer then check the bio :). Mom test and all that.

So with compliance even connecting a tool I download to an approved LLM is difficult. I need to get approval. If the tool is just a tool and doesn't use AI (and thus send out private data) it is easier. I think that is a problem they should solve i.e. give a safe LLM endpoint and let me choose my tools but alas.

I think what saves me time is difficult to say. Well organized docs OR an AI that can do that to AGI levels of intellegence. Fuzzy isn't helpful (I already have lots of fuzzy options). I need bulletproof correct info.

The pain isn't in the clicks to find info it is in understanding what I am reading and if it is relevant.

That is subtly wrong for things like social media and AI. 50 year olds can embrace and use these things. However the dangers of these things are well accepted by all adults IMO not just older people. Many of the AI saftey crowd are young.

Google, Facebook, Instagram, Stripe, Whatsapp, Coinbase, PIntrest, Amazon, Dropbox did well did they have a couple of team leads in US and rest in India at the start?

(To be clear: nothing against Indian talent. My point is you don't need to compete with global outsourcing unless the value proposition isn't high so you need cheaper devs)

I am guessing the choice here is do you want the kernel to handle this and is that more performant than just managing a bunch of regular empty files and a home grown file allocation table.

Or even just bunch of little files representing segments of larger files.

Apple 1 launch price $600. Googles ai said 1k investment at 1980's IPO worth 2.5m today. So if you invested 600 that is 1.5m. It would have sat idle 1976 to 1980.

So board #0 beat the stock price but only just. And I am comparing board 0 to any old apple 1.

1.Where does your “second brain” break down the most?

At work my 2nd brain is confluence. Most info goes into shared spaces.

Often search doesn't find what I need easily so search becomes a context switch (sub mission)

Rovo can be helpful though. Where I work has good culture of documenting things which helps.

2.What best represents “active project context” for you today?

Jira task status 80%; Plus Slack save for laters 15%; Then a confluence todo list 5%

Which one would you actually allow a tool to read?

All of them

3.What’s your hard “no” for an AI that suggests actions from your notes/links? (pick 1–2)

Activation energy to get a 3rd party AI approved in my org for compliance is enormous. Plus we dogfood our own.

It won't happen until you become the next Cursor or Loveable and even then maybe not. (we can't run CC lol!)

I think the ivory towers because managers mostly manage by how much of the plan can we ship. It is too radical to have developers take time from that to talk to customers which is a shame for the developer, customer and business.