I just ended up making my own highly opinionated tool, based on my workflow, but it's designed for 1 developer/owner. It exports into markdown for easy communication to AI agents. https://mandate.run
Since the future is AI agents, I'm thinking this works better than trying to retrofit an existing flow. I can just plug it into a MCP or something later to delegate the tasks to AI and track.
I feel like the problem with a lot of paid tools is that the money is in medium sized teams (~30 or so people). Solo types like Workflowy and Pivotal Tracker aren't very profitable and there's a strong pull to enshittification.
I'd like the delay to kick in after voting is no longer allowed. It's very much a thing on reddit but mobbing becomes part of the addiction cycle as well.
In the same way that typing is a job requirement. It's just how you interface with the code now.
A decent company wouldn't necessarily look for someone who can type faster or commit 100x more code like the vibers do, but look into how you understand the code.
Brazilian jiu jitsu. It's a martial art about falling and not hitting your head on the ground.
Much of the early practice is being able to be pushed back and keep your head up, or rolling about without risking your neck. It fixed my back, neck, and a bunch of core muscles in a painful month or so of training, compared to years of physio, massages, and exercises.
To be realistic, doing neck exercises is about as fun as doing math without any exams. Martial arts triggered a kind of survival instinct.
It's not strictly tech. But tech tends to be both new and intellectual. Sometimes it can be an old phenomenon but also curious; people often just paste Wikipedia links here and they trend.
From the guidelines:
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Most of my time working with startups was dealing with these repetitive things that nobody had time to do. Humans somehow have the time to work two jobs and then update the wiki on MMOs they play, but never the time to do it on that one day job.
We considered it before in a past job when cost cutting. But nobody wants the boss to know when they're playing DOTA.
More seriously though, Slack was one of those tools that just held context of everything. All the engineering decisions and past error messages. Discord potentially could, but it doesn't seem to built for this use case.
Can it handle a thousand channels? It sounds ridiculous, but companies scale, and so do observation tools, customer service, and such.
I joined an elite gaming clan that operated on Slack once because it was easy to spin multiple channels per player and handle notifications. Discord potentially could, but channel management is a lot harder. Though that clan eventually moved over to Discord because nobody wants to pay $ per head.
Most people seem to think that phenomenon is not the same thing. People have shown by experimenting with different prompts that even in Mandarin, Claude correctly says it’s Claude when it is doing something for you. But if you ask it about its identity, it sometimes says DeepSeek. The current theory is it just has run into Chinese content that has chat logs that often have a DeepSeek model answering that it is DeepSeek. But the inconsistency in different prompts suggests this is something different from distillation.
Since the future is AI agents, I'm thinking this works better than trying to retrofit an existing flow. I can just plug it into a MCP or something later to delegate the tasks to AI and track.
I feel like the problem with a lot of paid tools is that the money is in medium sized teams (~30 or so people). Solo types like Workflowy and Pivotal Tracker aren't very profitable and there's a strong pull to enshittification.
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