So, yes but no. Not that I care, but the answer to the above question is a no, and should start with No.

And I have learnt a ton of lessons from self help books like the one I mentioned above, Arete, "how to make friends and influence people", Atomic Habits and others, without looking to fix any unhappiness, flaws of myself or whatnot. Was just curious what other, more experience people have learned about life that I can learn without having to wait 20-30+ years.

Even though they portray some of the benefits of this app as unique to desktop apps, they're not (e.g. storing data on device, offline mode etc.).

Am not a hater. Love Raycast. Saw the post and opened the link intrigued what they came up with and was somewhat disappointed tbh. Good luck to them anyway!

  Design Philosophy Create apps that feel premium, polished, and worthy of being featured on Dribbble's most popular shots. Every pixel matters. White space is your friend. Less is more, but what remains must be perfect.

  Visual Design Principles

  Color & Theming

  • Use sophisticated, limited color palettes (2-3 primary colors maximum) ...

Savings from Cuts

€11,048

€60/mo @ 8%

within 10 years. That's HUGE! While the 60 Euro a month seems kind of irrelevant on its own.

Edit: Just remembered that sometimes, I see claude running the build step in two terminals, side-by-side at nearly the same time :D

I added something related to this idea to my life-planning app: what if for projections. I track all my expenses/incomes/investments in my app. I then can with 1 click run a scenario where I move certain expenses to investments. I.e. cancelling netflix for 10 years, or xbox gamepass etc. and seeing what it would actually do to my 10 year projection (which already accounts for ETFs/Stock with variable return rates etc.). i.e.:

Exclude Recurring Expenses Simulate cutting these expenses and investing the savings Redirecting €19.99/month to investments

Then I see black on white what would happen if I get rid of all the 'small' subscriptions, on a visual chart. It's eye opening when one selects items that add up to a ~100 Euro ++ a month.

I know everyone is different thus my curiosity about other peoples experience!

I made similar experience. Downloaded all sorts of tools, IDE's for the new era of development. Other than claude code in cli and occasional uses of codex (because have free tokens), nothing else stuck. I can just split my terminal effortlessly how many times I want, write/speak to the terminal with any custom request etc. And once someone comes up with a clever idea on top of what claude has today, I reckon they'll add it one way or another within the next weeks.

bayesian curve meme fits here rather well:

- claude code for everything, custom IDE's/tools, claude code for everything.

[0] https://github.com/AutoMaker-Org/automaker [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H_t78QcueA&t=382s

There's plenty of situations where one doesn't want to stay at the PC for AI to finish its thing. Now we can just go about our life and check in from the phone. IMO great feature. Would've used it many times in the past but didn't want to be bothered with some wrapper around CC that perhaps did it already.

You can see my app in action here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119434

While I can share the code and it might make a good foundation for forks, creating one from scratch with claude's $100 subscription will take ~2-3 weeks to get it into the state you see in the video. And that is me prompting the LLM for ~30-60 minutes most days of those 2-3 weeks.

I yield similar benefits at work. I can wow management with LLM assited/vibe coded apps. What previously would've taken a multi-man team weeks of planning and executing, stand ups, jour fixes, architecture diagrams, etc. can now be done within a single week by myself. For the type of work I do, managers do not care whether I could do it better if I'd code it myself. They are amazed however that what has taken months previously, can be done in hours nowadays. And I for sure will try to reap benefits of LLMs for as long as they don't replace me rather than being idealistic and fighting against them.