I'm not sure I like this at all, but hopefully it means the ChatGPT app won't leak memory and need to be restarted every few hours!

Am I doing something wrong, or is this OpenAI unifying things?

https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/

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I built this years ago and just used AI to give it a minor facelift.

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Do you think that would help? Something else?

I've taken some steps to mitigate this. I made a design brief (https://gist.github.com/aleshh/7435682311b6cb944bf18ecc3751f...) for LLMs to follow to kind of steer them in a particular direction. And I do spend time tweaking design with them.

But I agree it's not enough. The problem is, there are as I see it really two options here

(1) Guide the LLM and just spend more time on the visual stuff. The trouble is those refactors take as much time as adding major new features, sometimes more, because the LLM doesn't get it right and you gotta go around and around. So it takes a big time investment to go from something that's pretty good to something that's merely somewhat better.

(2) The other option is to do it all by hand. I sometimes do some of this, but the further along you get the harder it is, because the LLMS write lots of CSS, and (at least the last time I tried) refactoring their stuff is time-consuming and kind of a prerequisite to tweaking things.

Probably what I should do is expand on the design spec, and add it to AGENTS.md (instead of just throwing it in on the initial prompt) and generally try to get good on this aspect.

I should note that on my "real" project (https://flipper.fm), I spend a lot more time steering the design, creating a component library, Storybook, creating CSS classes for the LLM to use, etc etc. Again, this thing is a toy.

Sorry for the long answer, but you're really hitting on something real here.

- All the notes on fingering charts can be clicked and they play a sound

- Chords get a little playback button

- Compose mode gets its own playback controls

The sound is very basic, I'll see if I can fix that next.

I very much would like some way to preview what the sound and feel of certain combinations of chords and scales/tones is, but I haven't quite figured out how it might work.

Then I added charts for other instruments I mess around with: piano, cello, alto recorder.

There's a complexity toggle to go from basic harmony to extended/experimental stuff.

It's honestly still mostly a toy, but I thought other people might be interested in playing with it. Source is on github, so it's easy enough to run locally and fork.

https://github.com/aleshh/gtr-scales

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I like to track my drinkng, but the idea of "one drink" in a world where beer varies be tween 4.5 and 8% seemed weird. Also, a lot of existing drink trackers are (understandably) aimed at people who want to stop drinking.

Anyways, I made an iPhone app to fix these things. Free for five different drinks, one-time in app purchase to unlock unlimited, plus a few other features.

I actually hand-coded a version of this years ago; this version is pointing LLM's at that codebase and guiding it through the iOS 26 rewrite.

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