I realized I have a bad habit of dropping abbreviations figuring the audience gets it. IYKYK kind of BS. I dropped IWKYM in a conversation with a friend who hasn't read "Dungeon Crawler Carl" and she called me out with a WTF. This group is getting large and people are coming at this (AI, large language models, programming, etc.) with varying degrees of comfort and familiarity. Feeling like I've coded since the stoneage, I grew up with this stuff. From vacuum-tube tape-drive building-sized mainframes to tiny little nano computers, I've been lucky enough to have some hand in things at a lot of layers. I see several posts where people are feeling discouraged when they hit a wall. They aim high and are frustrated when it lands low. Don't compare yourself against the rushing torrent of build posts (especially the successful build releases). You don't see the hours, weeks, months, of struggle - frustrations - and dead-ends hit to get past the pain and into the happy spot where things work (at least for a little while until they break and we go back to the basic(s)). So share your stupid here. Be vulnerable. Let others know the struggle is real and wide. Whether a total new player on the field or the top-tier champion, we all hit the wall. I put this under "General discussion" as it's less about looking for an answer and more just venting. I've learned that one late in life (ask my partner if she wants me to listen or problem solve when I notice she's unhappy about something... much better convo :)

I'm curious what everyone here likes to do for fun (of course building stuff with Claude is fun too lol), and if you've applied any AI to your hobby. For me it's been super useful for DND planning and I find I get to stay in creative flow more. Curious what other people are doing

TLDR: My co-worker has been manually extracting data from 100s of files one at a time and manually managing files for years. This is a longterm client with set workflow. Usually takes him 2 days and I set up a workflow that will do it in a few minutes. Showed my boss and CEO and got the ok to get a Claude MAX seat. Context: I'm a sound designer and work at a post-production audio studio that also does games. The post engineers work on a lot of projects that require manual setup. They were griping at lunch about how they have to open hundreds of text files to find 1 single line of data that they need during their edit session and then manually qa it against the session when it's setup. It sounded like hell to me so I asked if they wouldn't mind showing me what they have to do and they literally manually open each folder, find the text file, write down on a piece of paper the number and then enter it by hand in the computer later. I spent 10 minutes and described to claude what I needed a python file to do. It gave it back to me and the script was able to extract the data they needed in seconds. But that got me thinking, I know there's a python library that works with Pro Tools (our audio editing software), and the current weekly contest is about making a specialist... COuld I make a specialist in Protools Python scripting that can tailor workflows to any engineer? So I spent about 4 hours speccing an ICM folder that specializes in Python Scripting for Pro Tools. Brought it to work today and --- it didn't work -- immediately at least. IN practice discovered there were errors in the documentation for the python library, so we had to fix the documentation. But after that was able to create a contained python script anybody could run and showed my co-workers and ceo. They were super excited about the possibilities and when I asked if I could go ahead and get a Claude Max subscription they said yes immediately. Might also be showing the wider company the setup and what's possible next Monday. Was totally worth staying up all night yesterday to get this out 🤣

Some of you are building right now. You're building a workflow, or an app, or an automation. If you're not a scaredy-cat, tell us what you're building!!!! I'll go first... MY PASSION PROJECT: I am building a free app for independent house cleaners everywhere, so they can professionalize themselves. MY REAL WORK: Otherwise, I'm building automations in my company that are were previously being done manually by an administrator. We're in a hiring frenzy, so I just built workflow automations that tracked where every candidate was in our pipeline, while simultaneously assessing them on communication and skills and moving them forward if they responded. My main admin was actually so happy I figured this out, because she usually has to go through resumes one by one to filter out all the obvious NO's, which takes many hours. I can't wait to know!

I am doing things I never thought I was capable of doing thanks to Jake ( and everyone else here). I'm a 60 year old grandma designing an app that has the potential to help a lot of people in times of grief. I'm vibe-coding - two words I didn't even understand a few months ago. I saw a pain point, identified what was needed and then started designing it. Me. Nana.