You guys keep liking and commenting on my confession posts, so here's another one. I wish at least one of these confessions wasn't real. They're all real (sad face). For the AI nerds in here (so, all of us): I think I'm addicted. It's worse than being hooked on a video game. A game at least has the decency to feel like a waste of time. This feels productive. Sometimes it actually is. At 1am, running six seven sessions at once? Not so much. ------------------------------------ What my nights have turned into ------------------------------------ Multiple Claude sessions going at once. When it got late and I knew I should be in bed, I'd flip every one of them with the /remote-control command so I could keep feeding the machine from my phone. Lying there in the dark. Waiting for the little dot to show up that means it's done thinking. Fire off the next instruction. Wait for the dot again. It's a slot machine. Drop the coins, pull the lever, watch for the dot. Like a freaking addict. One evening this week (I think it was Tuesday) I had three sessions all editing the same end-of-day file, and they kept overwriting each other's work. I'm sitting there getting genuinely angry. Then I caught myself cursing out a piece of software. Out loud. "You BLEEP, you broke it again." And I stopped. It's a machine, Ruben. Why are you getting triggered by a machine? And who's really doing the breaking? ------------------------------------ So I asked the machine why I can't quit the machine ------------------------------------ I did what any self-respecting addict does. I used the thing I'm addicted to, to figure out why I'm addicted to it. I'd read The Goal a while back (the Theory of Constraints novel everybody in operations swears by). I reopened it, had Claude walk me through the main concepts and tie them back to my business. And it clicked: I'm the bottleneck. My time, my attention. Not my team. Not my tools. Me. Then came the part that actually stung. The optimizing itself was the bottleneck. I'd been spending multiple two-hour sessions buffing an end-of-day routine whose entire job is to take fifteen minutes. The thing I kept "improving" stopped being my constraint years ago. I just couldn't put it down.

is any one using Hermes as there harness? personally i have been happy that i did all the starter classes here with a VS Code so i at least know what i am doing when getting the beast of something like hermes and LM Studio working.

We talk about folders all day, but the folders are FOR something. I want to know what... 🎖️Bonus points: comment with the single most painful manual process in your industry. The best comp entries come from exactly those answers.

Personally. No I don't think they did, I think the researchers are discovering what I did already ! And I'm happy they are. I would love if you all could comment, share or tag Google in this though as I would love to work with them ! Video below. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-the-open-knowledge-format-can-improve-data-sharing

It’s been a big week for me. I had to try and land some crucial things at work - the culmination of my 5 months in a new role. This means I’ve had some longer than normal days and I’ve been pushing myself beyond what I normally would. Last night, that meant a pretty late dinner. Care from my husband looked like seeing how my day was going and taking a few minutes to make some veggies I preferred over what was sitting around and making sure I got good food. Today, that meant my Chief of Staff did something unexpected. I have some inbuilt principles that run - one of the things my system gives me is a way to surface potential blind spots. If there are signs that I’m missing wellbeing signals from my team - that they are under pressure and I need to run some interference and reprioritise - one of its jobs is to alert me, firmly, to what I’m not seeing. Baked in as something it knows is true - we never deliver if the cost is the wellbeing of the team. That’s not a reasonable price. I set some temporary limits for myself this week - let’s call it a health and safety protocol - so that I could deliver what mattered, but not get caught up overdoing it for the small stuff. I set some recharge lines, to get back to my normal, and I told my system where those were. None of them relate to what I’m about to tell you. This afternoon I had 20 minutes left at the end of the day. I asked my system for quick wins - what’s the little admin stuff I could do that wouldn’t be taxing to close out. It went away, it considered, it said we could do one small task and that was it, everything else was too demanding. I did the thing and then I made some suggestions. It politely but firmly objected to them. I explained I didn’t need to leave for a personal appointment for another 15 minutes It reminded me of the book I was in the middle of reading and suggested I get to my appointment early and read it in the car or waiting room. I’m not kidding. And you know what? I did. It was the right call. My system did the exact same thing I would do to my team. And, when I was looking for a thing that was small enough, it reminded me that the big stuff was handled and what I was looking for wasn’t worth doing as much as reading my book. It understood my principles, it understood the boundaries I had set and what they meant and it extrapolated what was the right thing to do. And it told me.