I found this to be a difficult read, and quite repetitive in sentence structure. (Ctrl+F says 25 instances of ":" on this page!)
It sounds like the product is intended to help you avoid performance-related regressions, and argues that the risk of performance regressions will increase with AI writing more code. That seems plausible, but it's unclear how or why this product is superior to existing performance testing as part of your CI/CD pipeline.
Hi. Performance testing in your CI/CD pipeline will catch performance regressions of what your team has covered with benchmarks or load tests. Anything else will fall through the cracks.
Even the most capable performance conscious teams in the world still have limited attention. Perfloop has been contributing significant performance improvements to the open source world too, across repos like ClickHouse, Prometheus, parquet-go, roaring bitmaps and more.
Yes, but the AI will handle asking you everything. Here's how easy it is to make a game that functions like his but without the polish - put Claude in plan mode 1 prompt, then answer any questions it has:
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Make me a threejs game in html. The "game" is where you can tap a button to add a log to a cutting block. You have an axelike (e.g., a stem cube for handle and slim cube for axe blade) object that you can axe into the wood, and wherever the head intersects the underlying "log" cylinder it splits the log.
So blade is a hittest object, where that object hits the spawned log, the log splits, use a decent physics lib (ammoJS is fine) so it feels good. Do you have any questions?
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After answering about 5 basic questions, the above made a cute little physics based log cutting game very similar to this guy's demo - now it'd probably take about 5-8 more hours to slowly prompt out a more polished version. This stuff is really easy - you don't have to have any experience in game dev to prompt it up.
Remaking this exact game on your engine of choice would actually be a great starter project. It's extremely small and self contained, very little actual interaction, simple models and whatever textures you can make or steal.
At $4 per month, I don’t consider it expensive at all to have this whole category of problem solved for me. Mobile app, desktop, laptop synced flawlessly and quickly.
A lot of people view that as pretty costly for what is incredibly small amounts of data in the scope of things. for half that cost you can get 100gb of storage through google and have it synchronize all my docs AND my pictures and videos and anything else I want, so by comparison $4 can seem like a lot for note synchronization.
The main value proposition of Obsidian Sync isn't storage. Obsidian is primarily used with text files which are tiny. My 20 year old collection of notes is only about 1GB for 19,000 files and a few images/pdfs.
I'm biased but I'd say the benefits over Google Drive are: 1. end-to-end encryption, 2. seamless integration with the app (e.g. version history), 3. granular control over what settings and files are synced for each device, 4. shared vaults.
In addition Obsidian Sync helps keep Obsidian 100% user-supported. Obsidian is not subsidized by advertising or any investors. And you can actually contact the team if you need help. See also: https://stephango.com/vcware
Yes even for me in Spain 4$ is not bad. But for me I just want to sync with my local servers. I don't want any stuff in someone else's computer even if it is end to end. So I use the livesync plugin.
I'd pay for the option to host my own server with the official sync but they don't offer that for now.
I don't see it. In my experience with AI/Claude so far, building something with AI then changing direction half way through is a great way to generate garbage structure and garbage code. It takes time to dig yourself out of that hole, possibly more than if you had just slowly built by hand from the beginning all. Maybe I'm holding it wrong.
As the father of a 2- and 4-year-old, this project is repulsive.
> Like many parents, I found that standard bedtime stories didn't always capture their unique imagination. So, I built Lyra Kids (https://lyra.kids) to turn our nightly ritual into something more magical.
We have the standard template product pitch here (“Unlike our competitors, our product does XYZ”) but turned against _the entirety of children’s literature_.
You really think that many parents find “standard bedtime stories” insufficient?
Look, we have a couple of those books that use your kid’s name and a custom illustration that resembles them. They’re about as sophisticated as a Hallmark card and equally unrewarding. The kids get a kick out of it, but it’s a rare amusement and not actual interest. You don’t talk about the plot or the characters of a Mad Lib.
I’ll set aside my moral outrage and assume that you wanted to build this project no matter what and backed into the product positioning later, because the alternative is too depressing to consider.
> We have the standard template product pitch here (“Unlike our competitors, our product does XYZ”) but turned against _the entirety of children’s literature_.
Thank you! As a 44 year old non-parent this claim was really bothering me, but ya, it's just product-speak! I really hope so, at least. I'm still imagining that there are actually parents out there who think there aren't good enough children's books out there. Like, there is so much good stuff. SOOOOOOO much. When I was being read children's books many of them weren't even contemporary for the time. My grandmother read me Aladdin in the 80s! I was obsessed with the genie of the ring and wrote a story about it. Then the Disney movie came out a few years later and it was all about the genie of the lamp. D'oh. But I digress.
made me cry. i bought the hard cover and im saving it for when my niece is a little older to understand the depth, just a little more. it's been a few years. she still needs to learn how to read!
It sounds like the product is intended to help you avoid performance-related regressions, and argues that the risk of performance regressions will increase with AI writing more code. That seems plausible, but it's unclear how or why this product is superior to existing performance testing as part of your CI/CD pipeline.