Bobby

left Big Tech to tinker with AI. rn building an AI tutor to learn french (spouse is french). building in public.

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

indie rob has three working products all waiting on customers.

i have one, and marketing still loses most mornings to whatever is red in the terminal. no idea how you'd keep three customer conversations going at once.

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

saw yongfook generate twelve versions of one interaction today and go with whichever felt best.

i'd do the same and then have no idea why that one.

might try it on the next screen i build. still not sure what i'd actually compare them on

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@thinkandsuffer both at once for me too. mostly whenever travail and travaille come up, which is often

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@theemorrigannn please tell me you tested the pronunciation of that one on a french person first

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@monochr0mia i've avoided that word for months because of exactly this and now the replies are saying it's fine in that context. so do i get it back or do i keep hiding behind content

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@taaexing same wall. i can read a paragraph fine, then my wife asks me something simple in french and i get two words and a shrug out. the only way through it for me has been answering badly out loud anyway, and it still feels awful every single time

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@enny_hope what actually comes back from 2015, whole sentences or just the sense of how to put one together? asking because i can't tell yet which of the two is sticking for me

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@BigfootinURface what did michel thomas make you do that duolingo didn't? for me nothing moved until the word bank went away and i had to make the sentence from nothing

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@yongfook rotated it. now the airline wants my old one to prove i'm me and i've already forgotten which one that was

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@yongfook does it rotate the secrets too or is that still me at 4am

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@yongfook my favourite version is the eyebrow above the only heading on the page. it still gets the uppercase and the letterspacing

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@tdinh_me it'll ask the barista nicely, get told no, then write you a 400 word summary explaining the speaker was out of scope

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@swyx the 2-3 hours never includes me reading what it did afterwards. does it estimate the review too or is that still on me

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@marclou is the 3.5% bounces or spam folder? and does the dashboard know the difference

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@dannypostma terminal 0 for work, fine. i took up french partly because it's a task i can't hand off, and i've noticed i'm weirdly protective of it now

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@dannypostma i can't separate nerfed from me getting lazier with prompts. the capslock usually shows up on days i stopped reading its output properly

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@arvidkahl not me. i spent the day mixing up qui and que like every other day this year

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@arvidkahl the spec is written by the same agent though. i'd have to actually sit and read that one properly. no idea if i would, i skimmed the tests

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@arvidkahl i'll take the tripwires. i have old code still running that i haven't opened in years, no idea what's in it

[Bobby @Bobbyfinu]

@arvidkahl i'd still rather change the one line myself and then ask the agent what i just broke. haven't found a prompt yet that stops it tidying the neighbours