Ses Goe

Hi, I'm Ses. I write about software and my life on my blog.

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

This is the single greatest ad they could possibly write.

I remember seeing the price tag and thinking, "There's no way it's worth that much more"

But Mehul, you sold me so hard I'm having a hard time controlling my arm and stopping myself from giving you my money.

Thank you.

[Mehul @mehul]

Cassidy, that's a great question... not a hater at all.

The best way to say it is that Matic is Robotics 2.0 a robot with actual intelligence vs. disc robots which are really automation w/o intelligence.

The first Roombas (without cameras) were like wearing a blindfold, folding hands, and then bouncing from wall to wall to cover a room. Roombas with cameras or Disc bots with LIDAR (single-pixel laser sensors) are still wearing a blindfold but now they have a hand extended as a single laser to see if something in their path. However, if the obstacle is higher or lower than the laser, they still bump into it. They also don't really know if the obstacle is a wall or counter or table a door, etc. They neither truly detects or recognizes obstacles. Their flat, ant-like vantage point prevents any real understanding, that's why they can't see wires and get stuck no matter how many sensors they keep adding to the device.

Matic is a completely redesigned, reengineered, and reinvented robot with Vision-Only AI robot that sees like human, so it can clean like us. The vantage point of the robot is the same as crawling human child, so it see our floors top the down the way we do. This is why it:

**** deftly navigates around any surface/obstacles using visual intelligence
****quieter than dishwashers at 55dBA
****recognizes floor types auto-toggles between vacuuming and mopping - knowns it can't mop a rug
****outperforms any vacuuming and mopping robot (in our own homes and tests -- I have 3 kids and a golden retriever)
****Convenience of HEPA bags that keep the air clean and eliminate the hassle of changing filters
Air coming out of vacuums is cleaner than air going in which is not the case with disc bots
****private — keeps your data within 4 walls of your home with all edge device processing (no cloud at all)

In addition, We wanted to solve problems that disc robots struggle with:

**** Disc robots struggle with thresholds or shag rugs or thick pile rugs -- for that big wheels of matic help.
**** Actuated cleaning head adjusts to different thickness of the rugs and dynamically changes suction/brush roll speed to clean rugs that even manual vacuums cannot clean.
**** Designed to deal with pet hair in a way tha it doesn't get clogged and don't have to flip the robot and cut hair - so easily accessible brush roll.
**** Cleaning head is littler over 2" tall so it can easily fit under space below kitchen cabines and visible dirt under the couches and furniture. Those don't get dirty as frequently as visible area.
**** And one the things we cared about and have heard from any customers is that it doesn't scare pets and kids.
**** as mentioned above, higher vantage point of cameras (instead ant-like vantage point of disc robots) allows us to see floors the same way we do at 45 degree angle -- this means it can truly see what obstacles are and avoid it. No more wire chewing.
**** In addition, just like the bottom of the cars get dirtier faster, flat robot sensors get dirtier much faster too, and then they make all kinds of mistakes. Higher camera position allows robot to see like humans at 45 degree angle to the floor and doesn’t get dirty. So, the trade-off is also intelligence.

We talked to many users and felt that cleaning obviously accessible area thoroughly, effectively, w/o needing to babysit around obstacles was a far bigger use case for families with kids and pets than cleaning underneath the furniture.

As a pet owner and father of 3 kids, our primary need wasn't under the furniture. That can be cleaned once a month as a deep clean. We wanted something that would clean day to day messes, hair of my golden retriever, cookie crumbs, kitchen, etc., constantly w/o needing supervision. We wanted something that would clean our thick shag rugs and go over them (which disc robots cannot). So we prioritized the needed for families like us.

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

@garybernhardt @nikitabier same question 🙃

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

@garybernhardt I like to think of this like I think of eras of real world architecture.

Work from the 1500s is beautiful, but we dont build homes like that today.

Code looks different now, but can still be beautiful. Right now I'm seeing things like repo documentation that makes me go, "Wow."

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

@JackEllis @ryanflorence If you're typing 106 WPM with one finger on each hand, like I'm imagining for maximum hilarity, we need a video immediately

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

What we are losing with AI is syntax -- and good riddance. The less our brains are occupied by semicolons and braces the better. There are much more important things for us to consider and manage.

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

Contacted a lawyer about creating a will and trust. Costs will be in the ballpark of 4-5 figures. Seems high.

Has anyone out there used an LLM to this effect?

@patio11 this seems like a very simple ROI here, but I'm concerned about the unknown unknowns here.

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

@jessfraz I love that the only prompt here is "make this part"

I love the future

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

@Caseysellshomes @adamwathan Blowing air vs cold water pad

Covers and sheets can trap air in weird ways, meaning you suddenly freeze just your left foot off

Cooled pad means the whole pad stays cool, no weird thermal pockets

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

@ellie_huxtable Who would say no to this question?

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

@visakanv Yea...they do that sometimes

Kids are great

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

@jessfraz Thank you for sharing! I had never heard of this before.

It's worth reading JUST to read it. That says a lot about how damn good it is.

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

@ellie_huxtable Where was that incredible "above the clouds" photo taken?

If we ever get a chance to visit SF, I'd love to take my wife there someday—sunsets are her favorite thing.

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

@jessfraz Hey, thanks for responding!

I have tried the agentic style, but it goes off on wild-ass tangents too much, so I often use Cursor's "Ask" mode instead.

Very similar to how you do it, but I don't have a long-lived context.

Curious to try your way with o3 though!

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

@anthonynsimon that lake got built-in wi-fi? 👀

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

@devopstoolbox @ellie_huxtable I've had the most luck with using tools that seem to have more training data

Pulumi = bad, but it is still helpful to use types as an exploratory tool sometimes

Terraform, CloudFormation for aws = decent

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

@mattpocockuk It's kind of wild that there's a preference here at all. Imports are handled broadly by my IDE. I can't remember the last time I had to write a manual import.

And if my IDE handles it, more information is better. `.ts` is the clear, sensible choice here.

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

(I accept that it might just be my taste, but seriously the logo in the top left is illegible)

Otherwise, awesome tool. You should be proud of what you've built 🤟

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

@braelyn_ai messed around with AgentStack a bit today to build a better mental model of the "Agent" concept

I wanted to share my description of it and see if you think I'm missing anything.

[Ses Goe @SesGoe]

AgentStack is a super awesome tool and hooking into observability by default is definitely the way to go. Loved the experience of it.

For some use cases this seems like a pretty rapid way to build.

My only real feedback is the ascii logo in docs is really hard to read 😅