Nuno Barreto

Bringing clarity to complexity | Exploring AI and technology to simplify the way we work

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

Everyone keeps saying development is dead and developers will be replaced by agents. I don't buy it. Writing the code is getting automated, but understanding what we're building isn't, my personal experience on this article. https://t.co/09Sid0FxYZ

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

not free, i pay €180/month for the ultraplan. what i might consider is dropping my MS office subscription, I hardly use it anymore. For the last month or so all my presentations have been made on Claude Slides, and most documents are a mix of claude slides in A4 with diagraming and branding skills I added. I then just iterate on content with Claude and ship the docs. Much faster.

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

@claudeai @noahzweben starting to debate if i need MS Office. I already do all my decks in Claude Slides, Sheets I haven’t tried but dashboards i use a lot.

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

@GoldNecklace90 @tomfgoodwin @bot oh yes, totally agree and, being an introvert, I’m more in my element with smaller groups or 1:1 interactions. Those are important no doubt about it. No ofensen taken btw.

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

@Pollywollydo11 @tomfgoodwin @bot so where live it is supermarket chains not small grocery shops or markets. thus my reluctance to go into large crowded supermarket chains on weekends. just not my cup of tea

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

for me its not about loneliness, i’m blessed to have a family, friends. this particular scenario i experimented with just gives me options. if there’s something i don’t like doing myself, why not delegate it to free up time for something more joyful and rewarding personally ? it’s not about the shoppiny example itself, it could have been something else, it’s the fact that the tool, in this case @bot, was able to handle something i don’t like doing, and did it very well, freeing my time for something better as per my individual preferences which i understand might be different from others

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

@hokiemystic @tomfgoodwin @bot i could see that in a smaller environment, in my area think of Target or Wallmart type supermarket full of people on weekends doing their weekly or monthly grocery shopping.

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

@bardinbrief @tomfgoodwin @bot we all have our own individual preferences 😂. For me groceries or really any type of shopping is a chore. I’m very utilitarian in that regard.

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

@DoerkJay @tomfgoodwin @bot you might have missed the point. I only took photos of the products responded to a few questions for 5 mins the whole process of going to the website, logging in, searching products and adding to the cart, that all done by @bot hands off.

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

so, getting in the weeds here but i only took about 6-7 photos for specic brands i needed, the rest i just took a photo of the pantry and the inside of the fridge. it saw what brands were in there, confirmed needed qtys and i didn’t have to type much.
Remember this started as an experiment, to see how well it was able to handle this. I was quite surprised with the result and may repeat it for the next cycle of purchases

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

@dukelalondeland @tomfgoodwin @bot say what ?

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

unrelated, but I initiated an subscription merge (was on Cursor Pro+) and had X Premium. It’s been a week and a half and I get “Your account merging is taking longer than expected”. In the meantime your customer service bot, Sam, which in some regards is pretty impressive, continues to tell me to wait don’t do anything, wait for a human who will try to fix it. In the meantime, I’m paying Super on X/Grok (apparently those two transitioned and with a new Grok Bot attached), but my Cursor Pro+ and my original Grok Bot are still tied together and I’m paying for both. So I just cancelled Cursor Pro+ l, and going to try to transfer all my Grok Bot memory/skills to the one attached to the Super sub. The merge process wasn’t simple (might be the two diff emails X/Grok used one and Cursor Pro+ I use with a diff email

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

yes I don’t disagree, but having something like @bot or similar gives me options. I can choose to go out or do something by hand, or just delegate it, in this case to a bot. I don’t enjoy shopping in general, the experience itself, specially crowded places, but i do enjoy going to a coffee shop or a restaurant and engage with the barista or the owners or waiters for instance. If I have the option to avoid going out shopping, why not ? I stayed home, enjoyed a movie with my wife and while a bot was shopping for me. The tech just gives you options, that’s it

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

it was actually very quick 5-10mins tops. i add to reject some suggestions and add request other missed items (cereal was actually one of them). The the list was defined it was mostly hands-off. I suspect the next time will be quicker. It already knows products I buy, so in can probably just ask it to repeat the cart

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

the only difference with my experiment today was to try to figure out how successful would the process of buying groceries for the month would be if i just took some photos of what i needed and took photos of the inside if the fridge and pantry. gave them to grok, built my shopping list, confirmed qtys and off it went to purchase. Online shopping manually is still a time suck that I could use some other way. Having this agent doing it flawlessly for me while i was relaxing it’s great

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

@tomfgoodwin @bot I understand it might be for some people, but not for me. I feel drained in spaces with too many people, I prefer to use that time differently. Today was watching a moving, it could have been reading, long walk with the dog, anything but a shopping mall and/or supermarket!

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

@IndependentEco still don’t understand the value, i can direct multiple cc sessions from my mobile already, from anywhere

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

@RepYassAnsari This is ridiculous. Yes some regulation / oversight might be needed, but a ban on AI ? Do you even know the benefits and positive impacts it has ? How many different jobs, new fields and opportunities it can open ?

[Nuno Barreto @nbarreto]

yes, for repeatable tasks. I have several, from brand guidelines so that all docs, presentations, etc show a consistent look and feel, from how to use diagram libraries that draw beautiful diagrams embedded in the docs/slides, from skills that connect to openrouter or others to generate images and videos, skills to generate invoices, po’s, skills on how i like docs structured, some of them are interlinked. Huge timesavers