Scott Ames-Messinger

Founder at Common Curriculum (@makecurriculum). Empowering educators to design instruction together.

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

Why does this @Apple keynote video look like someone was hand holding the camera? The speaker is standing still but the camera keeps bouncing around. It's really distracting.

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

@tylerangert Sounds related to

https://t.co/xL0ZdfwYh8 and https://t.co/MtiRo9xquA

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

I love @zeddotdev, but I find the new multi-agent/branch/worktree such a complete UX trainwreck. It has no clear hierarchy and every time I change a chat/branch/worktree, I can't predict what in editor will change or not change.

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

@newberry94005 @monarch_money Oh, it’s monarch for sure. the original descriptor is useful. Monarch the converts that into the merchant name and then acts like that canonical when setting up rules even though it routinely guesses the merchant name wrong or just changes from one day to the next

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

I like @monarch_money but their categorization is so staggeringly bad. Our auto car repair shop is called "Japanese car care" and they categorize it as...

"Restaurant"

It's stuff like this *all the time*.

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

@newberry94005 @monarch_money It’s been broke for half a decade or more. They are either unaware or uninterested to fixing it. Either way, it’s maddening.

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

@newberry94005 @monarch_money The rules modal is such shit. They normally mess up the merchant name so if i create a rule and want it to turn on the original description, I’ll toggle that field to discover they haven’t pre filled it and I have to close the modal to find it. It’s so thoroughly broken

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

@monarch_money This happens so much, it’s pointless. e.g. Monarch decides to change the categorization of my life insurance transaction even though the amount or descriptor never changes. The categorization breaks in such new and surprising ways, support tickets would be like whack a mole .

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@hugobarauna Very cool! I would love if Tidewave was an app. The ergonomics and workflow of an app that runs and then require a separate browser feel off to me — I want to command tab to it like other apps.

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

Intercom: We will help you delight your users with your delighted

Also @intercom We also hate our own users and make it impossible for them to to log into our own app.

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

Would not recommend @churnkey to anyone. I liked their product quite a bit, but their third party script broke our website and they've expressed no urgency about making sure this never happens again.

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

The @NotionHQ Agents just get worse. It asks for permission. Great -- I return to the chat. The dialog to approve is not in the chat. I click the desktop notice -- it takes me to my homepage.

So thoroughly broken, I don't understand what type of feedback they want to get.

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

And the very useful history of AI chats (which is a main feature of ChatGPT and Claude) is just...missing.

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

The new @NotionHQ agents are *so unbelievably terrible*, I don't understand how they were even beta quality.

Me: Agent, go work on this document.
Agent: I don't have access.
Me: But I gave you access to the workspace:
Agent: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And more permutations of access issues

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

And we're not even at the bizarre non-barrier between editing the settings and using the agent. They tried to blur this line so it makes me constantly second guess if I'm changing the agent's definition or just using it.

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

@MDOTMTAHolly @jedweeks Fantastic! Thank you!

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

@jedweeks When I took the subway today, I noticed they have new QR code scanners for tickets. If they wer going to install something new, why that? Why doesn't the MTA have tap-to-pay like DC, NYC, etc?

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

I didn't know terminal apps could be great until I used @opencode It's incredible. Claude code feels like a glitchy MVP by comparison.

But, in all fairness to @claudeai, opencode also eats memory like a hungry beast:

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@joeychilson Also, it’s so weird the excitement CF has for this when you can’t use preview environments and their image service together. This is stuff that just works on vercel.

[Scott Ames-Messinger @scottmessinger]

I've generally been liking @CloudflareDev but given this 10 month old issue where preview envs break all a sites images (b/c they don't support the CF image service), it doesn't appears they're trying to seriously compete with Vercel. (https://t.co/xURNvc3tgX) /cc @eastdakota