I joke that I'm on the "Claude Code workout plan" now.
Standing desk, while it's working I do a couple squats or pushups or just wander around the house to stretch my legs. Much more enjoyable than sitting at my desk, hands on keyboard, all day long. And taking my eyes off the screen also makes it easier to think about the next thing.
Moving around does help, but even so, the mental fatigue is real!
I've seriously wondered about merging a home office and home gym into one, and doing sets in between claude working. My usual workout has about 22-30 sets of exercises total and I probably wait on Claude that often in a day. It would be wonderful to be able to spread my exercise throughout the entire day. I'd also include an adjustable height desk so that I could be standing up for much of the workout/workday. I could even have a whiteboard in there.
I have a small gym next to my home office and I just cannot do it. When I train I need to be 100% focused on the exercises otherwise in the best case I'll stagnate, and in the worst I'll injure myself. So instead I do some mindless chores if time allows.
Ironically, this brings us one step closer to believing the simulation hypothesis might be true... In which case, maybe there is no real world anyway ;)
>OpenAI has 800,000,000 weekly users but only 20,000,000 are paying while 780,000,000 are free riding.
By itself, this doesn't tell us much.
The more interesting metric would be token use comparison across free users, paid users, API use, and Azure/Bedrock.
I'm not sure if these numbers are available anywhere. It's very possible B2B use could be a much bigger market than direct B2C (and the free users are currently providing value in terms of training data).
Normally that would be a fair point (and maybe it was valid in 2022).
But given the US approach to foreign policy in 2025, one could argue that the list of countries that “have a contentious relationship with the US” (or, maybe more accurately, the other way around) is a lot longer and less clear-cut today than it was a few years ago.
Except you do still have to think about time, no matter what… Libraries will help with the really messy details, but even the high level requirements have a lot of pitfalls.
“Simple” example that anyone who’s ever worked on a scheduling application will probably be familiar with:
“Get a list with all of today’s events.”
Well, whose “today” (timezone) are we talking about? Server, client, setting in the user account? Or none of the above, and actually timezone at the physical location of the event, if there is one?
And what does “today” mean, anyway? Truncate the date? 00:00-23:59? Business hours?
And what does “today’s event” even mean? Events can cross midnight… Does an event need to start today? End today? Both? Can events span multiple days?
I understand the complexity of time, but this scenario doesn't seem all that difficult. Any user expects (I won't get into what they want) to be shown _their_ day, and they expect it to be local calendar time. You _might_ want to show wee hours events, from midnight to just short of 5am. Apps like Teams do a good job of spacially illustrating time as it matters to you _and_ as it matters to others.
I don't know anything about Cord beyond this article, but my team has worked on many projects over the years where we had to add chat / commenting / notifications functionality.
I can see this being a tough market.
One - it's a crowded field, with many solutions in each of those three categories. I don't think we've actually come across Cord while evaluating solutions, which just shows how noisy it is.
Two - I struggle seeing "chat / commenting / notifications" as a unified category. Every project we've worked on had unique requirements for each of these (whether justified or not...) so every implementation ended up being different.
It's definitely a pain to roll out these features from scratch, and we always preferred using something off-the-shelf where possible.
But by the time you finish evaluating options, pick one, implement and customize it, deal with its limitations and bugs - plus projecting several years of usage costs, and uncertainty dealing with an outside vendor - I can easily see how the balance might tip to doing it in-house in many cases.
Not trying to armchair quarterback - I know how hard startups are, and respect to the Cord team for being in the trenches! Just sharing my experience.
>What's the alternative? A customer service job where you can be rude? There are cultural norms which we all have to obey in a workplace.
Yes, it is a cultural norm. It varies from culture to culture.
There are lots of countries / cultures where "neutral" customer service - say, at a restaurant - is perfectly fine. Others have a baseline expectation for "friendly" service. To the latter, the former might come across as rude...
When visiting the US, I time and time again started telling service staff about how my day was, because they seemed so sincerely happy to meet me and interested in how I was doing.
That’s the number of cases being directly linked to a specific cause, it doesn’t mean that the actual number was 400/year. It’s like someone trying to estimate how much violence exists from watching the news. You’re likely to see major incidents, but you can only estimate the actual total.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was well over 10k/year, but the CDC is conservative with their numbers for good reasons.
Also worth noting that there can be incidents where a massive number of people are infected in a short span.
> with the largest sickening over 2,000 water frolickers in one go.
Lots of people experience isolated events of food-borne illnesses for a variety of reasons. But when a restaurant gets 2000 people sick in a short time frame, we shut it down...and correctly so!
The average annual rate is not terribly informative for making effective public health decisions because it smooths out most of the interesting bits.
For public health decisions I agree, but I'm not making those decisions.
For private health decisions (should my family go to a splash pad or not) the average rate, or chance of infection from one visit relative to other activities, would be more relevant.
Standing desk, while it's working I do a couple squats or pushups or just wander around the house to stretch my legs. Much more enjoyable than sitting at my desk, hands on keyboard, all day long. And taking my eyes off the screen also makes it easier to think about the next thing.
Moving around does help, but even so, the mental fatigue is real!
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