You are right, so I am probably completely on the wrong here. :D
A question to advance the discussion. What I am wondering is, if you can remember to go back to your time tracking system, why can you not remember to go back to your main goals?
I don't understand the problem here. If you cannot focus, just focus more?
More structure/checklist to force you to focus will have other side-effects like you found out. When you get rid of the structure, you still need to have a rough map in your mind of where you want to go.
To me, this is similar to being honest. You don't want to depend on a system or checklist for being honest. It is something you always need, as a policy. Focus is like that. If you want to focus seriously on something, just make it a policy, and don't use all these tricks as crutches.
- Better formatting for text: (1) bullet points (2) markdown-like links (3) Slightly different background for code.
- More "sub-reddits". We already have Ask/Show HN. We probably can add a couple more to keep everything organized.
- Option to auto-collapse comments threads deeper than X levels by default. When they are all open by default like today, only the top comment and its children get more of the eyeballs.
2024: I used to split time between IntelliJ IDEA (10% - for Java) and VSCode (90% - for everything else).
2025: Stopped writing so much Java, so used VSCode exclusively for Python, TS etc, with Claude Code or Cline.
2026: Time is split between Codex App (40%), Claude App (30%) and VSCode with Claude Code (30%).
Some other thoughts:
* Overall I feel like opening an IDE in the traditional sense is coming to an end.
* Tech-stack wise I am much more open to trying out new things than before since LLMs will help with the setup and debugging.
* For small teams like ours, code reviews are the bottleneck, and we constantly have to decide what code we review vs what we don't.
* Building seems easy these days, but (1) so much competition no in every field, (2) much more product polish is expected than before, and (3) most products compete with Claude if they realize this or not.
Three of us friends are working on "Data Engineer in a box" or "Cursor for Data": https://getnile.ai
Our thesis is that a lot of Data Engineering practiced today is non-differentiated across companies and they'd rather spend that time on differentiated tasks. What if we can abstract away a lot of the tedious parts of DE work and let companies focus on just the data they want to store, and the questions they have on their data?
So today, we have an MVP that manages the compute, storage, lineage, versioning and pipeline building for datasets. Would LOVE to get feedback on this or your early thoughts!
I don't have a midi piano. Wondering if it is easy for you to support my inputs using microphone. I think there will be several noobs like me with the same problem.
I am wondering how not having H1B could have helped the Disney employees though. If Disney wants to cut costs and hire cheaper labor (presumably why they hired H1Bs? I don't know), they could as well move the jobs offshore. Now the US is losing out on much more than just the jobs. What am I missing here?