The whole “what is art” question has different answers for different people. Yes, for some, music is communication, but when I listen to metal in the gym it’s an adrenaline boost. When I listen to brain.fm, it’s for focus. When I listen to a rap song with an MC that’s great at storytelling, then it’s communication. Sometimes it’s just a utility though. I’ve played music for about 30 years - live, in bands, in my bedroom - played many instruments, written electronic music, made lots of noises. But I’m not always trying to communicate something. In fact I’m sometimes scared I don’t have anything good to say with my music. So I just play it.
The same happened to music when digital music production at home became more accessible. The hard part is separating the wheat from the ever growing larger share of chaff.
I wonder if you can find a way to turn the device volume up to max to simulate the unexpected music blasting out and surprising the hell out of the user.
Did you vibe code this? I see people ask all the time “so where are all the vibe coded tools and softwares that are being created by this productivity boost???” Maybe this is one of them and they can begin to see the value. If not, it’s even more impressive.
Great job from what I can tell. I’ve wanted something like this since my early twenties when I realized I had no financial literacy and I thought schools should be required to teach it.
Yep. You’ve got to have it update the docs. After a few sessions, if I forget to request this, opus starts rehashing the same tasks and finds that they are complete - and sometimes still won’t update those docs unless I ask.
Another tip is to condense the doc files into the minimal required. Sometimes I’ll end up with 5 to 6 floating around in various states of staleness. Condensing to 2-3 and removing completed tasks seems to help a lot
I’ve always been told to let electronics and musical instruments slowly warm up in their case after bringing them inside. Supposedly reduces the chances of condensation forming.
You can certainly work on small chunks with an LLM agent. I’ve gotten the best results with 1. Small chunk with tests 2. Refactor/simplify 3. Next small chunk. - I do work on backend and front end at the same time usually but I’ll do a backend pass, then when I need a dopamine hit to keep me focused I’ll get some front end done. So it’s backend steps 1 and 2 repeated until I feel flat, front end steps 1 and 2 until I’m Neuro chemically satisfied then back to backend. YMMV