garmin wants me to pay for some gen-ai workout messages on connect plus. Its the most absurd AI slop of all. Same with strava. I workout for mental relaxation and i just hate this AI stuff being crammed in there.
Strava employees claim that casual users like the AI activity summaries. Supposedly users who don't know anything about exercise physiology didn't know how to interpret the various metrics and charts. I don't know if I believe that but it's at least plausible.
Personally I wish I could turn off the AI features, it's a waste of space.
Anytime someone from a company says that users like the super trendy thing they just made I take it with a sizeable grain of salt. Sometimes it's true, and maybe it is true for Strava, but I've seen enough cases where it isn't to discount such claims down to ~0.
Strava's integration is just so lackluster. It literally turns four numbers from right above the slop message into free text. Thanks Strava, I'm a pro user for a decade, finally I can read "This was a hard workout" after my run. Such useful, much AI.
I use AI chatbots for 2+ hours a day but the Garmin thing was too much for me. The day they released their AI Garmin+ subscription, I took off my Forerunner and put it in a drawer. The whole point of Garmin is that it feels emotionally clean to use. Garmin adding a scammy subscription makes the ecosystem feel icky, and I'm not going to wear a piece of clothing that makes me feel icky. I don't think I'll buy a Garmin watch again.
(Since taking off the watch, I miss some of the data but my overall health and sleep haven't changed.)
For us these are just metrics on customer facing dashboards inside our app. They are basically realtime and show p95, p99, avg. etc over time ranges. Our app can show this for 1000s of entities in one dashboard and that can eat up resources pretty quickly
> With Claude, that time cost has plummeted to nearly zero.
not sure if anyone knows. how good would a bigquery-sql to scala parser generated code would be? can i use it without having to dig into generated code?
Now I am at a point with it where I’m watching just about every line of code it generates, at least to the extent that I’m reading it to ensure that it’s following the required patterns and not doing something crazy.
I made the mistake of letting it go off on its own in the first few iterations before I realised just how crazy it could get if left unattended.
Once I stopped doing that and held the yoke more frequently, I got much better results.
It was generating far _less_ code but the code it generated was far _more_ useful.
I think I threw away about 40% of the code it generated over the course of the exercise. Which is where the realisation came from that it is sometimes easier to just throw stuff away and start again with a better question than it is to try and iterate garbage into something that works.
I think you might be misunderstanding what I’m saying, or I’m not being clear enough (apologies). The simple fact is that yes, I’m watching it, but it’s way faster at typing than me. So it’s often easier for me to tell it to just throw away a whole chunk of code and rewrite it than it would be for me to rewrite it on my own.
> "Because it only took me a few month to be able to play pretty advanced piano sheets compared to some of my relatives who are struggling with the basics starting it in their adulthood."
I don't get it. you'll be a beginner in something that you weren't pushed to in your childhood. so what?
are you planning to only do things you were pushed to as a child? I learnt skiing in mid 30s , never even saw snow as a child. Its my fav thing to do all winter and spent like 40 days a season on snow. Not sure if i would've enjoyed it the same if i was "pushed" skiing as a child and hated it.
Atleast clippy was kind of cute.
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