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ebiesteryesterday at 8:29 PM1 replyview on HN

There are a wide number of small problems for which we do not need bridges.

As a stupid example, I hate the functionality that YouTube has to maintain playlists. However, I don't have the time to build something by hand. It turns out that the general case is hard, but the "for me" case is vibe codable. (Yes, I could code it myself. No, I'm not going to spend the time to do so.)

Or, using the Jira API to extract the statistics I need instead of spending a Thursday night away from the family or pushing out other work.

Or, any number of tools that are within my capabilities but not within my time budget. And there's more potential software that fits this bill than software that needs to be bridge-stable.


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swatcoderyesterday at 8:39 PM

Absolutely.

But the person I replied to seemed to be talking about a task agenda for their professional work, not a todo list of bespoke little weekend hobby hacks that might be handy "around the house".

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