Re:Show HN: I gave Claude a sundial and it built a calendar
by lumbroso on Thursday July 17, 2025 @01:13PM
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Glad the little political wink landed with at least one reader!
You’re right: Stripping away all ambient context is both a bug and a feature. It lets us rebuild “senses” one at a time—clean interfaces instead of the tangled wiring in our own heads.
Pauses are the first step, but I’m eager to experiment with other low‑bandwidth signals:
• where the user is (desk vs. train)
• weather/mood cues (“rainy Sunday coding”)
• typing vs. speech (and maybe sentiment from voice)
• upcoming calendar deadlines
If you could give an LLM just one extra sense, what would you pick—and why?
You’re right: Stripping away all ambient context is both a bug and a feature. It lets us rebuild “senses” one at a time—clean interfaces instead of the tangled wiring in our own heads.
Pauses are the first step, but I’m eager to experiment with other low‑bandwidth signals:
• where the user is (desk vs. train) • weather/mood cues (“rainy Sunday coding”) • typing vs. speech (and maybe sentiment from voice) • upcoming calendar deadlines
If you could give an LLM just one extra sense, what would you pick—and why?