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I work as a part-time programmer at Gumroad. At the beginning of September, I came back from a three-week long vacation, and a lot has changed at work. Both in terms of how much stuff was shipped and how we do things internally. Everybody switched to using Cursor for development, and productivity skyrocketed. I gave it a try, and the first thing I asked the chat was to give me a summary of the highlights that shipped while I was gone, and it came up with a pretty decent output (https://x.com/RaulOnRails/status/1830580206178070932). This was basically the spark that…

Hey, HN! This post is not about useless meeting tips, nor about some new tool that drains remaining calendar hours. Like most of us, I’m very frustrated by the amount of time wasted by meetings. Why most of us here hate meetings is well described in PG’s essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html There is also a great solution that worked for YC: office hours. Ok, but how can this help a regular maker in a regular company? Most makers struggle with the meetings scheduled by their colleagues, so let’s focus just on the company internal meetings. What if every maker…

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