>My wife and I had a really complicated spreadsheet for tracking how much we owed our babysitter – it was just complex enough to not really fit into a spreadsheet easily. I vibecoded a command line tool that's made it a lot easier.
Ok, please help me understand. Or is this more of a nanny?
Not technically a nanny, but not dissimilar. In this case, they do several types of work (house cleaning, watching 1-3 kids, daytime and overnights, taking kids out.) They are very competent – by far the best we've found in 3 years – and charge different rates for the different types of work. We also need to track mileage etc. for reimbursement.
They had a spreadsheet for tracking but I found it moderately annoying – it was taking 5-10 minutes a week, so normally I wouldn't have bothered to write a different tool, but with vibe coding it was fairly trivial.
For pure text responses, agree 100%. Gemini falls way short on tool/function calling, and it's not very token-efficient for those of us using the API. But if they can fix those two things or even just get them in the same ballpark like they did with flash and flash-lite, it would easily become my primary model.
Hah, I quit Prime and they just gave it back to me. No charge. I can't cancel it. I can't figure it out, but perhaps they realized that their margin on me before I canceled was well over the cost of Prime? I'm not sure, but I still only use it a fraction of what I used to...
Put it on the charger while you’re showering and it’ll be charged enough to run until your next shower. And doing this consistently helps in forming a routine.
If your computer can run the local STT model, then no data leaves your machine — which applies to most modern computers. However, if you're using a particularly old laptop, it will default to cloud-based STT.
