I’m building a netsuite competitor (having spent a lot of my career on accounting and erp implementations.)
The trick (one trick) is to allow LLMs to provide an audit/accounting/compliance playbook, along with customizations, based on the user describing their business model.
If an LLM can read the source
of the library you’re trying to use - or examples of others using the library in GitHub, or official documentation - then there is less of a need for a fellow SOer to put the pieces together to debug issues and answer questions.
How do you use these in practice? Both Python and Go don’t make it easy to link a different variation of SQLite with one of these plugins compiled in. How do you make it work?
I don't think SqliteMultipleCiphers can be built into a runtime loadable extension (and the Turso thing is just a copy of it).
I'm confident that a scheme based on tweakable block cyphers (like Adiantum or AES XTS) could be made into decent runtime loadable extension.
I implemented such schemes for my Go driver, but Go code is not really ideal to make a runtime loadable extension of (it'd have to be ported to C/Rust/zig).
Nice! Some feedback from my wife, who is into all manner of word games: she found it a little bit brute-forcey: needing to try all different combinations in order to get the right configuration of the word. In contrast to a crossword where there is already a layout, which gives her a hint for how to proceed with the rest.
(She finished today's puzzle, and I gave up.) From a UI perspective it is very slick - very smooth, and I like how it kind of "gets" what you were trying to do when providing corrections/hints.
I'm trying to build a next gen quickbooks competitor.
Something that doesn't nickle and dime you, very cheap (perhaps even open source), has all of the extensibility of a modern ERP, a great UI, and handles complex use cases (revenue rec, expense management, inventory cogs, etc).
I feel like this is solving a real problem, but have no idea how to break into the industry. Just trying to solve my own problems for business accounting but would be nice to know other folks would be interested.
A simple “ChatGPT for email.” I just want to be able to ask things like “What time is my flight next week” or “Can you pull up the email where I sent John the final documentation for the api?”
I don’t want to auto compose messages or anything. I just want the computer to filter out things I don’t care about and tell me the answer to things without hunting around my inbox.
I use Google Wallet for some things because I am an Android user, and sometimes the most convenient way to pay for shit online is using the mobile wallet. I just happen to hate Apple more than I hate Google.
That said, both Apple and Google are shit companies that should jot be trusted with this. I with there was a third option
Also, please not FB. I have to be careful with what I wish sometimes.
Top tip from using only high-latency satellite internet for long periods: add a significant delay to every request to problematic sites. As soon as the dopamine loop is broken, you'll find the wait so frustrating that you won't bother.
I imagine there are tools that will artificially slow down requests.
The lazy way would be to VPN somewhere as far away as possible and throttle your bandwidth. That would get you 250ms of round trip latency for free. In Antarctica we had up to 3000ms on a bad day. You learn to do stuff offline, build from source instead of download compiled binaries and use Kiwix. Nowadays it's less of an issue because you can ask LLMs questions and have them search for you and all you need to transfer is text. Much much easier than loading heavy websites.
I install the "Undistracted" extension in all of my Brave instances. In addition to having the ability to block arbitrary URLs it has many site-specific options like blocking YouTube recommendations or the LinkedIn timeline, all of which I ruthlessly enable. You can also set it to only work on certain days and times of the week. It's immensely useful.
I also pay for Kagi which has the ability to block certain domains from results. I'd imagine that blocking Instagram, Reddit, Youtube, etc. would also prevent rabbit-holing.
I started reading again. Which has been quite enjoyable after the initial bump of "reading is boring compared to <favourite new video content>". Also putting more time into things I know I find more rewarding. And sometimes, just doing nothing much is nice as a brain break.
The trick (one trick) is to allow LLMs to provide an audit/accounting/compliance playbook, along with customizations, based on the user describing their business model.
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