Weekly notes related to explorations, workout and family
Explorations
I have been playing around with AI for coding for some time now but never tried it for a ‘from-scratch’ use case. Last week started playing around with a use case and I can see many gaps currently when it comes to Claude, OpenAI and Cursor. I also tried a few workflows around using Claude in a companion workflow vs. prompting using the Claude model as part of the Cursor chat window.
There is a distinct advantage of leveraging Cursor and prompting in the chat window since there a few nifty tricks that Cursor environments pulls up:
- Reference one more many code files (and also specific lines of code)
- Quick auto-completes
- Applying code changes (this itself is a big win)
Look forward to keep digging more and document some of these learnigns.
Family
We tried You Mee this weekend. Didn’t have much expectations, except for wanting to try some asian food. I was pleasantly surprised with the spot-on India Chinese flavors of the noodles and gravies. Reminded me of my college days in Mumbai and all the Chinese food stall craze.
Workout
Last week I have been having frequent pulsating pain around my right upper back. Definitely a mix of imbalance, seating posture and exercise. Pain would slowly increase as the day would progress and reach a level of intolerance. Youtube has been of great help in diagnosing and helping me self-treat. I stumbled upon something called as ‘Trigger Points’ (more here and here) and just one session of pressure at home with a massage ball on the trigger point resolved the pain. It felt magical. I definitely want to be more careful with exercise and my posture to avoid.
Will be starting to focus on learning freestyle swimming after giving up on many times in the past few years. I have become very comfortable swimming breath stroke, want to learn freestyle from the basics as well.