Bhardwaj Rish

I spent a day at Automatica, one of the world's largest robotics automation + photonics trade shows hosted in Munich once every two years. Here are my notes from it: Hooooly cow there are so many companies in the world! There were about 900 robotics automation companies, and 1200 photonics companies (!!). I really liked stepping out of my little software world to see that there is so much more tangible/physical world tech going on in the world. The robotics automation world seems to be split into 3 parts: The arm manufacturers - they make the arms, and sell them to system integrators The robot fingers (or any special grip, suction cup etc) manufacturers - they sell to system integrators too The system integrators - they go out to find customers, beverage factories, food industries and the like that need automation for specific use cases The system integrators operate on finding niches, and there are 2 types of niches: 1. Country / localization as a niche.  "We serve customers ...

Me: I have a png. black lines with transparent background. Can you help write python code to make the black lines slightly more thick please? Claude: Yeah, here's the python file.  Me: Ah, can you just run it for me? I've attached the file image, it's a turtle. Claude: I've run into an error. I can't find the file's name. (keeps thinking) It seems like I can't directly access the uploaded file through the analysis tool. This might be a limitation of how files are handled in this environment . Let me think of alternative approaches: I could create an HTML artifact that allows the user to upload the image and process it in the browser I could provide them with JavaScript code they can run locally I think the best approach would be to create an interactive HTML artifact that lets them upload their image and see the result processed in real-time. Me: Claude: Here's the tool you can upload your file to. (and then I upload the turtle) -- Yikes, this is good....

Claude Code blew my mind. It is SO good! I spent about a day with Claude Code fixing up old bugs on my website that I never made time to fix. The fixes are all in my private repo, but they were all the same bugs listed in the public one here . What blew my mind is my mental shift from coding things myself to just asking it to do them for me. 10 minutes in and I stopped writing code myself. It still takes some back and forth, and it doesn't yet get everything right, but the fact that I didn't have to write code myself was a big shift. What Claude Code did Made my website responsive.  My website had a whole lot responsiveness problems . CSS is a tedious little monster and so I never got myself to learn Bootstrap and other front end frameworks. With Claude Code, I just had to tell it in English what I wanted it to do, and it did them exactly as I wanted them. No more CSS for me! Added Dark Mode. I've always wanted dark mode. With Claude Opus 4 it basically three shotted it,...