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They have hit the point of being useful for me, but, the problems remaining to make them truly great are pretty deep.
I'm potentially open to opensourcing but I don't really expect it to help.
I expect people could fix little bugs or make small UI improvements. But, honestly, not better than Fable or Mabel (my human thinking assistant who is working on this on the side, rhyme-scheme unintended). And, they could fine-tune things to fit their idiosyncratic preferences.
But the central problems IMO require some fairly deep thinking, design taste, and a mix of "personal metacognitive taste, and, ability to troubleshoot other people's metacognitive failures and turn them into UI solutions."
One core problem is "the difference between just-in-time advice that is helpful vs annoying is pretty subtle." A lot of how it's currently useful to me depends on me having built up some metacognitive muscles that took awhile to develop. (for example, noticing when I've seen a few unhelpful suggestions in a row, and then thinking "okay what would the ideal suggestions here actually be?")
That all said, if anyone is explicitly interested in installing it and trying out some kind of iteration, feel free to DM me about that. I think I won't go fully opensource but can add people to the project.
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.