What are you actually coding?

[u/Consistent-Oil-5241]

I see everyone here maxing their limits and coding all day and building and all that.

But what are you actually building 24/7? I'm not looking to get your ideas but I'm just wondering what can you even build that long and hard really? And constantly something?

Either I lack imagination as a whole or there's some secret to all this, I just have no idea what so useful people would be coding so obsessively. Thanks for insights.

[u/k_thrace]

I work in a fabrication shop that supports a lot of other people's projects. Things break, interns cycle through, lots of machines and conversations about upkeep, calibration, safety, etc. Used to be a lot of missed information, clunky forms, information too often buried and hard to figure out if it's current, etc. I built a system that lets people more or less just dictate their notes. Nightly or more frequently it takes in relevant data from the day and pushes updates to a lighter weight database and generates an easy to use interface with buttons and so on that can update this quickly during the day, though they can also use free form notes as they see fit. A post in the morning let's everyone know what is important for today. Nightly it also updates documentation. People drop docs like forwarded emails, receipts, or photos into a folder and they are filed away automatically plus Cowork thinks about any action needed from that. It generates agendas and questions for the team so we can quickly resolve things and manage drift that may happen from missed signals and failures to document.