Beeminder šŸ¤ Claude MCP

Nice work! And very cool. Can you create Beeminder goals with it too? It looks like it would work a million times better than using ChatGPTā€™s new Operator feature:

(Sadly Beeminderā€™s UI for specifying initial rate hopelessly confused it and got me on the hook for 30 AI notes in the following 5 days :sweat_smile: ā€“ I ended up replacing that goal with one for my new AGI Friday newsletter.)

(Thanks to @clarissalittler who tried that first, apparently with more success.)

Iā€™d say you understand Beeminder as well as anyone, and Claude and ChatGPT are pretty spot on just from their own brains already as well.

Claude just now

Me: can you give me the philosophy of Beeminder in a couple sentences?
Claude: Beeminder is a goal-tracking and behavior change tool that combines commitment contracts with quantified self-tracking. Its core philosophy is that by requiring users to put real money on the line that theyā€™ll forfeit if they go off track (called ā€œderailingā€), and by showing clear visual feedback through a ā€œyellow brick roadā€ graph of their progress, people can overcome akrasia (acting against oneā€™s better judgment) and stay committed to their long-term goals.

(Couldnā€™t really have said it better myself, other than it not getting the memo about the Bright Red Line.)

I guess context windows arenā€™t big enough yet to fit all of help.beeminder.com plus the blog archives in?

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