DrSiemer
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Comment · 19 days ago
My first project with it was in Jan 22, back when it was just sentence completion. Really hard to implement practically.
But in the past year the production boost is just insane. LLM assistance took away so many of the barriers that prevented me from executing on ideas.
I've also learned more than ever before, although it is admittedly getting harder to stay involved when the models are becoming more and more reliable.
What I have not figured out yet is why most developers around me do not share this effect. It's like it mostly works for a very specific subset of people, that do understand code, but it's not their main focus.
Just take a look at what is happening with the M-Wave FM1. Stating those devs would be lost without Ai won't stop the tide. It's not going to go away.
Comment · 1 month ago
My own tool has a Project Starter, that takes users from idea to todo list in a number of very specific phases. I've been using it for small to medium sized projects for a year now and it still works great for me.
Just don't expect to end up with a finished project; it's more like a first draft. Once it's there, it's much easier to determine what it is you actually want, since you can directly experience what works and what should be changed.
One important caveat is that I do not work with agents; each step goes through a fairly rigid manual review phase.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yeah, not a great experience, but it will let you play if you just register with something random.
Comment · 2 months ago
That only strengthens the example. Their recommendations are usually awful.
I'd argue even that is done better on underground services. Plus they'll just show you actually useful metrics, like the IMDB rating.
Comment · 3 months ago
Europe is full of people who are not fans, but will still hear all about the games when their country plays, because it's basically impossible to avoid. Chat groups, work banter, waiting rooms, everybody will be talking about it ALL THE TIME. There is a base level of knowledge for the sport everybody shares. Maybe it's the same with American Football in the US? As a European, I still have no idea what that is even remotely about.
A game having two main uninterrupted halves is one of those foundational facts. Players train for being able to play for that long without getting too thirsty to continue.
Comment · 3 months ago
Being able to distill a story down into bite sized chunks sounds like an optimization for the younger generation, with their 20 second attention span.
It's not something I necessarily associate with "good writing". Or does the skill transcend the medium and help you write better long form content as well?
Comment · 3 months ago
Haha, yep, first thing I thought of as well. I still have a offline copy of that exact site saved somewhere.
Comment · 3 months ago
One of my side projects is a tool that lets you control your entire system with STT. It's built on Whisper and supports hot swapping custom profiles, so you can add easy commands for any software.
I intend to use it to work on low stakes vibe coding projects while I'm doing other stuff. Todays LLMs are a lot better at interpreting rambling dictation with mid-message corrections.
There are a few paid programs out there that do the same, but they made my vibe slop sense tingle and are not aimed at development.
Comment · 3 months ago
The one advantage of actually trying to use SO was that the fear of asking a question usually made me do so much research that I'd solve my issue in the process of fully describing it.
That did also make the community lose out on the answer though.
Comment · 3 months ago
It would be pretty cool if it could convert a splat to a super compact high performance 3D ASCII widget
Comment · 3 months ago
That money is for the research, not salary
Comment · 4 months ago
Wealth, not income. The statistic is about net worth growth. Saying "that's wealth, not income" doesn't refute it. It just clarifies the mechanism.
Comment · 4 months ago
If the system is rigged heavily against you, relying on it to affect change does feel like a losing strategy.
The fact that such a large part of the population supports literal murder could also be considered a political statement. One that would not have been expressed so strongly without what happened.
So much of this madness could be resolved with a simple income cap. Musk’s wealth grew by $1 million per minute over the past year. Who can seriously argue that this is fair and balanced?
Comment · 4 months ago
CodeMerger: https://codemerger.nl
I've never liked the lack of control I feel using agents or tools like Cursor or Antigravity. I found myself having much better results simply pasting full source code in free chat, so I built a tool around that philosophy and I've been exclusively developing with it for a year now. It includes a Project Starter and code architecture analysis tool.
Presentable: a photo library sorter with Ai powered organization assistance, a compare canvas with various viewing modes and customizable folder sorting shortcut templates (wip).
AlwaysWhisper: a tool that let's me attach STT to my entire OS, with custom wrappers for different programs, adding theoretical voice control to any software (wip).
ScreenLoader: an Electron based tool that can load any web source as a kiosk app, full of useful features like keep-alive, covering multiple screens and tracking output logs.
Inputboard: a unified all-inputs hardware board, that transfers input data to any prototype I want to work on using an optocoupler, so I won't have to fiddle around with setting up clean and reliable inputs from cheap Chinese components every time I just want to test something.
Squire: an agentic board game helper, that can ingest a manual and will hopefully help decrease the time spent on endless discussions about seemingly conflicting rules. It should also be able to help me play a game when I don't fully understand the rules myself yet (wip).
NodeRunner: an agent that plays the WikiGame, focusing on speed, efficiency and token usage (the result of a fun competition with a colleague).
Sonic Bloom: more of an experiment than a tool. It's a wireless piece of custom hardware, that listens to conversations, sends data to an LLM through fast STT and returns a color choice that matches the topic being discussed to the hardware, which then controls an LED ring. It also has a small display that explains the logic behind the color choice.
Image-to-story: a VLM tool that kickstarts a written story using an image and has some rudimentary tools to expand on it based on user instructions (wip).
At-work-or-not: and Android app/website where colleagues can check if I'm working from home, if I'll be at the office or if I'm not working at all. Also doubles as a private record for tracking transport expenses.
SharedMaps: a Maps based website where groups of people can share custom categories of geo locations and drop comments on them.
VMG: an image format that includes audio with images and offers TTS input to easily add narration.
Who wants Coffee: a small Android app to help me remember who wants to drink what when I go for a round at the office.
And a pile of Python scripts for smaller useful tasks.