Regardless of "AI" being good or bad (it's not even just one thing as many of you know), I feel like the "What are you working on?" posts are drowning in things that use AI for something and/or are clearly "AI slop".
I'd like to look at things other humans have been doing (even if they used a bit of some kind of AI for assistance), that aren't a product or tool that uses AI for something.
I know it exists (and I use and build some), but it's incredibly hard to find nowadays. Can you help me?
Thank you.
https://www.didgets.com
https://fillvisa.com/form/usa-ds160/
The State Department's CEAC portal times out constantly. Session expires, you lose progress. Every tool that solves this charges some money, or bundles you into an attorney service.
So I built a free interface to fill your DS-160 comfortably at your own pace - then a one-click bookmarklet autofills the CEAC portal for you. No account. No data leaving your browser. 100% free.
~10M+ nonimmigrant visa applicants file this form every year.
For some people, getting a US visa denied can ruin their lives (job loss).
The open source version is live at https://github.com/devlensio/devlensOSS
You can star the repo if you like the project. I am still working on cloud version which will have lots of features.
https://www.mathabito.com/
There's a new undocumented version of the board with surface mount parts that rhymes with the old known through hole version.
After that I want to spend the weekend just closing out Pion bugs/relaxing :)
I work with Newspeak every night building all kinds of crazy stuff, from the raycasting tutorial to an IndexedDB interface. Currently, I have the IDE running as an Isolated Web App for access to TCPSockets [1][2][3].
I'm implementing ancient TCP protocols bringing them to the web.
[0] https://newspeaklanguage.org
[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/iwa
[2] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/iwa/direct-sockets
[3] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/telnet-client (example IWA)
In Moveable Feast, Hemingway talks about being opposed to ski lifts (which were probably fairly new at the time). He thought, if you're fit enough to hike up the mountain, you're going to be fit enough to ski down without getting injured; it opens skiing up to people who maybe shouldn't be skiing. I deeply prefer ski lifts. :-) And I love agentic AI coding.
I guess what I'm saying is that we shouldn't compare it to the past, because that's gone. And yet, each month the number of comments breaks 1000, so "drowning" is a fair word for just number of projects alone. And I don't have any answers.
Anyway, you (and anyone reading this) can feel free to email me. My email in my profile.
Writing code to coax computers into doing specific things in specific ways is a craft, trade, and art form older than pretty much anybody alive today.
Writing prose instructions to direct LLM's to generate that code also produces software, but it's essentially a different craft/trade/art altogether.
Whatever success the latter claims in commerce or mindshare, both of these arts will coexist for longer than anybody will be around.
It's completely natural to carve out spaces where people who appreciate the process or character of hand-crafted projects can discuss those projects without people talking about a whole different thing crowding out their conversations.
Personally, I'm not sure a separate thread makes sense. What if people mark their project as "[ARTISAN]" like they do with [Remote] in Who's Hiring? Any other ideas?
One day, way before the lifts had started, I hiked up the mountain, snowboard under my arm. Trudging, my breath heavy, lungs filling, oxygen, snow, blue sky, cold but my body warmed. There was not one track in the fresh powder. My snowboard was slower in the powder, and I felt safe in the knowledge. I had to work a little harder. Carving.