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Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

#491

- create your own digital Lego minifgure - https://www.BrickifyMe.com - create your own coloring pages - https://www.coloringsai.com - World Cup Prediction Pool - https://www.wk-pool.com And many more

You might want to add a filter to the colorings page. Under the "realistic" category, it is filled with images of Hitler:

https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/hitler-doing-a-...

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

#492
One of the "huh, didn't expect that to work" moment was getting GLM 5 to make me a user space driver for the Nintendo Switch Pro 2 Controller on Ubuntu.

When you plug it in, the device is recognised, but press any button and it attempts to start the pairing process. Then using evtest nothing is coming through.

That^ was pretty much my prompt too, and 10 minutes later I have a working driver with systemd unit so it works through restarts. Amazing stuff!

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

#493
I built a route planner. I walk around the city where I live a lot and love exploring new streets, but at some point it became difficult to plan routes through streets I hadn’t walked down yet, so I created an app that lets you plan different types of routes. You can specify the percentage of overlap with streets you’ve already traveled, create a route from point A to point B, a circular route, or a one-way route. You can add streets to your favorites or exclude them. The app runs only on my local computer. I use it all the time.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

#494
A website that tracks when we last went on a weekend trip and other kinds of things, and reminds us with a cute friendly (not AI written) email when it's time to plan something again!

It really helps us to not forget to spend significant time with each other when life is busy.

A rant follows.

I've generated probably as many lines of code by this point as I've written myself over the past 5 years or so.

I found AI generated code mostly very frustrating, kind of low quality in its own way, and too complex. I have pages and pages of instructions to guide the agent(s) to do a better job at this, and it has gotten better, but the fundamental limit of this technology is tangible.

Like, okay, CPUs still get faster every year, and every now and then someone makes a breakthrough and we get a bump in speed from something. But when you write high performance code, you very quickly run into hardware constraints, like how fast information can move and how far away components are from the CPU cores themselves. People keep saying performance isn't THAT important, and that modern hardware is so fast and amazing, and that they struggle to even find a way to use all of their CPU cores and RAM with their little app or program or game. Yet here I am, writing code that will noticably speed up if I run it on a CPU with a little bit more L1 cache.

This is similar to how it feels to program with AI when you're reasonably competent (to put it mildly; I avoid the 10x developer label because comparison to others is very silly). Everyone keeps saying it's getting so much better, and it's so good, and worrying about code quality and architecture is dumb because we can move so fast it doesn't matter. Yet here I am, writing code by hand because I tried doing it with AI a couple times and it just doesn't hit the mark.

I'm not doing anything special, I just have high standards and a good amount of experience when it comes to software quality, performance, and maintainability, which is why I keep getting hired. I'm convinced that people who think their AI generated software is good are the same people who write short variable names and think it makes their software faster (hyperbole, but you get what I mean).

I can feel when I hit the limits of the hardware, and I can feel when I hit the limits of LLMs, and I know for both of them that a 2x increase in performance will not change what is and isn't physically possible.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

#495
- replaced tmux as project session manager with https://github.com/artemave/hop (Linux, SwayWM)

- https://github.com/artemave/artwall rotates my desktop wallpaper through random paintings (Linux, SwayWM)

- I get my TILs through https://t.me/daily_bite_sized_fun_fact

- https://t.me/tolmach_forward_bot helps me practice French reading

- https://mini-meet.artem.rocks/ was an attempt to circumvent RKN (russians) blocking video calls; not a complete success, but works for some people

- counted the number of dudes in Big Lebowski with https://github.com/artemave/super_video_grep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7EUtIbOd1w)

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

#496

* plugin for Logic Pro to A/B mix with reference tracks, with ai-based stem splitter (e.g. isolate vocals in ref track, and compare with your vocal track) * plugin for Logic Pro to simulate how a mix will sound on my macbook and phone (I captured real impulse responses for that, sounds very close) * an app for spaced repetition for guitar video lessons / their parts (no idea why platforms like truefire don’t have thi…

Awesome - i've been meaning to look into ableton live plugins or Max. Would love to use my software background to improve my production workflow.

Go for it! It's very satisfying :)

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

#500
transitioned from my OmniOutliner 3(!) based system last year finally to modern macOS and obsidian.

1 year later, with no js/ts skills at all, i got 10 custom plugins, several forks where i fixed bugs and some custom adapations, dozens of scripts and snippets and what not

Now obsidian works for me like I want, and still every day I use it Im still in awe

It is a bit hard to describe until I make a video but basically I seem to have changed the fundamental unit from a document to a chunk and it is just awesome

none of which would have been possible without AI

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