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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?

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Post by nzach »

flutas wrote: post #202

A "Home Agent" setup, with customized special agents to manage various aspects of the house through home assistant, learning feedback from household users to try and tune everything at the right time. Various MCPs for above. A "remote claude code server", that gives project level overview and lets me run projects / develop on my home server rather than locally through my laptop. Supports ssh as well as a web UI (proj…

Do you have any code/insights about this home agent you could share?

I'm thinking about creating something pretty similar, I want a digital housekeeper that keeps an eye on what is happening in my house and notifies me about dead/unreliable devices, fix broken automations, suggest new automations based on sensor data, etc...

I've setup the unofficial home assistant MCP already, but LLMs seems to struggle a bit to use it properly and I haven't looked into it yet to understand what is happening.

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Post by somberi »

netcoyote wrote: post #360

Tools I’ve built for myself: - sandvault https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/sandvault/ runs agents in a separate macOS user account, hardened with sandbox-exec. It also supports headless browsing and iOS Simulator from inside the sandbox for testing web and iOS apps. - clodpod https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/clodpod/ agents run inside a macOS VM. - git-multi-hook https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/git-multi-…

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Post by suncemoje »

I lost a camera recently and set up a Claude Cowork daily scheduled task to check if it finds my camera on a few marketplaces - Claude also goes through all the images and checks if it can see the serial number, which is engraved in the body. No luck so far, but we keep trying! It was incredibly easy to set up and uses my Chrome browser so it's logged into most platforms already.

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Post by raffraffraff »

bijowo1676 wrote: post #56
raffraffraff wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm working on a recommendation service (which, to me, it's the piece I'm missing when I play my local mp3 collection) I collect song metadata from various places (genre, instruments, track credits, rating). I also scrape charts by year, genre etc. Then I run an ETL job on the json data I have downloaded, pre-building queries for extremely fast lookup tables. This gets saved to Duckdb, which is used by my go web ui/a…

Did you ever have to pass Appstore review process? How do they look at copyright and stuff when you are publishing an app that plays your local mp3 collection (how does your mp3 collections ends up on your phone?)

Right now mine isn't an app (yet) it's the backend service (api and web) so I just run it in a browser.

For now I'm letting that backend access my files directly. The front end can also play YouTube music (free, using the yt-dlp method).

None of this is public yet so right now I don't need anyone's approval.

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Post by sadschnitzel »

I build a lot of data pipelines, and I've had to deal with too many inconsistent "source to target mapping specs" (usually Excel files) in integration and data projects in my life. They're too opaque for AI coding tools to get consistent results for generating implementations, suggesting tests, making test data etc. So I made "Satsuma" (https://equalexperts.github.io/satsuma-lang/)

At first glance, it's just a nice version-controllable, parseable DSL. But I also made succinct prompts with the grammar that lets LLMs produce and reason about Satsuma, a language server, CLI tools for the AI tools to use to navigate specs token-efficiently, reason about lineage, pretty viz in vscode plugins/syntax highlighting, some agent skills etc. There are metadata conventions for succinctly representing a lot of quirky formats and capturing common analytics conventions (scd2/Kimball/datavault/etc c.)

Yes, yes, I may have gotten carried away.

But I'm finding it really useful as a specification tool in projects for reverse engineering mappings from code/workflows, generating new code (dbt, Spark etc.)

This definitely isn't something I would've had the bandwidth to push this far before AI!

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