Built a tool to help design cs/science inspired jewelry in CAD. I wrote a DSL to describe the jewelry, and had an LLM write the interpreter to generate a CAD file using cadquery (note to self: LLM suck at 3d reasoning). I would not have had the time to do this without AI. Also used AI to design an online store (I'm not a front end dev). It's amazing to see my wife (non-technical background) tweak the web-site using c…
Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
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#672Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#673I added prebuilt puzzles https://wordbulb.com/puzzle-games/word-search/
Then I added a massive library of Bible Verses https://wordbulb.com/puzzle-games/word-search/tag/bible
Then I added a massive 700+ Bhagavad Gita verses https://wordbulb.com/puzzle-games/word-search/tag/gita
I see parents and teachers using this almost daily. I am very happy that I made something useful.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#674The pattern generalized is LLM finds the presets,i can even upload a file to make it zone in, the code validates and loads into the plugin. Also using this contract/adapter approach for Terraform, game engine presets, CI pipelines, etc.
Wrote about it here: https://vishsubramanian.me/lm-guitar-tone-generator-polychro...
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
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#677Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#678The one tool i noticed could be helpful given the volume of screenshots i share with the agents is screenshotter: just a simple script that watches my screenshot folder and compresses the images so i can save some bandwidth and hopefully some tokens https://github.com/mgranados/screenshotter
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#679- self-hosted POPSQL alternative - https://github.com/p-raj/collab-sqlc - CleanMyMac alternative based on opensource tools - https://github.com/p-raj/open-cleanmymac - Standup meetings to comic generation - https://github.com/p-raj/standup-to-comics - Configurable Pomodoro - https://github.com/p-raj/open-tomato A few more closed source ones that aren't any close to be in a working state.
Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
#680https://anomalyarmor.ai/ - A tool for managing data observability and data anomalies.
Used daily by customers but also for my own work. These tools fill a gap that helps me get sh*t done.