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

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Having fun building something in software I always pushed for "when I will find the time".

Being proud of the result.

THAT is a real game changer LLMs allowed me, both in my professional and my casual life.

For example this:

https://github.com/yodalf/coincan.git

or this:

https://github.com/yodalf/kiosk.git

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Having fun building something in software I always pushed for "when I will find the time". Being proud of the result. THAT is a real game changer LLMs allowed me, both in my professional and my casual life. For example this: https://github.com/yodalf/coincan.git or this: https://github.com/yodalf/kiosk.git

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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…

I've found that Gemini Pro is surprisingly good at 3d reasoning. To back that claim up, I've had it create:

A WebGl program that takes input like X123 Y123 Z123 via WebSerial every 100 ms and builds an object out of the resulting path. Required some performance optimizations (just had to tell it what to do). Also asked it to make the corners nicer and it did. (To be fair, I'd already asked a lesser model and put some things in the prompt to nudge it the right way.)

Various OpenSCAD models. E.g., remote control holder with 5 slots, staggered heights, slight slant because it looks cool, and the slots all have different depths. One shot. It implemented the slant/tilt using a shearing matrix. 100 points.

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RainBreak - https://rainbreak.franzai.com/ Blocks the computer for x minutes. Agents keep on working. AI doesn't need a break, but I do. And honestly, at least for me AI has made my desktop as addicting my social media feed.

This is awesome idea. Thanks for sharing. I extensively track my ScreenTime cross devices (phone, laptop) and try to reduce it under 6 hours a day. This would be helpful!

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

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I've made a number of ceramic molds for slumping fused glass into bowls. As well as wooden templates for ceramic mugs. I've devised a few carrying tools to move glass frit paintings from my studio down to my barn where the kilns sit without spilling the glass. Or were you only asking about digital tools? I haven't really made any of those. Making physical tools feels much more satisfying these days.

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Having fun building something in software I always pushed for "when I will find the time". Being proud of the result. THAT is a real game changer LLMs allowed me, both in my professional and my casual life. For example this: https://github.com/yodalf/coincan.git or this: https://github.com/yodalf/kiosk.git

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I've made a number of ceramic molds for slumping fused glass into bowls. As well as wooden templates for ceramic mugs. I've devised a few carrying tools to move glass frit paintings from my studio down to my barn where the kilns sit without spilling the glass. Or were you only asking about digital tools? I haven't really made any of those. Making physical tools feels much more satisfying these days.

Best comment on the thread. Fellow potter & sculptor here, is your work online anywhere?

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

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Too many to mention. Daily drivers: replacements for CapCut, Granola. A remote image viewer to see screenshots in VMs. A simple agent harness to drive spec to verification. A YouTube video summarizer. https://github.com/ozten - some public repos, but the majority are private repos

What does your CapCut thing do? Somewhat related - I wish there was some local thing I could give my 100 holiday videos and it made something fun with the highlights to a specified duration.

There were two paid features of CapCut that I vibe-coded using Remotion as the basis.

1) Automatically editing out pauses 2) Making those TikTok-like captions

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

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A graphviz substitute in rust:

https://azriel.im/disposition/

The text editor has an LSP built in to guide you to what can be entered, but see the examples.

I wanted a way to have visual documentation that can show/hide detail, and be pure svg so that it can be pasted into sites without becoming pixelated.

Also supports animations to show interactions between hosts, which always gets messy when drawing a static diagram.

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

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I’m a UK teacher. I have built a custom GPT that marks essays for the subject I teach in a repeatable and reliable way. It gives actionable feedback to students. I use it, and have given my students access to it too - they use it to help their revision.

UC Berkeley just banned the use of AI for conceptualising, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing student work.
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