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Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
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Re: Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And when you inevitably get bored with it, well, you've not done much anyway. I'm very interested in Local LLMs but the cheapest Mac Studio right now is more expensive than 8 years of a Claude Code Pro subscription, and incomparably slower/less capable. If I get bored with it, I will have a piece of unused hardware and a couple grand less in my bank account.
AMD 395+ w/128gb is all you need. the idea that mac studio is the default is a nerdfest.
I admittedly haven't done a ton of research lately on AI capable PC hardware because of how nuts prices are right now, so I might be missing something...
...but all the AMD 395+ machines I can find are even more expensive than the aforementioned cheapest Mac Studio. Mac Studio starts at $2,000 (only 32GB), AMD 395+ 128GB machines seem to start at $3,000 from what I can see.
Re: Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not weird if it comes from ESL. At least in portuguese there's no "it" equivalent for pronouns or any other neutral artifact in the language, in other words, everything has a gender, even an AI model, the same goes for objects e.g.: knife(she), fork(he), spoon(she), plate(he). People often commit mistakes regarding that, the same way we don't have "they" as pronoun to someone we don't know the gender, so we addr…
I believe this is common to all the Romance languages. In the Canadian French dialect all the swear words are incredibly versatile and church-related such as "osti" which I believe refers to the Eucharist. It just so happens that for nouns beginning with a bowel, you drop the e or the a from le/la, and use an apostrophe. So if you don't know if it's "le porte" or "la porte" you can use my favorite trick which is to s…
Quite an imaginative technique you got there.
Signé -Un Québécois
Re: Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
I took a few semesters of Dutch in college, and it has both gendered and neuter nouns for non-human objects. Interestingly though, the professor told us that in the northern parts of the Netherlands people don't really bother using the feminine ones ever and refer to every non-human gendered noun as masculine, which apparently also includes animals, meaning that a sizable portion of Dutch speakers will refer to cows…
Because the article for masculine and feminine are the same (“de”) so absolutely nobody knows the gender of anything. Source: am Dutch. Can’t wait for us to just ditch gendered nouns.
Dutch is one of the few languages where it's actually pretty plausible for something like this to happen! It blew my mind that sometimes you'll all (or I guess more specifically your government) will make changes to the language to clean up issues, but I guess that's one of the benefits to having a language that's mostly based in one country (and some seemingly political baggage for the few others with any significant number of speakers; my professor said that Flemish is basically also Dutch, but my naive impression is that the half of Belgium who speak it might not be happy with that description).
Re: Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
#135I prompted Claude code from my phone to revive Draw!, a pixel art editor I first published 15 years ago as an exploration using Redis as a DB.
The new version is live at http://pixel.drawbang.com after 1 week of prompting Opus 4.6 with a max subscription.
Re: Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
#136Three notetaking app attempts sitting in my private repos, all stalled at the gap between idea and free time. With Claude Code I finally got the one I really wanted out in two months. Building it has been the best hobby I've found. Beats games or scrolling. When you've been carrying an idea for years, the app that finally ships has more of you in it, and I'd bet we'll see a lot more of these from solo builders.
But who will buy it? No knocks against building old projects, but the market will be flooded with extremely speciality projects. I miss when every app had a spec on the box. I think we need something like that for usage. A new modeling language or something.
>the market will be flooded with extremely speciality projects
All the personal tools described in this thread are duct tape and bubblegum under the hood and nowhere near productionizable. That's what Claude Code makes for you.
The whole point is that for personal tools, code quality never really mattered since it's never going to be exposed to the public or be iterated upon by a revolving door team of devs like real software products. These are all highly overfitted tools that shave off like 15 seconds of time in the day for some particular person.
It's almost exactly like having a 3D printer for software, with exactly the kind of quality that a present-day 3D printer gives you.
Re: Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
#137It’s great. I have a stupendous amount of personal software now. Yesterday was a native text editor that was fully integrated into my mediawiki install and would autocomplete links and make syntax easier to use. No one could have built this software but me because it’s worth nothing to others. And I couldn’t build it because it takes too long. But when I’m using an agent to code the limited resource is my attention w…
It's crazy. I have something like 120 personal tools at this point and the pattern you describe is exactly right. The bottleneck moved from implementation to context switching. I started keeping a markdown file at the root of every project that captures state and next steps whenever I stop working on it, purely so I can resume without the 20-minute "wait where was I" tax. There's just no pressure to handle edge cases…
I’ve been asking it to make some of my game tools into static websites where possible.
I did pay the $10 for the following domains but i’m ok with that so i can share some of the fun things that come out of the agent.
grandcheaten.com - a save game editor and guide for jagged alliance 3
thedailycheat.com - a save game editor for newstower
Re: Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
#138My most abandoned type of projects are video games. I have a folder with tens of abandoned projects, I re-frame them as experiments at that point. This last week I decided to give Claude a go at one of these, and it's been a blast, it picked up the general path immediately. Since I said to CC they were abandon projects, he explicitly pushed into "lets have V0 game play loop finished, then we can compound and have fun…
I think this is the first time I've seen someone refer to an LLM as "he" rather than "it". No judgement, but I definitely found it interesting (and disconcerting).
That's what I felt when I heard that the god of abraham was a he.
Re: Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
#139It’s great. I have a stupendous amount of personal software now. Yesterday was a native text editor that was fully integrated into my mediawiki install and would autocomplete links and make syntax easier to use. No one could have built this software but me because it’s worth nothing to others. And I couldn’t build it because it takes too long. But when I’m using an agent to code the limited resource is my attention w…
Yes, I built an app to plan an Easter Scavenger Hunt. How niche is that?!
Re: Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
#140My most abandoned type of projects are video games. I have a folder with tens of abandoned projects, I re-frame them as experiments at that point. This last week I decided to give Claude a go at one of these, and it's been a blast, it picked up the general path immediately. Since I said to CC they were abandon projects, he explicitly pushed into "lets have V0 game play loop finished, then we can compound and have fun…
I think this is the first time I've seen someone refer to an LLM as "he" rather than "it". No judgement, but I definitely found it interesting (and disconcerting).
Time for claudette to make an apperance!