I’ve had a similar experience.
Having better tools really makes a difference when revisiting old or half-finished projects.
Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
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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…
Weird. Don’t you have an equivalent to the Spanish “eso, esa”? Gendered object.
Portuguese is the same as Spanish here. In both cases you would avoid using a pronoun.
Like how in English you’d say “it helps me …” but in Spanish just “me ayuda …”
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I checked your link and fail to see how that is a pre AI project that you are only completing now, it is obviously a recent concept. Also your username matches the project, so this seems mostly like a lame attempt to shill your product by “joining the conversation”
You replied to a bot.
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#144I have revamped my home networking setup, installed raspberry pi, setup adguard on it for the home network, migrated my jellyfin set-up to it, integrated all these devices on tailscale, dealt with physical LAN point limitations by setting up a switch, repurposed old router to get around ISP imposed limitations, setup a three tier backup solution and so on. In themselves they are not particularly challenging but taken together, these personal projects had been pending for years.
Not any more. Few weekends and everything has been implemented and I have learned a ton in the process. It has been great fun doing this turbo charged tinkering. I think personal projects are where LLMs shine the brightest.
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#145So, what are you planning to do when you finish all your unfinished hobby projects?
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#146It’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…
Just curious, how long did you operate without AI? The burst in productivity I feel implies a time to accumulate these many small needs.
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As a native German speaker, I have also referred to a chatbot in English as "he", and similar to you, a native English speaker, felt jarred by it. It was definitely not out of any personification or humanization though. In German, I would say it is "der Chatbot" (from "der Roboter"), which in German is a male noun so I would refer to it as "er" (the male pronoun) - which in my head I autotranslated to "he". Most of t…
I mean, both in English and in german, that's how you would talk to a dog. "Er hat in die Ecke gepinkelt"/"He peed in the corner" (or "she", if it's a female dog). I don't know what is jarring talking about the chatbot like that. It may be creepier if you said "she wrote that program for me" as you now assign a specific gender to the chatbot.
It's how you'd talk about a dog that you know the sex of, but if you didn't know you'd probably use "it". An LLM doesn't have a sex or gender, so I think the natural way to refer to them is "it".
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#148It’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…
I finished a mod for Quake 2 I started in 1998 finally a few weeks ago. AI is really helping me get past the COVID burnout I was running of too many projects I half did. Fixed terminals (an rdp tool) today. Working on OpenRA bugs I opened issues 10 years ago now - engine is 10x faster and pathfinding mostly works properly.
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I want app X. I know how to code it but it'll take a whole weekend/vacation days. I would learn nothing. Now I can use AI to make it. What exactly am I losing here?
How do you know you'd learn nothing from it?
About three decades of programming experience.
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