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Re: Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code

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do you have a video of someone using it?

Here is a video showing off using solveit for creating a web app. https://youtu.be/DgPr3HVp0eg?t=3120 To reiterate other comments, this is more about the methodology than the tool, but it is fun to see the tool in action too.

Thanks Erik - I've added that video to the article now.! :)

Re: Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code

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do you have a video of someone using it?

Here is a video showing off using solveit for creating a web app. https://youtu.be/DgPr3HVp0eg?t=3120 To reiterate other comments, this is more about the methodology than the tool, but it is fun to see the tool in action too.

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Re: Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code

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Without the intent of hijacking whatever it is you are trying to achieve: I've found the best antidote to the AI-fatigue is to rely less on it. There is no way I am going to spend my day, or my employees day for that matter in reviewing thousands of LoC of bad AI-slop. In my teams we've dialed it back to just consulting mode and asking suggestions,e.g. replacement for good old search, because once you ask the GenAI t…

Absolutely right! Although I've found AI great for learning. It doesn't write my code for me, or my prose, or my devops scripts, but it's part of the process of me learning as I write them.

Re: Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code

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One thing I loved about the first solveit course was how create the community is. It goes back to fast.ai too, but everyone is super kind, smart, and has diverse backgrounds.

We've captured a slice of that on our main site. Testimonials: https://solve.it.com/testimonials Some blog posts: https://solve.it.com/#showcases on the main page

And on of the students even made a project dashboard page showcasing all the things everyone has built! https://solveit-project-showcase.pla.sh/

He even blogged about it : ) https://himalayanhacker.substack.com/p/how-i-built-solve-it-...

Re: Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code

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I see a $400 price tag on a five week course. If it takes 5 weeks to learn how to use your product, I am skeptical that it has legs. Side note: supposedly this is the first cohort of this course, so how do you already have testimonials?

It's not a course on how to learn how to use the product. It's a course on how to think and solve problems, which makes you more effective in using the platform.

Re: Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code

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I read most of this before understanding that I wasn't reading about some new agent or IDE or something, I was reading a sales pitch for a coding course for would-be vibe coders, with AI training wheels in the form of ... a dialog box to talk to an LLM. I should have noticed the camp counselor / cultish / tedx vibes, throwin around REPL and feedback loops. I feel that it's somewhat misleading to present this as some…

In other words, a grift.

Same conclusion.

Re: Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code

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I've been using SolveIt for about a month and going through the previous cohort content. It's really hard to not to try to vomit out solutions and to go about something in a methodical way. It makes your work visible, maintainable and usable by others (and frankly yourself). It takes a lot of practice, but it is very much intangible and always in the process of becoming. If you want to focus on solving pretty much any problem, and a path to using AI effectively in any endeavor, then this is a really fulfilling path. You will find that there is more magic in AI than you suspect. Many praises to Jeremy and Johno and the SolveIt team. But don't take my word for it. I'm a fresh convert. Go check it out for yourself. It is subtle and requires nuance, so not for everyone.

Re: Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code

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So the antidote to AI fatigue is... more AI?

No, the first example shown doesn't use AI at all. The AI is an optional helper in the process, if needed/wanted.

The AI is an integral part of the platform. My impression from reading the reviews on their website is that you won’t go anywhere using Solveit if you don’t let the LLM give you feedback.

Sigh. I agree with the parent poster’s sentiment.

Re: Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, the first example shown doesn't use AI at all. The AI is an optional helper in the process, if needed/wanted.

The AI is an integral part of the platform. My impression from reading the reviews on their website is that you won’t go anywhere using Solveit if you don’t let the LLM give you feedback. Sigh. I agree with the parent poster’s sentiment.

as someone who uses solveit all the time, this has not been my experience
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