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

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Post by brokenmachine »

hoyd wrote: post #80

I have made a TUI tool for organizing and authoring sermons written by myself. It also has a third mode for reading one or two bible versions in parallel. I love the interface and keep adding features to make it easy to navigate in and something that actually helps me to organize and write sermons. Some features are to have notes at specific places in the bible, summaries, notes, exports to html/pdf, metadata for eac…

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Post by sethd »

- https://github.com/sethdeckard/atria : TUI for managing multiple AI coding agents that doesn't force a particular workflow on you. You can use tmux, the built-in PTY, or terminal integrations with iTerm2, kitty, or WezTerm.

- https://github.com/sethdeckard/loadout : TUI and CLI for managing a personal library of Claude Code and Codex skills across your machines.

- https://github.com/sethdeckard/atlas : TUI and CLI (also works as "cd launcher") that creates a smart, automatic map of every Git repository under your projects root.

I'm using these almost daily.

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Post by foobarian »

I didn't build tools in the classic sense of something you build and run semi permanently, like baked into your setup or home server or whatnot; but I found myself building bespoke tools with most new projects at work. Get a new Jira ticket, figure out which components will be involved, often times the tool goes collecting logs and parsing them into a Web UI with buttons to toggle various features or params. And it tends to be different for every project. It's like the oldschool shell oneliners but more powerful and easier to write.

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Post by ElFitz »

I’m working on Descartes[^0]. First to help diagnose what’s wrong with a machine. Later to help manage and monitor it by letting an agent build layers of tailor-made deterministic rules and statistical models, a bit like the description of the ship’s AI at the beginning of Absolution Gap. And serve as an ops "point of contact" for other agents for the machine / fleet of machines it’s in charge of.

Sometimes I daydream that the end goal demo would be to set one up in a VM and let a sort of ransomware lose in it, and see if the agent can identify what’s going on and react in time.

But for now I’m fighting Apple notarization to enable local notifications on macOS.

[0]: https://github.com/lightless-labs/descartes

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Post by jfim »

flutas wrote: post #192
jfim wrote: post #185

A pile of various tools: A self hosted web archiving tool with support for extendible processing pipelines (eg. extract article -> translate -> summarize -> generate tags, download video -> split audio track -> transcribe -> summarize), which led me to make a managed chromium browser with extensions and warc support for archiving, and a RSS feed synthesizer (take random article listing page that doesn't have RSS and…

Several of these sound interesting to me, gonna check them out tonight!

Cool! Just a heads-up that some of this is in a pretty rough state, but shoot me an email if you have any questions or issues.

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Post by davidsojevic »

The most comprehensive tool I've built so far was a JSONPath playground [0] when I was working on a game where I found myself writing a fair bit of JSONPath (well, JSONPath Plus specifically) expressions by hand and wanted to be able to test them out in the same way that I would on regex101 when writing regular expressions.

I realistically probably would have only saved myself less than an hour of crafting those expressions if the tool had already existed (with this level of detail, there are lots of many simpler ones already for it), but I would have spent a solid 40-50 hours of bouncing between manually crafting and writing detailed instructions to direct the agents to get this tool there.

[0] https://jsonpath101.com/

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Post by djeastm »

feerfreeflight wrote: post #143

An attempt at an artificial unconscious. Turns out it’s pretty hard to inspire an LLM to be creative. https://sisuonspeaks.com/

Do you have a write-up on how it works under the hood or is it meant to be more mysterious?

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Post by ceejayoz »

slopinthebag wrote: post #183

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You don't think Steve Jobs was proud of the iPhone, despite others doing most of the actual physical work on it?

I'm more than a mere typist; there's a skill to getting a usable, useful app out of an AI.

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