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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

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Post by realo »

jeromegv wrote: post #133
stackghost wrote: post #127

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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

Oui. i imagine what would happen if he came to someone with:

Ding dong... voici l'osti de pizza que l'osti de téléphone a commandé à partir de l'osti de maison. Maintenant donnes l'osti d'argent.

Indeed...

Re: Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

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Post by apple4ever »

For me, the journey is more important than the destination. Using coding assistance takes all the fun out of it, as well as the learning. (Not to mention adding aggravation of dealing with prompts and figuring out whether the response is correct or not).

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Post by teo_zero »

rasz wrote: post #184
teo_zero wrote: post #158

> things I really wish existed. Just last week I was looking for a way to move all the windows from one screen to another in a go. After evaluating many clumsy or over-complicated existing solutions, I asked copilot to write a C program to do it. It had to be minimal and not depend on any runtime framework. A few loops later I had what I wanted without installing third-party tools!

> move all the windows from one screen to another in a go Sounds like a job for 10 line AutoHotkey script.

In fact it was one of the suggested tools. But installing a whole new application, and having it running in the background all the time listening for evey keypress, just to do its unique job once in a while... well, that's what I was referring to when I mentioned "over-complicated solutions".

Of course if you already have AutoHotKey running for other reasons, it fits perfectly.

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Post by zormino »

roncesvalles wrote: post #136
guessbest wrote: post #125

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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…

I really like the 3d printer analogy. You can still make some pretty cool stuff, you can make some pretty complex things if you carefully design the whole system and put in the effort to print each part individually, and quality depends both on how good of a 3d printer you have and on the proper use of it. "3d print me a new house" is still a pipe-dream: you'll get some miniature facsimile of a house, sure, but a proper house requires proper tools and expertise.

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Post by polski-g »

KronisLV wrote: post #173
arcatek wrote: post #17

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Isn't Godot a little ill-designed to work well with LLMs? for example I ended up a couple of times with incorrect tres files, and letting the llm generate IDs feel a little fragile.

I don’t think Godot is any worse than other engines inherently, other than it moving forwards pretty quickly and the latest versions not being in the training data. I wanted to evaluate which engines would be the best for working with LLMs in and it seems like Flax and Stride kind of come out on top - the former has a lot of stuff out of the box (including terrain) and the latter is all C# basically which is great fo…

See3D is very good at generating assets, characters, in 3D.

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Post by solraph »

meken wrote: post #205
solraph wrote: post #159

I know how to write code, I just don't have time. AI has been an absolute game changer in let me get OS projects out into the world that I just didn't have time to build before. I'm having an absolute blast spinning up local GUI applications for Linux that I wanted to exist, but didn't have enough motivation to build before. (Shameless plug) * Sambervise: https://github.com/edward-murrell/sambervise - A Linux GUI app…

Just some feedback - I would love to see some screenshots in your GitHub READMEs!* *I saw the second project has a partial screenshot, but not a full one.

Good point, I'll do that.

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Post by rhubarbtree »

nickthegreek wrote: post #197
rhubarbtree wrote: post #185

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Could you try to revive it by hand? I’m curious as to how long it would have taken.

Absolutely insane request.

Not the whole thing. Just a day looking at it. Did they do that?

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Post by tkgally »

bbkane wrote: post #198
tkgally wrote: post #104

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> Claude Code is brilliant for personal apps. Agreed. The clipboard manager I had been using on my Macs for many years started flaking out after an OS update. The similar apps in the App Store didn’t seem to have the functionality I was looking for. So inspired by a Simon Willison blog post [1] about vibe coding SwiftUI apps, I had Claude Code create one for me. It took a few iterations to get it working, but it is n…

Could you share the source to your Markdown editor? I'm always looking for new ones

Drop me an email; I’ll be happy share the code privately. My contact information is on my website, which is linked from my HN profile.

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Post by tarr1124 »

guessbest wrote: post #228
tarr1124 wrote: post #170

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Selling would be nice, but a lot of solo builders are mainly in it for the building. The note app I wanted didn't exist anywhere. I was close to hiring a contractor to build it, so it's already worth tens of thousands of dollars to me. I want to make a bit off it but not run a real business. No VC, no employees. If it earns enough to pay my own salary, I get to keep building it as my job, which beats most startup exi…

Do you have a link to the note app? Just curious what could make it unique, not criticizing anyone.

Honestly, "note app" is a stretch. What I wanted was a knowledge system modeled on PoIC, a Japanese index-card method that predated Evernote. I tried building it on Obsidian and other markdown tools for years and structured notes never stuck for me. I just wanted to talk into my phone and dump quick fragments, then have something extract knowledge and tasks out of them. LLMs and Claude Code closed most of the gap. Now journals, web clips, and daily deep-think sessions all land in it, and Claude Code semi-solves the tasks it pulls out. I'm probably ADHD and it seems to hit for that crowd. Most people would look at it and say "why not Obsidian" lol.

OSS, with the skill + CLI layer built around Claude Code: https://github.com/rillmd/rill

Mac app at https://rill.md/. Still very much in development. If you give it a spin, I'd love feedback either as a GitHub issue or right here.

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