jaredsohn

Your original post (and even after this comment I think) was vague in that AI can be used in a lot of different ways in 'production' - to generate code, to manage deployment / scripts, or as part of a feature that uses inference.

For example, if you're writing code with AI, you can still review it just like you would if a colleague wrote it. You can write tests (or have the AI do so) to prevent some hallucinations, too.

This question is too vague to answer.

This xkcd is again relevant: https://xkcd.com/2501/

I find it great for nutrition and cooking. I used AI to build a food tracker that works at the micronutrient level (LLMs built the code but are mostly not used in the app itself) but many of my prompts are helping me to learn nutrition in general.

I also use it to help me learn to cook more/better so I ask it questions about the how / why and have made a database of recipes that I tweak based on interests / abilities.

A neat thing is you can always ask AI - what can I do to eat or cook better? Then you do it and keep repeating.

Treat context like git shas. Yes, there is a specific order within a 'branch' but you should be able to do the equivalent of cherry-picking and rebasing it

I connected a few times today to the IPv4 one. Have had no problems myself.

To watch Star Wars in ASCII.

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhcf6tc2jeQ

(Remember hearing about this a long time ago (from some searching I think it was in 1999 via Slashdot) and verified some instance of it still exists/works.)

To focus on Excel / Google Sheets itself, AI makes it a lot more usable in that you can describe what you want and it can generate formulas for you. I have a running spreadsheet that I had to manually manipulate because I didn't know how to automate some parts and a few minutes with an LLM fixed it for me.

In other discussions of this, I've heard that it can be faked and it isn't great to get people - esp kids - in the habit of sharing video of themselves to websites

To respond to everyone at once -

I have experience and teachers so I'm not solely relying on these videos. I use the short videos as a fast discovery of what's out there and I'll sometimes watch long videos afterward. LLM sites also work well for this discovery and I use that sometimes but it is a bit more work from me (which sounds strange to write re: AI) because I have to type out what I want instead of relying on algorithms that use data collected about me.

I use Facebook Reels (rather thank TikTok) which show me stuff anyway after I click on a link shared by friends so having it show me things relevant to learning seems like the best option here in case I click on next video.

I've started using these platforms for learning (stretch exercises, argentine tango patterns/musicality I might want to lead, etc) and am finding the experience to work better in those kinds of situations. Agree it can be brain rot if using it for entertainment, politics, etc.

Next step is allow viewing TikTok like wikipedia. Take a bunch of popular tiktok posts, use an LLM to describe what's happening via text/screenshots (with references to memes, etc), and link them to other relevant tiktoks.

Some meme sites might be somewhat similar to this.

Good software engineers are concerned with product strategy. They might not be able to decide things but they can help inform product about options because they're closer to actually building things.

If you just implement product tickets you'll probably get replaced by LLMs.

You can do balance / stretching exercises - lean against a wall, stand on one foot, etc.

Similar for me but maybe on a 386; used this 1989 book which had its own version of quickbasic called qbi since qbasic only got added to ms-dos in 1991.

https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Basic-Now-Mike-Halvorson/dp/155...

Why not just use a standard LLM prompt?

>(my understanding of claude code is that it's a non-interactive agent, which is worse for what i have in mind. iteration and _changing my mind_ are a big part of my process, so even if I let the computer do its own thing for an hour and work on something else, that's less productive than spending even 10 minutes of focused time on the same thing.)

Just use 'plan mode'; it will ask clarifying questions.

Ruby has https://github.com/bokmann/business_time but when I looked at it, custom code was needed to calculate holidays that were offset because they are on the weekend.

Another way to think of it is if you're blurting out your thinking you're reducing redundant work and perhaps inspiring the other person to think of additional solutions that are offshoots of what you're dismissing. I see merits to both ways of looking at this.

My guess is this is so OpenAI can treat it as annual recurring revenue which helps with their stock valuation. I've seen non-LLM API vendors do this with their credits as well.

I started tracking everything I ate three years ago and even posted about it via this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32552288

I updated it substantially via AI this summer (includes micros, compounds, and various other stats and a webpage with charts now) and then I started making diet changes based on these new features. Is really neat to compare data from before and after those changes. And like you suggested, I keep making improvements to the system and to myself and it becomes really satisfying / motivational.

Is still driven by simple text files.

That's incorrect, though. There needs to be demand for that skill, too.

Tried saving on jsonformatter right now and I see this:

"We are stopping save facility to prevent NSFW content and working on to make it better.

We understand this may be inconvenient, but we're taking proactive measures to ensure our platform remains safe and appropriate for all users. "

Or like Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal show on HBO Max. Also, the show's subreddit has a companion subreddit for posting to before you post to the real one.

I'd love to see an actual bug-free codebase. People who state the codebase in bug-free probably just lack awareness. Even stating we 'have only x bugs' is likely not true.

And can't claude code do all those things but more cheaply?

A neat part of this is it mimics how people get onboarded onto codebases. People usually aren't figuring out how to write tests from scratch; they look at the current best practices for similar functionality in the codebase and start there. And then as they continue to work there they try to influence new best practices.

>Plus, .NET is not that popular either compared to proliferation of python/java/node.js frameworks

>Look at HN job threads, .NET demand is very limited.

I think it just isn't popular for startups or people who read sites like this. Claude says there are 6-8 million .NET developers

And they started renumbering at 1 for 2023-2025 when it went to Disney Plus (to onboard new people and because they don't have rights to older episodes.)

I don't think there is anything wrong with using AI to help make life decisions like this. You just need to know how to use AI, although people on average will misuse it in various ways.

But those people will probably make similar mistakes making decisions in other ways anyway.

I think there might be issues, though, as a lot of people initially trust AI as some oracle instead of using it to help organize their thoughts. And some people will likely never be able to use AI properly.