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by csomar 641 days ago
So you can give us a couple examples of apps you built with AI that are actually useful?
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Many services that power https://videotap.com/ have recently been rewritten with the help of AI.

Recently I used Cody to rebuild the entire video processing pipeline and made it much more efficient and scalable, and I actually learned a ton about ffmpeg by pair programming with the AI. Now I'm building additional features into this app, mostly w/ just iterative prompting or chat-oriented programming to replace 3rd party services that are still in this pipeline and it's been a blast.

I've also used AI tools to really brush up on frameworks, like Laravel, that I haven't touched in a while, and it's been a great experience. Also started building a game w/ Godot and found AI super helpful there in walking me step by step. So for me it's been great.

Since gpt came out I have built tons of throwaway apps,

Throw away apps are the easiest to make. No scaling, no bug fixing, no long term maintenance considerations, no consequences for poor architecture, no need to consider data models, you just write some shit. Bravo.