Developing projects with AI

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Thanks for sharing the guide! It’s definitely worth a shot on a machine with a GPU. The experience difference between using your CPU and even a 3060 would be huge!

YW, but it's almost a year old now.  I moved from DS to ChatGPT and now I'm with Gemini and Antigravity (thx to @TryNinja for the hookup!).  I think my next step will be a dedicated server for a LLLM.  (Local Large Language Model) so I can finally move away from Google Assistant playing the wrong music at night and ruining my mood.  :/

release date jan 14 means you are going to be busy over christmas lol

Almost done, actually!  I can release a BETA before xmas, but who wants to code when spiced rum and eggnog is socially acceptable?  I think the natural release date is Jan 1, 2026.

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My AI project is complete, and using Antigravity it took me 14 days in total!  The design is gorgeous, there are no bugs, and it is lighting fast.  This was my test project, and now I'm going to start work on a bitcoin browser game.   It's based off an actual fun game I use to play, and it will reward bitcoin as prizes. 

There is a lot of negativity recently around AI, for good reason, so I want to explain how I am doing something positive with AI.

First, I have a background as a coder.  I started in 1983 so I know what I am doing, but the programming languages, best practices and open source tools change so rapidly I can no longer keep up.  I also was never a designer but I rely on design for inspiration, so I had to pay someone to make every image and change them as my ideas changed.   These would probably not be large issues if I didn't have a brain injury, but with my poor typing dexterity in my left hand, I can make typing mistakes constantly, leading to slow development and frustrating troubleshooting.  For any programmer, using AI to write a common subroutine would be no different than maintaining your own script repository, but they would frown upon AI writing original code. 

Programming this extension took me about the same time it would have if I had coded it myself in my younger days (minus the design).  AI is great for "slop", or generating existing code but if you ask it for something new, it can really go wild in its logic.  You must be precise in prompts, plan for future features yourself and make sure AI doesn't remove the novel code you wrote.    I spent hours revising specific features, but I did not code those revisions myself. 

To me, that's where AI turns from a garbage generator to a lifesaver.  You won't see me creating forum content with AI (wearing a sig would make that fraud) but I am using AI to help me write the exact specific code some systems require.  Things I can no longer do myself.