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semiquaveryesterday at 9:04 PM5 repliesview on HN

I feel pretty productive myself with AI but this list isn’t beating the rap that AI boosters mostly use AI to do useless stuff focused on pretending to improve productivity or projects that make it easier to use AI.


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stavrosyesterday at 9:10 PM

Here's what I made:

* https://www.stavros.io/posts/i-made-a-voice-note-taker/ - A voice note recorder.

* https://github.com/skorokithakis/stavrobot - My secure AI personal assistant that's made my life admin massively easier.

* https://github.com/skorokithakis/macropad - A macropad.

* https://github.com/skorokithakis/sleight-of-hand - A clock that ticks seconds irregularly but is accurate for minutes.

* https://pine.town - A whimsical little massively multiplayer drawing town.

* https://encyclopedai.stavros.io - A fictional encyclopedia.

* https://justone.stavros.io - A web implementation of the board game Just One.

* https://www.themakery.cc - The website and newsletter for my maker community.

* https://theboard.stavros.io - A feature board that implements itself.

* https://github.com/skorokithakis/dracula - A blood test viewer.

* https://github.com/skorokithakis/support-email-bot - An email bot to answer common support queries for my users.

Maybe some of these will beat the rap.

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shepherdjerredyesterday at 9:21 PM

That's a fair criticism of my personal projects. Maybe 3-4 of those could potentially see usefulness outside of myself.

At work, I would say I've done plenty of "useful" things with AI, but that's hard to show off given that I work on an internal application.

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lukanyesterday at 9:53 PM

"Or projects that make it easier to use AI"

I get the sentiment, but this is natural with a groundbraking new technology. We are still in the process of figuring out how to best apply generative LLM's in a productive way. Lots of people tinker and share their results. Most is surely hype and will get thrown away and forgotten soon, but some is solid. And I am glad for it as I did not take part in that but now enjoy the results as the agents have become really good now.

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SunshineTheCatyesterday at 9:14 PM

I've actually felt the same way about some (not all) but some "productivity" hacks I've seen people post online with their OpenClaw setups.

I chuckle when I see some of them because you could achieve the same (or often faster) result by jotting a note onto a notecard and sticking it in your pocket.

Most of the other automations running don't really seem to serve any real purpose at all.

But hey, if it's fun, have at it.

gopher_spaceyesterday at 9:49 PM

I mean I’m using it to deconstruct and reinvent my development process from the ground up, but it’s so easy to do this now and so customized for my specific needs that the idea of posting about it never crossed my mind.