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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I have it create things for me that I would otherwise never have. I wanted an app for dream tracking. They were either pay walled, didn’t have the features I wanted, or both. Ai created what I wanted in a weekend. That’s just one example. I’ve created many single use apps as well.

    If I’m at a takeaway store I take a photo of the board and it makes me an interactive menu that totals the price of what everyone wants and let’s us browse without trying to see the board and get in people’s way.

    I don’t expect anyone else to use these. I don’t expect anyone else to want to use them. Though they’re welcome to. But if I can have a thing create exactly what I want and use it why not?

    “but what if it has a bug and you lose a year of journals”. Well it created me manual timestamped backups as well as automatic timestamped backups to oauth Dropbox in a dedicated folder without the app having access to the rest of my Dropbox. It could crash everything and I would have every single thing safe in 2 places up to the most recent entry. And they’re just text files. I could take them anywhere if AI disappeared and the app broke tomorrow. I could just continue writing in notepad in the worst case until I found something else. But the app looks nicer and does interesting things.

    The alternative to this isn’t me learning to code and spending months creating them. The alternative is them never existing.











  • It really depends what you’re making. I’ve used it to create a ton of incredibly specific to me Firefox add-ons that do exactly what I wanted them to. Same with small web apps, 5 minutes and I have exactly what I wanted on vercel.

    Yes I could have leant how to do it, but I would rather spend that time learning things I actually want to learn like a second language and playing an instrument. And I wouldn’t think anything less of someone that uses llm to translate something so they can spend time coding. Not everyone needs to learn to do literally everything they ever want to use.