Don’t let the anti-AI bullshit get you down. You built something that worked for you, it isn’t the basis of national security for everyone and you wanted to share it. And you opensourced it so if I want to bolt on an IRC downloader or something, it’s easy.
I appreciates you.
pogmommy@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Debatable
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Just can’t resist eh.
I have an old seed drill and the ECU smoked itself last fall. $6000-8000 if I can find a used one and then wait for it to show up, hopefully it works.
Pulled out Hermes on GPT5.5, spent the weekend building a DIY unit that monitors shaft and airspeeds, controls clutches, and gives me a browser page that I can watch all that stuff. I’m currently sitting in the tractor and waiting for it to build me a new feature I didn’t have on the old monitor where I can manually enter acres done.
It would have taken me months to build this and I’d have done nothing but work on that. Now I can tweak this while I work, or even access it remotely and change things if someone else is using it.
People can get on their high horse all they want, it cost me almost nothing to build something I can modify as I wish now. AI has democratized software. Hate it all you want, it works.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
lol
n2024@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is the perfect example, honestly. Same spirit: a real problem, solved fast with the tool in hand. Hope the acres-done feature compiles before you finish the field 😄
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
What’s cool is that I can watch it build the feature in another page (actually, I have a ttyd session in the app so I can bring up a terminal on the Pi to work with Hermes or Opencode) and it will run pytests against a test instance of the service, then swap it into the production files and restart the service. I get about 2 seconds of disconnect where the cards don’t update, and then I refresh the browser and it’s live. If I don’t like it, I can tell it to revert to the earlier commit or change things. It’s magical.
Then I blew a hydraulic hose and went to bed. AI can’t help me with that.
If you mean that everyone can now build something that most likely will fall apart in the future, where nobody knows what’s actually inside as nobody reads it, where you might get hit with copyright claims because you stole code willy-nilly (you can’t hide behind the AI, you did it), that is full of security issues as well as structural nonsense and you may never know if the LLM decides to delete everything star anew while blasting a 6000€ hole in your pocket doing do…
…well then yes, it “democratized” something.
non_burglar@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
That project of yours is great. But that isn’t why ppl object to ai.
The problem with ai is the massively ramped number of unnecessary undisclosed issues with software that normally take human review, sometimes in multiple rounds.
AI only democratized the coding. All the rest of the cost of making software is absorbed by by nothing. No one is getting code parsed, or human reviewed before putting it out in the wild.
So it’s awesome to make stuff for yourself, but it’s not appropriate to share with others without that code review.
B0rax@feddit.org 1 day ago
Nice project!
The 'ol Jethro Tull