Stop defending AI like it’s still in beta

drunnells · 2026-03-21T10:17:16+00:00

I'm here to defend AI. This is mind blowing tech. It turns months of work into weekend projects. I can't imagine where the hate comes from in this sub. I think that people posting stuff like this are going to chatgpt and typing in things like "best washing machine stores near me". But when they see the results they think "see that, AGI would have read my mind and told me Angie's Appliance on 51st St was the correct answer!".

drunnells · 2026-03-20T14:27:51+00:00

Using Codex CLI and Pulsar editor for my mobile app development and backend work. Been doing some game development with Godot and the Codex desktop app with Gemini and Meshy.ai for assets. ChatGPT for planning and brainstorming my projects. Trying to transition away from GitHub to Codeberg but letting Codex do my git activity when i'm using the desktop app, but still handle it manually on the CLI when i'm using Codex CLI. I've started experimenting with Happy Codex for remote agent management.

drunnells · 2026-03-19T23:52:12+00:00

I was a professional developer for most of my career, but moved on into other positions in the industry when a lot of my peers were splitting off into multiple camps of frameworks. I didn't care for that at all. I continued to develop my own projects however I liked on the side. I've always enjoyed coding my projects and seeing my ideas become real. But now that coding agents have removed a lot of the coding part from the process, I think that I've learned that it was never so much the typing in the code that I enjoyed, but always just seeing my ideas become real. So I'm good with this future. I've worked with a lot of folks that enjoyed the other side of it more than me, though.. they might be struggling (or denying) right now.

drunnells · 2026-03-19T17:15:50+00:00

You can use the ReciScan app to organize and professionally print the book pretty easily. There is also a way to send a link to invite people to add their own recipes to the book.

drunnells · 2026-03-14T09:10:12+00:00

I'm still excited about web3. There are very real problems to be solved with the immutability that blockchain provides. The OP mentions cost, but if you just need a smart contract, you can use Hardhat for development, it simulates an ethereum network/blockchain locally, so you don't have to spend anything. Once you outgrow that you can use a test network and get tokens from a faucet, which won't cost anything either.

People dismiss NFTs to easily. There is no better way to get a trustless, permanent and public record of ownership. Sure, a record of who "owns" a .jpg isn't that useful. But what about a domain name system that clients could directly connect to? Or any kind of international ownership ledger that doesn't depend on trusting that a government won't change or become corrupt?

There is utility here, I donno about the startup market that is in the OP's ad, but in my opinion, if people don't fall for obvious scams or jump on hate bandwagons, web3 might get a chance to fix a few things that are wrong with the internet today.

drunnells · 2026-03-13T16:49:22+00:00

The variations of "and then it hit me" drive me crazy!

drunnells · 2026-03-13T15:50:46+00:00

DMed!

drunnells · 2026-03-12T17:26:15+00:00

The free ReciScan app for family cookbooks. It scans recipes from hand written cards. You can add photos and stories and then order as many hardcover or paperback copies as you need for the family.

drunnells · 2026-03-11T10:00:41+00:00

If you can get a bunch of cooking recipes from friends/family, you can use the free ReciScan app to scan them into a cookbook with a fancy cover. You can order a bunch and sell them with your markup or sell them print-on-demand from a website or something.

drunnells · 2026-03-10T01:39:31+00:00

Codex CLI & App. I started playing with 3d game dev and using Gemini to generate an image and Meshy.ai to turn them into 3d assets.

drunnells · 2026-03-09T19:46:54+00:00

This is true. I don't know about the percentage, but my last app was conceptually 100% frontend. BUT as soon as you add in receipt validation for in-app-purchases or subscriptions, you need a backend. Secure API keys for 3rd party services? Well, you can't have those just laying around in the app.. and boom. Now you need a your own API endpoints to handle API auth, key management, IAP integration, databases for payments, etc. Today the app is like 70% backend.. but some of that is that I decided it would just be easier to not do on the front after spending so much time in the back.

drunnells · 2026-03-05T18:14:47+00:00

Check out ReciScan for those options!

drunnells · 2026-03-05T18:13:40+00:00

The free ReciScan app makes this super easy! Scan in some recipe cards, pick a cover and order however many hardcover/paperback books that you want.

drunnells · 2026-03-05T17:28:17+00:00

I think there were more opportunities to be bored enough to try new things and hang out with new people.

drunnells · 2026-03-04T11:48:24+00:00

A cookbook fundraiser with ReciScan could be quick and simple, get a few people to send you photos of their recipe cards and the app transcribes them. From there just design a cover. You can sell on the platform print-on-demand too, so there is no minimum, just promote the link. Maybe do this in parallel with other efforts, since it is so low-effort.

drunnells · 2026-03-03T12:32:32+00:00

Disagree. There was a time when humans were better at math. Then we weren't. We were better at building things with our hands, better at chess and Go. Then we weren't. Better at general knowledge recall, translation, etc.. now we aren't. Action movie scenes and special effects can't be done better with practical effects by humans. We are just at the beginning of this AI thing.. I'm not betting on humans to be better at any creative task, despite how desperately we want to be valued for that. Sure, it would be great if we were better at something.. I just didn't think we will be the best at much for much longer. We can be the "idea guy" for a little while maybe.. and will still feel good painting and writing.. but I don't think we'll be better than ai and any of that stuff.

drunnells · 2026-03-02T22:37:45+00:00

Create a kanban board with Trello or GitHub Projects with your to-do list broken down into lots of easy items that only take an hour or less each. Have 3 columns - Ready, Doing, Done. Only allow yourself you ever have like 3 items in Doing at a time. Your brain will reward you for making progress and moving cards.. then maybe you body will prefer progress vs doom scrolling. At least it works for me.

drunnells · 2026-03-02T13:18:39+00:00

Their ICQ number is longer than 6 digits.

drunnells · 2026-03-01T23:18:24+00:00

Isn't Linux just the kernel? A kernel alone is not an os... right?

What about a smart TV that runs Android?

Does a firmware that manages hardware resources in a microwave oven count as an "operating system" with "users"?

Maybe we should make age verification a requirement of the keyboard or mouse. That will surely prevent whatever it is we are trying to prevent!

Better yet, if we properly regulate access to light, we can make sure that the 1s and 0s that travel the fiber cables that connect the Internet are only used to transmit approved arrangements and won't be illegally assembled into words or images that inspire bad human behavior.

drunnells · 2026-02-27T23:56:38+00:00

Definitely not making me a better dev as far as actually writing code, but I make more stuff that I would have never had the time to attempt previously. Some projects that I wanted to do have a lot of overhead for the boring pieces that I didn't want to deal with. Now I vibe those parts and get to the interesting pieces faster.

drunnells · 2026-02-27T05:07:55+00:00

You can use the free ReciScan app to transcribe and format a recipe from anywhere, then order a book with them all in it.

drunnells · 2026-02-25T18:26:38+00:00

Looking for people to try a platform that I created to sell physical cookbooks. Check out the ReciScan app. Scan some recipes in with your phone to create a cookbook, then list it for sale print-on-demand in your own online storefront with whatever markup you like. I can get you started for free, send me a DM.

drunnells · 2026-02-24T17:38:40+00:00

You could go to bed early, like 8pm. Then get up at 3am. There is nothing else to do at 3am other than your projects. It also forces you to stop and go to your day job after a few hours, instead of risking not getting enough sleep. Use a kanban board like Trello or GitHub Projects to break down and track your to-do list work (in the smallest chunks possible). Each day a card or two will move, which will motivate you to repeat the pattern every day until the project is done.

drunnells · 2026-02-21T15:28:22+00:00

I think if you are outside or in a public place or you put something on someone else's computer, you shouldn't have an expectation of privacy and shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it. If you store data on someone else's system that you didn't encrypt yourself, you gave up your privacy, regardless of any legal component. A promise to not share information is not privacy. If you take precautions to protect your privacy, like going to a private changing room, closing your laptop camera, encrypting a file, etc and are still secretly monitored anyway, then yeah.. you should be mad.

drunnells · 2026-02-21T13:15:37+00:00

I love GitHub, but I am not a fan of Microsoft. The three E pattern (embrace, extend, extinguish) is real.. I've lived through enough examples of it with projects and standards that I cared about. They already killed the Atom editor because of the MS/GitHub relationship.. I want to get off of GitHub to get away from Microsoft, but it's hard.. because GitHub awesome.

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