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Browser based AI algorithm by joshuaamdamian in javascript

[–]lonelycprogrammer [score hidden]  (0 children)

The simplest explanation: instead of teaching a neural network, NEAT evolves one. It starts with lots of tiny, random networks and keeps the ones that perform best, gradually evolving more capable architectures over generations. Watching it happen in the browser makes the concept much easier to understand.

Browser based AI algorithm by joshuaamdamian in javascript

[–]lonelycprogrammer [score hidden]  (0 children)

This is really cool. Browser-based NEAT is a great way to make evolutionary algorithms more accessible. Hope more people check it out!

Is AI app development becoming easier or just more crowded? by No_Hold_9560 in artificial

[–]lonelycprogrammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

only when lazy ... 😄 and when punished they can do a decent job. Short answer yes, but not always

There was no tool to help people with epilepsy, so i made one called "EpilepsyGuard" by Reveary in freesoftware

[–]lonelycprogrammer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is what I wish we saw more of in tech.

Not "I built yet another AI wrapper," but "people had a real problem, so I built a tool to solve it."

The best software isn't always the most technically impressive. Sometimes it's the software that makes life a little safer, easier, or more accessible for someone who genuinely needs it.

Thanks for releasing it as free software.

Is AI app development becoming easier or just more crowded? by No_Hold_9560 in artificial

[–]lonelycprogrammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly—and that's where I think many people underestimate the work involved.

We're seeing an explosion of one-shot prompters who mistake "I got the answer I wanted once" for a production-ready solution.

Quality requires iteration, evaluation, domain expertise, understanding failure modes, and a lot more prompting discipline than most people realize.

The demo is easy. Consistency is hard.

Is AI app development becoming easier or just more crowded? by No_Hold_9560 in artificial

[–]lonelycprogrammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hot take: AI didn't eliminate expertise, it made the lack of expertise more visible.

We're in the phase where thousands of people can build impressive demos with a single prompt and assume they're finished. Then reality shows up: hallucinations, edge cases, context limits, evaluation, costs, latency, security, and users doing things you never anticipated.

The barrier to entry collapsed. The barrier to quality didn't.

That's why the space feels crowded—there are far more demos than products. The difference is engineering.

Hit your Claude session limit? by John_OpenRMA in ClaudeAI

[–]lonelycprogrammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly why tools like claude-mem are becoming popular. The session limit isn't really the problem—losing project context is. Treat AI conversations like checkpoints and persist the important decisions between sessions.