How you used AI in 2024?

2024 seemed to be all about AI—everywhere you looked, it was AI this and AI that. But once we cut through the marketing hype, what was actually useful to you?

I'm curious to hear from the community:

What AI use cases did you integrate into your life in 2024?
Which products or tools did you find yourself relying on the most?
To make it more structured, let’s divide this into two broad categories:

Personal Life: Did AI help you with daily tasks, hobbies, or self-improvement?

Professional Life: Were there any tools or workflows that transformed how you work or made a significant impact on productivity?

Feel free to share both what worked and what didn’t for you, and everything in between. Let’s build a collective insight into how AI has shaped our lives this past year!

My Experience with AI in 2024:

Personal:

1. I used Arc Search by Arc Browser a lot as a replacement for Google Search when I wanted to find or learn something.

2. I used Ollama + Mixtral + Obsidian for journaling, marketing write-ups, and more. The Ollama Plugin enabled me to do AI-powered writing even offline.

3. I also used ChatGPT for various purposes, such as gardening, cooking, travel planning (along with Arc Search), interior design ideas, diet, and exercise planning.

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Work:

1. ChatGPT is at the top of the list. While I used it less for handling complex bugs (I often resorted to forums and GitHub for those), it was very helpful for research and planning new projects.

2. Copilot has been great for improving programming speed. With new features and better models being released, I’m excited to explore them further. Overall, it’s an excellent autocomplete tool.

3. Ollama + Mixtral + Obsidian were also useful for work journaling.

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I’m sure I’ve missed a lot, which is why I’m curious: How have you incorporated AI into your life in 2024?

Looking forward to hearing your experiences! 😊

Comments

[Oscar]

I almost never use AI, but the one of the two times I did this year was for converting a bunch of environment variables to docker compose variables, like so:

CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE="Strict"
SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE="Strict"
CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY=False

to

- CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE=${CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE}
- SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE=${SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE}
- CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY=${CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY}

... plus about 30 more of these. Saved me about 15 minutes!

[Hossein Yazdi]

I use Phind (it's free) for pair programming, and it's amazing!