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 use...
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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:
to
... plus about 30 more of these. Saved me about 15 minutes!
😂
I've been using AI for nearly every aspect of my workflow and products:
Even amusement 😊 here's a recent voice AI implementation I shared on my blog.
Dope, you seem like a power users.
Which AIs you used for each of these use cases ?
Ollama with "PHI3-mini", "granite3-dense:8b", "mixtral" and a bunch of other small models. Paid models, I use OpenAI models like text-embedding-3-large, Whisper, TTS, GPT4o (and mini), etc...
For some coding tasks, I use Anthropic's API with Sonnet or Tabnine.
Recently, also using DeepSeek, and for some voice tasks, I use AssemblyAI.
Woah multiple models.
Got to know a lot of new ones.
You use them on cloud or locally?
Tabnine is probably the only local one, the rest are used in production. In the case of Ollama models that's a GPU server, I am running on prod, rest are just APIs to OpenAI/DeepSeek/Anthropic.
Often you'll find you need more than one model, the smaller models can perform niche tasks quickly and the bigger ones can do more complex tasks.
Making my poor code look good honestly
😄 How?
Well just to make it a bit fast, like a bit milisecond better, at least i can rely on ai for taking out the trash btw your from india 🇮🇳 (me too)
Hahaha quite common use case I would say.
Oh that’s great. Which part and how long you been a developer?
Well not certified, since I am still a teen, started coding stuff at 12, also had to cover up schooling stuff too
Who do you think wrote all of my websites?
...chatgpt
Just kidding! However, we use AI, but remember that in about 30 years, AI will probably replace all of us on this forum!
Not really 😅 You will find here
I'm a bit of a grump in terms of AI usage, but of course it's seeped into my life slowly.
With work especially I am pretty hard opposed to AI taking over my creative processes, even just simple coding, because I feel like if the commit has my name on it, I better have an absolute grip on the code. Lately I've experimented with letting AI fill in boilerplate-y code, such as generating Laravel models from migration files I've designed. Tabnine does this pretty well, but what I found was that due to my issues with handing over control, I spent the same time checking that I would have spent writing.
Outside of work I use Perplexity for web searches, the fact that it not only gives me an explanation but also cites sources is one of the biggest reasons I've grown to like it. It's the same reason why I use Arc Search (and sometimes Perplexity) on my phone as well.
I don't let AI into my files (not explicitly, anyway..) nor do I give it any kind of info about my finances, that seems way too far into privacy invasion. I also detest that people enthusiastically give all sorts of AI-powered apps or sites their info, history, even voice and face, with little to no regard about their own privacy.
Sorry for the mile-long reply, thanks for reading! :)
Oh that's a new one. What you liked the most about it ?
Well, it's ad-free, doesn't require registration and most importantly, it's specifically designed to handle programming needs.
Does it run locally? And what about data privacy?