I've been working on a side project that I started in 2020. If I wanted to implement a new feature it was:
- Wait for regular work hours to wrap up around 5 or 6 PM
- Get dinner and rest / relax until around 8 or 9 PM
- Open up the editor, think about the problem, Google things, read stack overflow which gets it 95% of the way there, Google more, dig deeper into the docs finally find what I needed
- Write a function, make some progress, run into another roadblock, repeat previous point
- Look up and it's now 1AM. I should write tests for this, but I'll add that to the backlog
- Backlog only ever grows
Now with AI I describe what I want, it does the grunt work likely cleaner than I ever could, adds tests and warns me about potential edge cases.
I don't know about 10x, but I'm releasing new features that my client cares about faster and I have more time to myself.
All of the negativity around AI writing code sounds like people who would say "You can't trust the compiler, you need to write the machine code yourself"
Will AI fuck up? Yes
But I'm the human in the chair guiding it, and learning myself how better to prompt it to keep it from those fuck ups with every iteration.
I just sent my single client a monthly subscription link via stripe.
$875 a month for service and support on a custom built loyalty platform.
Make about $25K up front to build it, then followed up with maybe another $20K worth of various features over the last ~5 years
Starting this month $875 a month to keep supporting them and helping grow his vision (credit management for events...ie: get a nfc wrist band at a party as part of an all inclusive package, has $xxx.xx worth of credit, tap your wrist band to pay)
i'm also starting to try to bridge this out as a more generic platform and look for new clients.
$875 a month in the USA is a nice bit of extra cash. Server costs are coming in around $300 because I haven't optimized aws and there are some legacy systems I'm supporting(VPC costs are killing me) but it'll be nice to have some extra cash to pay off some debt and maybe buy some things to fuel new hobbies.
I'm reading through the book the blog mentions right now and building a small LLM. I'm only on chapter 2, but so far it's helped clarify a lot of things about LLMs and break it down into small steps. Highly recommend Building a large language model from scratch
I've been working on a side project that I started in 2020. If I wanted to implement a new feature it was: - Wait for regular work hours to wrap up around 5 or 6 PM - Get dinner and rest / relax until around 8 or 9 PM - Open up the editor, think about the problem, Google things, read stack overflow which gets it 95% of the way there, Google more, dig deeper into the docs finally find what I needed - Write a function, make some progress, run into another roadblock, repeat previous point - Look up and it's now 1AM. I should write tests for this, but I'll add that to the backlog - Backlog only ever grows
Now with AI I describe what I want, it does the grunt work likely cleaner than I ever could, adds tests and warns me about potential edge cases.
I don't know about 10x, but I'm releasing new features that my client cares about faster and I have more time to myself.
All of the negativity around AI writing code sounds like people who would say "You can't trust the compiler, you need to write the machine code yourself"
Will AI fuck up? Yes But I'm the human in the chair guiding it, and learning myself how better to prompt it to keep it from those fuck ups with every iteration.