Sorry about that, wasn't aware that this was an issue for people in Vietnam. If you want, you can direct email me at contact[at]openaltfinder[dot]com, or you can reply here with the project you wanted to submit.
I’m currently doing a project with someone who only uses LLMs, and it’s exhausting and mentally draining.
Whenever I give feedback on something, the answer is just “let me tell Claude”. The person has no understanding of how everything works, and most of the code reflects that.
The other day he hardcoded in a demo mode, simply because he didn’t even know how to set up a local environment and set environment variables. I’m confused as to why Claude didn’t even knew this, but it might just be the prompting.
I limit LLM usage myself, and if I do use it, I try to use it on extremely specific tasks. It’s the only way it works for me.
I honestly don’t understand how all these companies are getting away with generating AI code. Even in a small project I quickly fall behind on my understanding of the project.
I wrote this little web app over the weekend, the idea was to make you think about your next purchase by introducing a 48 hour countdown. In 48 hours you come back and decide if you really need this product, or if it was just an impulse buy.
I would love to experience this, but I'm only at the level were I occasionally open ChatGPT or Claude, asked it a question, and then get frustrated because it can't even give me a straight answer, or makes incorrect assumptions.
I can't even imagine having multiple agents write code that somehow works.
There's obviously very valid security concerns sometimes. We didn't use npm audit, but an external tool. And often it would highlight things like "use https", and when looking at which line, it was just a comment that referred to an external link.
Obviously a non-issue, but you still had to verify, and document everything. Best practice would be that we ran this scan on every commit, but the scan took about 15-20 minutes. It just ended up being something that was part of our release process, with the obvious danger of breaking our application right before release.
All in all, it stopped me from relying on third party modules, and tried to use as much vanilla code as possible.
Reminds me of my time at a global bank. After many security incidents, they finally decided to step up their game, and implemented multiple security scans.
For any project using NPM, it was an absolute nightmare. Dependencies 3 or 4 levels deep would get flagged, and there wouldn't be a way to resolve them. The security teams didn't care, and multiple projects were left stranded. Since resolving those issues would mean having to contribute to open source, which we weren't allowed to do.
On the other hand, because we had specific security teams doing the scanning and assessing the results, you weren't allowed to question them, because they could just block your entire project. So developers were extremely unhappy with them, and what ended up happening is that developers just did what the security teams asked, without questioning. Which to me, let to more security concerns, because we were just pulling in libraries without knowing what had changed.
Sadly, the few devs who stopped relying on third party dependencies all left, because most of their work took longer (since they were implementing stuff that third parties usually do). Business teams took notice and questioned why everything was taking longer.
The way that users work with Fastmail, is that each user has a single email address, the rest just acts as aliases to that address. So when receiving works, sending always happens with the main address.
For small projects, I don’t necessarily want to reply with my main address, hence why I want to have it seperated.
Also another happy Migadu user, on their micro plan. I mainly use it for small projects, it’s great because I pay a flat $19 fee for unlimited domains. I’m happy to upgrade once a project requires it.
For my personal domain email, I use Fastmail, but that comes in at $50 yearly. Not something I can justify when just playing around with an idea.
I really love reading things like this, on the other hand I also feel very demotivated seeing how difficult it is to earn money through a side project.
I recently did a project that used the create-react-app CLI, and felt a bit anxious. I know the setup that create-react-app creates, but I still prefer to write this all myself.
Most, if not every project I do, I start from scratch, and build the pipeline when I have a need for it. It also forces me to understand the way my app will be build.
I've met a lot of developers who only use these pre-build setups, or only use bootstrapped templates that they don't even know what they do, and personally, that scares me.
I recently threw my 2010-2011 15" MacBook Pro out of the door, I actually couldn't believe how chunky and heavy it was, it was super weird to hold it. I actually still worked, although a bit slow, and the battery would only last for about 30 minutes, but still worked.