Gonza Nardini

Building an AI-powered programming tool: and many more fun tools

[Gonza Nardini @gonza_nardini]

@JackEllis @yongfook You can use AI as a fast typist. Think about the problem and how to solve it and give precise instructions and create good system prompts that describe the codebase.
The code it writes will be easily reviewable (because you now what you're looking for!)

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@yongfook Do you still use AI in non-vivecoding ways? Like thinking about the task and giving precise instructions on how to build something.

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@normposter Noone can have them. Ideally Israel (and everyone else) would get rid of their nukes, more countries getting access to them just makes the world more unsafe.

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@agapekta @jackfriks @Shpigford That makes sense, but that's for reading, not for posting. Why would the limit apply to posting content to the app?

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@jgreen_us @jackfriks @Shpigford Wouldn't allowing tools that create more content in the app help with that?

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@dagorenouf You don’t have to use opus, it’s still very much free. Opus doesn’t even give you that much of an advantage

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@GergelyOrosz A human (or many) will have the ideas and insights, AI will write the code.

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@DavidSHolz Progress is just too exponential to think of something 75 years from now. The world is going to change so radically we won't even recognize it. I'm not sure people in the 1900s thought that was likely to happen at this scale.

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@burkov You don't need to pass the entire codebase to be effective, that's a complete waste of money.

Eventually when prices go down it might make sense but today 200k tokens is more than enough, you need a better context management tool

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@shl the payment processor will be happy too

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@forgebitz lmao i feel the same, great description.

They do get better over time though, but human in the loop is still very obviously needed

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@Angaisb_ @brumoema That's true for the past, not necessarily the future

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@GergelyOrosz AI is great at the first 80%

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@thepanta82 @iannuttall Yeah, same, not the way I would have thought

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@aidenybai There are even more than that but yeah, hopefully it will standarize into one eventually

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@pvncher Yeah, I think the complexity of the task makes a big difference on the kind of workflow to use to solve it.

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I've been stuck for a while in a weird state where I want to build startups but I don't do marketing.

Honestly, as an engineer, building is really fun but I had a mental block or something that didn't allow me to just do marketing.

Something clicked for me recently and I've started doing stuff. I cold DMed 40 potential Pathways clients on ig (where they mostly are) and onboarded 5 of them to the app already. I posted a few stories/reels, I turned on Google Ads, focused on onboarding and had calls with some of them to introduce them to Pathways.

It actually feels kind of fun? Like a challenge in a very different way that I'm used to.

Anyways, it's only been a week but it feels liberating in a way to be focusing on this instead of coding, my focus now is being able to stay consistent at this for a long time to make the marketing efforts compound.

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@nicbarkeragain I think this is the importance of good docs. If the docs are good enough, the LLM will just read them and answer based on that.

If docs are lacking then the quality for LLM responses will suffer.

[Gonza Nardini @gonza_nardini]

The fun part to me is thinking about how to solve the problem, not the actual typing.

The way I like to use AI is think about the problem and how to solve it and write a very detailed task description, with details on how to solve it. Then let AI do the typing.

I'm doing a lot more and it's really fun!