WTF I love AI now
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I have "coded" in 17 years. A few months ago I made an program on my computer using ChatGPT that does exactly what I want it to do and it saves me hours and performs an actual business function for me. It is incredible in the right hands.
I've been working through computer projects that I've been putting off for close to a decade in some cases because I only have so much time in a day now thanks to locally hosted AI. You can get a shocking amount of work done with a single 3090 and Qwen 3.6 27B + Hermes Agent.
There is a big point to the right hands, and I think those who have done programming (I like that word better than coding, I don't think I ever said I was coding for the first 20 years), have a better shot at it. I've seen the output of those without who have played with it, and it's a bit crude at best.
I use it for all sorts of stuff. Business timesavers being a big one. I do a lot of work with sets of data, but not often similar enough that I can use the same methods over and over. In the past it would have been something: "I can spend 8 hours writing a script to do this one-time logic on this data, or I can spend 4 hours manually manipulating it in Excel". AI turns that 8 hours into 1 hour, and it doesn't demand perfect optimization, it just needs to work once or twice.
Although, it's gotten good enough in the last few months if you're talking "full stack" (also hate that term) web development, the bread and butter of Indians, it's approaching production quality.
I have repetitive tasks I have to do each month regarding payroll and it used to take me a full day to do. Now maybe 1-2 hours.
I already had the logic down for each report but AI helped me convert that mental logic into a reusable script. No joke, in some cases it turned the task itself for a single report from an hour to three minutes or less.
It became a matter of drag and drop of a report, select which prompt to run, and give it twenty seconds. Even that wasn't fully optimized. I suppose I could have made it so I can upload a dozen reports at a time and have it figure out which is which, and run the appropriate prompts and further sped up the process from 1-2 hours to 30 minutes. And this is each month.
I still consider ways to make it even faster. It's just diminishing returns. Every improvement will take an hour or two to revise the code, for smaller time savings. But over a year it would absolutely be a time saver to do.
I imagine in a few years it'll go from saving me hours per month to saving me two whole work weeks per year.
"In the right hands" is the key here. Plenty of lazy-ass coders will use it to make slop, which they then will spend hundreds of hours "fixing" to justify their jobs.
Anyhow, it's still in its infancy. There's a long road ahead.