I'm getting suboptimal results when vibe-coding CSS animations and transitions. Can talented open-source developers please rise up to the occasion and work for free to help develop better training data for all of us. Cheers!
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When I worked as an instructor at a coding bootcamp conducted at a co-working space back in 2017, I hoped my students would gain expertise in Python and Django.
Instead, they learned foosball trick shots, copying code off the Internet, taking way too many coffee breaks, going on PubG / Fortnite quests and flirting with each other.
Don't get me wrong, I love the web, and enjoy web development. But building your nth web app from scratch that has no users yet is mostly grunt work, apart from that one piece of secret sauce that's unique to your app.
I did not pay much attention to the AI wave for a while, even after the ChatGPT moment.
But it all changed a few months ago when I vibe coded a couple of web pages on Lovable and the generated UI looked much better than what I could have developed on my own. I got excited about learning how GenAI applications work under the hood and started exploring basic Machine Learning concepts as well.
However, I believe using creators' data without their permission is unethical. At the same time, as a software developer, I don't want to be left behind and not rely on AI tools. I'm sure most knowledge workers are facing this ethical dilemma.
After watching an interview with Karen Hao about her book, The empire of AI, the moral conundrum feels more real.
This classic Green Day song sums up my "Too much dopamine, too little oxytocin" life.
I'm evaluating pyinfra in order to deploy TechTrack, my Hacker News client app.
pyinfra's documentation is still sparse, so I'm using DeepWiki, yet another AI tool, to get an overview of how the codebase is structured and what each major component does. DeepWiki looks very promising and provides an easy ramp when jumping into new codebases.
Check out both pyinfra and DeepWiki and tell me what you think!
Now listening to Ray of Light by Madonna
4 years of Telecommunication Engineering from 2006 to 2010 was like: This semester, here are a bunch of subjects on how to transmit a piece of information reliably from one device to another over the Internet or mobile network.
Engineering Electromagnetics, Satellite Communication, Signals, Fourier Transforms, Wireless Communication, Fiber Optic Communication, Microwaves and Antennas, Computer Networking Part 1, Computer Networking Part 2 and so on.
After graduating, when I was about to get into web dev, I saw the buzzword "Ajax" in offline IT coaching institutes' banners during my commute everyday. So I allocated one month to "learn Ajax" without knowing what it meant.
2 weeks into learning JavaScript and web dev in early 2012, I read:
"Here’s a single function call to transmit data from the browser to the server without having to reload the page":
$.ajax('http://example.com', {some: 'data'}, {success: function() {console.log('yes'})
Glad to know I'm not the only one interested in the music between scene transitions in Friends. Apparently, there's a name for it - Stinger