2026-02-07 04:59 UTC
@rubenerd@bsd.network @exchgr@mastodon.world I was dragged into it by my employer, as I like having health insurance, but it works. Over the holidays I built a bunch of stuff (an absurd amount of stuff), more working code than I've ever written in such a short time in my life. I wanted a weather app without ads, so I built one in a couple of hours. https://wthr.lol/ (And, if you're curious about code quality, it's here: https://github.com/swelljoe/wthr.lol )
I've used it to find bugs in huge projects and build from scratch.
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@swelljoe@mas.to 2026-02-07 05:02
@rubenerd@bsd.network @exchgr@mastodon.world I could have built the weather app in...maybe 3x-4x the time it took? But, I probably wouldn't have, because I didn't want it three or four times more than that amount of effort. I've got two other much larger projects that haven't really launched yet, that have also taken remarkably less time than I would have required doing it myself. I hate being "rah rah AI", but I'm not going to lie on the internet about it when I know it's gotten really good at writing code.