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Props for your work on these but they’re toys mate. These are things you built for yourself that other people happened to find useful. That’s great! I’m not shitting on that, but it doesn’t really convince me that AI coding really is this amazing productivity booster in all cases. It’s good for small greenfield projects, I’ll admit that.


Six useful small greenfield projects in two weeks is pretty good, especially when they weren't my primary focus for those two weeks.

I wouldn't call these toys either. If you want toys take a look at most of https://tools.simonwillison.net/ - these six are all real projects on GitHub with tests and documentation and release notes.




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