> AI Discussion

I've been building with AI and integrating it pretty deeply into my day to day workflow and am wondering about the sort of future lies ahead for just software in general.

My Take on Things

As a graduate of UT in the winter of 2022, I think I'm probably one of the last groups of students that graduated pre ai. Not saying this makes me above or below anyone else but it makes me really wonder how the future of the curriculum will change. With ai I would say a big chunk of the tedium has been taken out of the coding process which opens much more time and energy for the bigger things like coming up with solutions to tricky problems.

AI has been a huge help in helping with implementation and has sped things up significantly. I remember in the past, building authentication and billing integrations was such a huge pain that we flat out avoided it as much as we could. I rememeber my business partner would get discouraged even at any mention of auth because it would mean such an extended delay. AI has been a huge help and essentially making me able to develop much much faster than before.

In Context of Harloop

So with respect to Harloop, my most recent projet/business, I think AI is sort of a double edged blade. Part of Harloop is programmatically generating a bunch of videos (Not AI Diffusion Generation) and the repo is essentially huge. Every video produced is essentially a composition of javascript component as a scene that is then rendered. It works pretty well but PRs easily reach multiple 100k line changes. Really only another LLM will be able to every work on this video generation repo which is kinda crazy.

Closing Thoughts

Shorter blog this time without any direction really. Just been a few years working with AI and just wanted to track my thoughts. Interested to see how things will change as it improves. As of today I use mostly Claude, specifically Fable 5.1 and Opus 5 with xhigh effort.