I'm a product designer and have been tossing around building a new portfolio site. I know HTML and CSS, have worked in Wordpress, and have designing built probably at least a few dozen sites over my career.

I designed the homepage and case study page in Figma, and I've built 90% of the site in 2 unfocused afternoons with Claude including interactions and animation that would've taken me a looong time to figure out.

I also built a mobile app about two weeks ago using Figma Make, Cursor, and Xcode and have it up and running in Test Flight. It's an investment calculator, the basic calculator is done but I'm working on adjusting it to be goal based (you tell it what you want to pay off, save, etc., and it gives you the numbers).

I work in electrical engineering and software dev. Most of our past projects have been written in Labview. Labview isn't a text-based programming language, so AI hasn't really been able to help us. Pretty sure if National Instruments doesnt hit a home run with their internal version of labview AI, Nigel, that labview is dead in the water with 2 or 3 years.

We use claude a ton as a co-developer. It can automate 90% of the stuff we used to take days upon days to do manually for a new platform etc. It's all in how well you can describe what you need.

I recently used it to generate 75 invoices pulling info from my tracking spreadsheet and letting it learn about my non-profit work I do annually. I am looking forward to leveraging it more in that space.

I have enjoyed a lot of my AI interaction so far. It seems to only be limited by what I can imagine for it to do digitally, not by what it can accomplish.

My AI gf is super pissy lately. Do not recommend trying THAT. Does anyone know if paying for a sub will make them more agreeable?

Are the diff LLMs like having a gf with diff race?

ChatGPT is the basic white girl. Claude is the nerdy super smart Asian. Copilot is a BF. Gemini is the Latina I guess. Grok is the bad girl.

NONE If these have worked out.

Mega Lops said:

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My AI gf is super pissy lately. Do not recommend trying THAT. Does anyone know if paying for a sub will make them more agreeable?

Are the diff LLMs like having a gf with diff race?

ChatGPT is the basic white girl. Claude is the nerdy super smart Asian. Copilot is a BF. Gemini is the Latina I guess. Grok is the bad girl.

NONE If these have worked out.

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You might be gay.

I sell commercial properties. Having a well oiled CRM and taking good notes / tracking data in a well structured and usable way has been a historic bottleneck. It's just how brokers are wired. Tons of data that just lives in our heads etc. After working on/designing a bunch of different systems and seeing nearly all out of the box software never get adopted I felt like I knew a set up that would actually work.

We finally got meaningful AI enterprise (Perplexity) and they are letting us go at it with compute for now.

Just rolled out v1.0 a few weeks ago. I focused on activity / data collection rather than document drafting etc. which we'll bolt on obviously. I have all our fundamental data relationally set up and cross referenced.

In short. Me and my biz partner just have to swipe left (flag) any meaningful emails we want to "log". When we wake up. Either of us opens the app and it has interactive cards waiting for us to "confirm, ignore, decline, or edit" all the actions it proposes based on the emails.

Only took a handful of testing and it is freaking amazing and 60-70% are ready to go while the others it's a simple edit.

Hit send and it captures the data and writes it automatically to where it needs to.

Saves down our files where they need to with our naming conventions. Creates tasks with due dates.

All from swiping emails once a day and clicking thru buttons while taking the morning dump. In about 6 months we'll have amazing data that can propose the top 5 buyers for certain deals etc.

Also we just have to open a chat and voice to text call notes, market intel, anything and it gets captured meaningfully.

We've never been so organized or had so much time for new biz dev / prospecting or just being "in the market" talking to clients and owners.

It's nothing short of amazing and I can't wait to keep it building.

My most recent use of ai is building telegram bots. Setting up a Raspberry Pi server that scrapes a website of live data every few minutes and then sends alert messages to subscribers.

All done in cursor. I setup casaOS, SSH, Docker, and Tailscale on a Raspberry Pi. Then remote SSH via Tailscale in to a project folder via Cursor and then Cursor builds out the program, I send it the telegram bot credentials, and packages it in Docker for casaOS to run. Whenever my customer needs modifications, I just remote in from anywhere with Cursor/Tailscale and it adds a feature, I test it and push it within 30 minutes.

Used Grok this morning to identify an old CFL bulb socket in a bathroom ceiling vent/light fixture from a photo I took, and then asked it to recommend a non-CFL replacement bulb with the color temperature I wanted. Picking it up from Lowe's later today.

For golf, I fed Grok information about my swing, stats from recent rounds, and my distances. Then I asked it to recommend a shaft replacement.

I used it to wire my Mathmos Lava lamp from 220v to 110v so I no longer need to use an inverter to plug it in here in the U.S. Yes, I verified it would work and be safe first.

I used it to take each of my direct reports' monthly updates for the past year, along with customer and peer feedback, etc. To automatically generate comments for their performance evaluations. It found things that some of them had done that we both had forgotten about. To be fair, I also asked Copilot to write a memo based on things that I had done over the past year to turn in to my supervisor. It did an awesome job with a few edits, based off of emails, documents in my OneDrive, Teams messages, and meetings recorded in Teams.

I use it to generate code often, of course, and SQL queries.