July 7th, 2024

How I Use AI

The author shares experiences using AI as a solopreneur, focusing on coding, search, documentation, and writing. They mention tools like GPT-4, Opus 3, Devv.ai, Aider, Exa, and Claude for different tasks. Excited about AI's potential but wary of hype.

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How I Use AI

The article discusses the author's personal experiences with using AI in various aspects of their work as a solopreneur. They primarily focus on four main areas: writing code, search and learning, documentation, and writing. In terms of writing code, the author mentions using different AI models such as GPT-4 and Opus 3 for tasks like pattern-based coding and building UIs. For search and learning, they utilize tools like Devv.ai, Aider, and Exa to enhance their understanding of open-source projects and find alternative tools. In documentation, the author employs AI to automate the creation of instructional documents for server management. Lastly, in writing, the author uses AI, particularly Claude, to assist in crafting emails for sales and support, striking a balance between being too plain or too pushy. The author expresses excitement about the potential of AI technology while remaining cautious of the hype surrounding it. They invite readers to share their own experiences with using AI in various fields.

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By @vertis - 3 months
This is a fairly good selection of capabilities, and I'm finding myself using it in similar ways. Aside from a bunch of the tools in this article like Aider and Cursor I'm also using Dify to ingest my Obsidian notes so that I can ask questions and I've wired this up to lobechat for a generic interface that also allows me to use a broad range of models.

I've got a 96GB M2 Max Macbook so I'm using a lot of local models where possible. The dify setup is all local ollama for both embedding (mxbai-embed-large) and llm (llama3:70b,command-r,gemma2)

I've also been using superwhisper to do a lot of voice typing.

By @GaggiX - 3 months
Even though Anthropic is more focused on providing a service to other companies, I hope they will also provide a voice mode to communicate with their models, I prefer using Claude 3.5 Sonnet compared to GPT-4o.