Honestly, LLMs have been quite good at helping me procrastinate less on my pet projects.
It took me a weekend to build a little esp8266 gadget that automatically turns off my parents' water heater after a fixed time. They saw a dip in our power bill thanks to that. I did not want the complexity of a full blown home assistant setup there. And the Philips Wiz socket did not support setting timers/simple automations.I wanted to test out micropython too for this instead of the usual C++/Arduino/etc..
I started on a saturday and went from 0 to 90 that single day. The product I had after that day was mostly complete but it was crashing at odd times. I spent another day to get to the root cause of the issue - caused by the LLM mixing up async and sync functions. One prompt to the LLM and the problem is gone. The product has been running flawlessly since then - for months.
Every weekend I spent with Antigravity - I was able to push out something totally usable. Water Heater monitor, configurations for the custom Tuya devices I installed in my home, a chrome extension I wanted to use at work.
I am honestly impressed at the pace at which this whole thing improved too. Just 2 years ago - it was a totally useless tool that couldn't even match the speed or accuracy of my text editor snippets.
It took me a weekend to build a little esp8266 gadget that automatically turns off my parents' water heater after a fixed time. They saw a dip in our power bill thanks to that. I did not want the complexity of a full blown home assistant setup there. And the Philips Wiz socket did not support setting timers/simple automations.I wanted to test out micropython too for this instead of the usual C++/Arduino/etc..
I started on a saturday and went from 0 to 90 that single day. The product I had after that day was mostly complete but it was crashing at odd times. I spent another day to get to the root cause of the issue - caused by the LLM mixing up async and sync functions. One prompt to the LLM and the problem is gone. The product has been running flawlessly since then - for months.
Every weekend I spent with Antigravity - I was able to push out something totally usable. Water Heater monitor, configurations for the custom Tuya devices I installed in my home, a chrome extension I wanted to use at work.
I am honestly impressed at the pace at which this whole thing improved too. Just 2 years ago - it was a totally useless tool that couldn't even match the speed or accuracy of my text editor snippets.