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sung@speedystride.com
I like having a HUD to display speed and warnings like a car merging in front of me while I'm using cruise control. I am not a fan of large screens where I have to take my eyes off the road to control (ex. Tesla).
AI tools for non technical users that can work on browsers and mobile app will be super powerful. I think MCPs are currently the best way to reach this audience.
I think he's talking about CSS
Good question. I left my job to start something on my own so an AI help is really nice. Should note that AI does make many boneheaded mistakes, and I have to solve some of the harder problems on my own.
I used Claude Code to write a relatively complicated watchOS app. I know how to program (FAANG L5), but didn't really know Swift. I achieved a pretty good result for about $600, while a contractor would've cost much more.
I've found that writing a very simple DSL that resembles human speech and an interpreter that can output JSON is very effective.
Human
4x1200 with 30 second rest
AI DSL output
Repeat 4 times:
- Run 1200 meters
- Rest 30 seconds
I hand wrote a recursive descent parser in Python to process DSL. Human speech to DSL is pretty effective with a simple prompt and some examples.
I created a tool that can program Garmin & Apple Watches for interval training based on what I wrote above.
Looking for beta testers- please give it a try :)
At this point, it'd be easier to give your users access to DBeaver or Bigquery directly. Also limiting their access to certain views with prepared data to avoid expensive queries.
For a UI based SQL tool I've used Looker few years ago and thought it was ok. I wonder how much AI tooling Google added since then to help with LookML generation. There are also other open source tools like mathesar (https://github.com/mathesar-foundation/mathesar) which look promising.
Seems like Zyn is better for you and others.
I've been a fan of Django templates and HTMX. I like how I can get interactivity without too much complexity. I do have specific parts of my website that rely on more complex tools, such as Codemirror. Even then, templates work well enough for me, so I haven't found a compelling enough reason to adopt more JS for my website.