I’ve been working on my personal web framework for years, but using AI has considerably sped up its progress. I still review every line, but the whole development cycle is so much faster with tools like Codex. The latter has also gotten noticably better in matching exactly what I expect as the result over the last few months, which is as frightening as fascinating but here we are - it won’t go away anymore. I even started to try real vibe coding and not even looking at the code anymore for some throwaway tools, and they still work.
Maybe an even more important aspect is how AI enables me to do things I never could have done myself (create graphics/images), or that would have taken me weeks to get into (certain CSS/JS quirks, coding for domains I don’t know anything about, hell it even pulled some tricks in Crystal I couldn’t have come up with).
There is no doubt AI can be a very useful tool, and if you use it right, you can learn a lot from it (instead of just letting it do all the work alone). After all, it has basically all the knowledge the internet contains, and it will happily teach you anything you ask it for!
So what I’m currently “cooking” in my spare time is a little web game I’ve wanted to make for some years: https://rope.click. Using my own framework of course, and also meant as some kind of stress test for it to optimize performance bottlenecks. I could never have created those images myself, so this project really only exists because of AI - and I’m having the fun of my life building it.