Hey, I am sure some of you who’ve been around here over the past decade may recognize me (I am known as Joshie/JoshiesWorld). I am still around (registered here in 2007!) and doing well. I hope you’re all doing well, too! Now, on to the subject: does using AI improve your work? If so, how? Whether it’s building or designing a website, writing an article or blog post, or producing media like videos and images, I’ve noticed that AI has drastically improved my work, to the point where I bring in 2x or even 3x more readers/viewers than usual (I am a blogger and a journalist). However, even though they help, they don’t have my personality; it’s like they decide what my personality is, and I don’t like that. Other than that, I avoid using them when writing an article to keep my personality intact, but they are very helpful for my SEO work. I use AI only for SEO and maybe a few image generations if I am in a rush. They are also great at advising and give me plenty of information I may need. But when it comes to writing an article or a review article, I try to avoid them because I prefer to show my personality rather than sound like a robot. What about you? Does AI help you in your field? How do you use it, and for what purposes? Lastly, which AI do you think suits you best? I am subscribed to ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini. I’ve got Adobe Creative Cloud Pro, so I use their AI, Firefly. I used to use Perplexity, but I stopped. It’s great for research or gathering information. Oh, if you know of any AI that is great at voiceover for different types of articles, please let me know, as I am looking for AI that can voice over all future articles and review articles. Until next time, stay safe, and happy holidays! Joshie.
Yes, mostly for the boring parts. First drafts, regex, meta descriptions, quick scripts, explaining an error log. The big catch is it sounds equally confident when it is wrong, so anything with numbers, dates or code that touches production still gets checked by hand. Net win for speed, not a replacement for knowing the subject.
Funny you asked, just today I coded something totally without AI. I was like, man, I really need to train that brain muscle again! It's definitely helped me improve overall. When I first started using AI for coding, it really opened my eyes to how outdated some of my coding practices were.
I've been having a battle with Reddit all year over "scraping" and over the weekend bit the bullet and put my code into a Devvit app. I only needed the search function in Devvit, but wanted it to look fully featured, so I converted as much of the project over as possible. It's not approved yet but the bit I really needed working works in dev & feeds the data through. It took a couple of hours to get it working the way I wanted, but that's nothing compared to learning how to write a Devvit app, writing it and creating TOS and privacy docs. The first pass didn't scroll in mobile; fixed in a jiffy. Would have taken me much longer. If it's mission-critical, definitely test the bejeesus out of it, but you should be doing that anyway.