AI and my projects

[whomper]

I too consider AI as a tool that should be leveraged to support oneself versus a thing to flag and tag against.

I am currently working on many ST applications mainly due to lack of support for how I wish to work on my Falcon, basically like my MAC. As a developer of many years, the one platform I didn't program on was the Atari ST one. However, I know what I want.

Hence why I have created a small army of Claude Code agents that are my development department. I function as the CEO and CPO (Chief Product Office ) and have created a specific Claude agent that is my dev manager, I call it the Hub.

I give it requirements and it defines coding standards, owns shared code across all applications, runs final testing and matrix configuration testing prior to going live, checks readme files etc.
Each session owns their application code and are expert in that domain; FTP, Web, Mail, Media etc.

I sometime work with individual agents to drive requirements and iterate on their applications, and sometime with the Hub to iterate on the entire software portfolio, I call it AERA. Just recently I asked it to analyze discrepancies between the various applications, it worked with all sessions, built me a result document and we both walked item by item to decide how to resolve.

It allowed me in a span of 3 weeks to create 13 full fledged applications, 10 for ST, 2 for XL and 1 network gateway on a Pi. Application are coded mainly in C and Assembly and often employ the Falcon DSP for things like encryption, image and sound decoding etc.

The applications are modern, connect with cloud services, activated one another as needed, have modern features and support edge cases.

it does however create a lot of mental strain; imaging 10 agents reporting progress plus the Hub all happening in parallel as I work on all applications at the same time. I have asked the Hub to push some to maintenance mode, meaning just defects.

If you want to try some of them, head on to AERA Software
There is no way I would have created all of this without AI.

[prog99]

You dont need to answer this but how much are you spending on tokens a month and who with? (I assume Claude?)
I get away with a 10$ co-pilot subscription as I still do the majority of my code myself. Its just useful for tedious things.

[exxos]

You dont need to answer this but how much are you spending on tokens a month and who with? (I assume Claude?)
I get away with a 10$ co-pilot subscription as I still do the majority of my code myself. Its just useful for tedious things.

Yeah Claude costs about £90 a month. That's the problem. Cheaper ones I blast though in an afternoon. Other AI I wrote about before and just from them all next to useless for me.

[prog99]

Yeah Claude costs about £90 a month. That's the problem. Cheaper ones I blast though in an afternoon. Other AI I wrote about before and just from them all next to useless for me.

I use the free version of gemini for low effort stuff thats well documented. It's ok with unix scripting , basic python, grammar(!!!) etc
Work generously gives me $200 of Claude a month but I'm not in a very technical role anymore so barely use it. Its heavily monitored so no chance of using it for retro projects!

[Badwolf]

And to prove the point, here is exactly the same post again, but with the headings and bullet points some people seem to object to. Same words, same points. Which one would you honestly rather read?

Assuming this is an honest question and not purely rhetorical: the first.

In fact, I read the first all the way through and it read like you.

The second doesn't read like a human at all. Or at least not a human who wants to be read. It reads like a cross between a powerpoint presentation and a data archive. The latter might be useful in time, but I'm not going to read it end-to-end like I would your first post.

Now that may just be the way my brain works and I may just be old fashioned, but I'm reminded of the course I had to do on giving presentations back at university. The gist of it was: don't use powerpoint unless you have to (that ship has sailed as OHP's don't exist any more, but metaphorically in this case!); if you have to use powerpoint, don't fill each slide with bullet points; speak to your audience, don't shine a laser pointer at a screen and read it out to them.

I have always seen this good advice down the years.

IMO, your first post is genuinely speaking to your audience. The second comes across as the forum-based equivalent of pointing and reading out loud.

BW

[exxos]

Fair enough, that's a good point well made. I'll drop the heavy formatting and stick to plain posts in future, and the overhead projector can go back in the cupboard where it belongs.