Just because AI was used doesn't mean that it wasn't valuable to that person as an experience, and that it's not also valuable to someone else.

I say good job on shipping a project!

The newer models are nice, but the harness is the secret sauce that can make or break the experience. I wish we had better open tools for using/modifying these types of things.

In development, it will sometimes do all sorts of wild and convoluted things because the conversation has been compressed and it suddenly can't remember the structure of the project or other critical instructions.

AI should never have access to a production environment. Ever. Thankfully, we enforce that.

Can you give an example of your use case?

Local has come a long way, but it is still limited and slow. And while there are some people who have done stuff like this, the field is so new that you're probably going to get someone that doesn't have direct experience with everything. In other words, they're going to get stuff wrong. You will have to rebuild some part of it. You might not purchase the right hardware. Can you live with this?

In all fairness, though, if you have someone who has experience in evaluating new systems and using them to build something, then you can still be in good shape. I mentioned this, simply because it's a skill that is not as common as we would like in this world. Just look for someone with a track record of delivering functional software using new technologies.

My personal bias is that I love to keep as much local as possible, but I also realize that I bought a $3,000 machine that so far has saved me $5 in tokens from an external API. As I see it, the only real reasons to have local AI at the moment is privacy, but that does fit your use case.

As for a turnkey solution, they have their benefits, but their moat is significantly smaller now than it used to be. Quite frankly, you can vibe code the majority of TurnKey solutions in a weekend. Well, at least the parts that you need.

Sorry to not give more specific answers, but a lot of your questions may depend on whichever developer you decide to use. There's not necessarily a wrong answer in many cases, there are multiple paths to achieve what you are trying to do. If I were you, I would focus on long-term maintainability and security of your system. For example, you can have the best thing in the world, but if you can't pass a SOC2 (or, even worse, your developer has never heard of something like that) then you are going to be in a lot of pain.

These are available to read completely free online, but I do plan to purchase the physical books some day.

[edit] I realize that I should probably give more context to my answer. The books on the site are basically interviews with the authors of the software and they discuss what choices they made as well as the advantages/tradeoffs of this approach. In other words, the direct answer to your question is to learn by reading what other people have written about their own successes and glean from that.

[edit 2] Your favorite LLM could also provide a list of books that are similar in spirit, but there's just something about the series that I linked to that I like.

I love coding. I love low level coding. But I haven't written any code in the last 6 months, roughly.

But I don't feel empty or dissatisfied at all. My realization for myself is that I love solving problems and designing elegant solutions. Using AI, I still have to do that. I still have to make choices about how I want specified modules to interoperate. I know the big picture, and can catch when the AI is taking a shortcut.

I realized that it is all still low level design in my eyes. And I enjoy doing it, whether with my own hands, or with AI.

The amazing thing with AI, though, is that it has allowed me to explore so many things much quicker than I could before. It's still my design, my ideas, and even my poor choices that I have to deal with, but it reduces the boiler plate, so to speak.

That, and it has allowed me to explore more than I ever dreamed that I would be able experience.

Note, I did try Artix, but when it broke last week after a restart (in which evidently something had gone wrong with an earlier kernel update), and I had to pull out a rescue ISO, I decided I didn't want to mess with that. I switched that machine to Devuan, but the jury is still out for me. I don't have any major complaints, but I'm still in the burn-in phase. :) I'm running Arch on a laptop, but they have been a bit hostile in the community with censorship, so I'm just waiting for a free weekend to blast it and put something else on. I don't want political drama in my software.

This all comes at an interesting time, though. This is the first time that I purchased a new laptop and didn't even let it boot into Windows, but instantly installed Linux. And everything "just worked". And now that I'm excited to try Linux, so many of the big players are embracing the steps to erode privacy (AI everywhere... age attestation/verification... telemetry on by default...). It's sad, and I'm just going to "nope" out of any interactions with them.

Context: I'm just trying to get more efficient with tax paperwork and household management. An MCP server in which my agent could search for products (and examine the listings to see if they actually match my requirements, such as dietary restrictions) would be even more amazing, but that's probably asking too much.

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So, my question is simple: how do you solve the problem? I've tried searxng with mediocre success, but it seems a bit heavy to have to be running a complete separate service for this one thing that I only need every once in a while. I haven't tried using a service that requires an API key, simply because I'm not sure which direction to go or who to go with.

Just thought I would ask here first.

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Editing to give more context:

I'm on an ultrawide and didn't see the help at the top right corner.

But, now I'm thinking: "OK, I typed something... what do I do with it?" Is the intent to copy/paste it somewhere? Take a screenshot? Does it convert to a less-savory format (e.g., latex)? Just looking for some directions.

By the way... congrats on shipping a project!

There's multiple different approaches with both 4-shape and 7-shape systems being common. But the point is that your color system seems largely correlated to it, and there has been research done on the shape note system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_note

Does anyone know which fonts (or, probably more importantly, which modern-day equivalents) are used to get this feeling?