AI

Disclaimer All of the thoughts below are personal opinions, they’re not sponsored ones (I’D SURELY LOVE BEING SPONSORED but this blog has somewhat like 2 readers), the AI usage here is close to 0, with the exception of the grammar and style review, as the author can’t type 4 words without making a grammatical mistake. A lengthy intro AI is polarizing. People are in love-hate relationship with it and there are obvious reasons for that: fear of jobs being taken away from humans, enormous amount of AI-slop in every media format possible, endless AI-first solutions for non-existing problems, VCs pouring billions into AI solutions, endless AI-written linkedin posts about the bright future of AI, you all know it, it’s fatiguing. ...

I have a pet project I started around two years ago to get my head and hands around the AI tooling. It is a chatbot in a Telegram group chat, providing several chat-specific features. It’s nothing serious, just a way not to become rusty and try out some crazy things I did not have the opportunity to try at work. The project went through several rewrites and refactorings (as it always happens with long-lasting pet projects), changed several technologies, adopted clean architecture, an inversion-of-control framework, and all of those lovely things happened when there was no product pressure and close-to-non-existing customer needs. ...