What are you working on (non-AI)?

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Please don't turn this into an inflammatory post.Regardless of "AI" being good or bad (it's not even just one thing as many of you know), I feel like the "What are you working on?" posts are drowning in things that use AI for something and/or are clearly "AI slop".I'd like to look at things other humans have been doing (even if they used a bit of some kind of AI for assistance), that aren't a product or tool that uses AI for something.I know it exists (and I use and build some), but it's incredibly hard to find nowadays. Can you help me?Thank you.

junaid_97 · Accepted Answer

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david927 · Answer

Hi, I'm David and I run the "What are you working on?" posts. I hear what you're saying and yet I think it's just the new reality. There will be more projects and some of those will be quickly-made vibe-coded projects. I'm not against it.
In Moveable Feast, Hemingway talks about being opposed to ski lifts (which were probably fairly new at the time). He thought, if you're fit enough to hike up the mountain, you're going to be fit enough to ski down without getting injured; it opens skiing up to people who maybe shouldn't be skiing. I deeply prefer ski lifts. :-) And I love agentic AI coding.
I guess what I'm saying is that we shouldn't compare it to the past, because that's gone. And yet, each month the number of comments breaks 1000, so "drowning" is a fair word for just number of projects alone. And I don't have any answers.
Anyway, you (and anyone reading this) can feel free to email me. My email in my profile.

goodthink · Answer

I bought $5 worth of Claude API tokens the other day because Newspeak [0] is implementing an API interface in the IDE.
I work with Newspeak every night building all kinds of crazy stuff, from the raycasting tutorial to an IndexedDB interface. Currently, I have the IDE running as an Isolated Web App for access to TCPSockets [1][2][3].
I'm implementing ancient TCP protocols bringing them to the web.
[0] https://newspeaklanguage.org
[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/iwa
[2] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/iwa/direct-sockets
[3] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/telnet-client (example IWA)

farwaabbas · Answer

Good to see this post, a simple non AI tagged post would make it more easier to find useful projects that are not focused on AI, while keeping the community together.

nazarh · Answer

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Leena-ch · Answer

Good timings on this. I think a lot of people are quietly building useful things and just not posting about them because it doesn't get traction next to AI announcements. would love to see more of these threads.