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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 15/01/2025

Now, I can still see work out there. It's just more of a question around whose going to survive, and what will their roles look like?

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 15/01/2025

Lets say all devs out there start really leveraging AI tools and they start deliverying work at a crazy pace. What does the industry look like? Is everyone now deliverying crazy amounts of work, or have teams been downsized and restructured. I suspect this is the reason for hiring freezes.

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 15/01/2025

Putting my business stakehoder hat on. Here's where thing get spicy. Lets say the teams pumping out work. I now have to worry about keeping the team fed with work otherwise they need to keep themselves busy. And if they become idle or I can't keep them fed with work. Do I need to adjust the team?

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 15/01/2025

I'll give you an example. Lets say we're building feature with some tricky scenarios. Without AI tools estimate is 3 days. With AI tools (ie. screenshots and prompts), even when the generated result isn't perfect, its now less than a day to complete. More work, faster. Awesome right?

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 15/01/2025

That was my original thinking and then when I saw the posts about Saleforce and Zuck talking about hiring freezes and my mind flipped. For example, I'm involved in large projects that don't factor in AI tools. When I do factor in AI tool usage, even when not perfect. The time required is slashed.

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 15/01/2025

Tried Googles notebooklm.google.com yet? Thought I'd try feeding in some docs into it about "Effectice LLM Agents". Two really cool Notebooklm features: 1. It allows you two generate a mini podcast of two AI hosts 2. The Interactive Mode lets you ask questions while the agents talk 🤯

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 14/01/2025

Are you a developer that converts designs into UIs? If so, do this especially if you haven't before. 👉Take a design and screenshot a feature 👉Feed that screenshot into bolt.new and ask it to generate the feature How close did it get? We all have some serious soul searching to do in '25.

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 13/01/2025

2025 hey? 🤯 Slowly getting back into the swing of things. Slowly getting out of holiday mode. Been tinkering with a few different workflows for my TeaMegaList directory. Trying a new meta prompt for generating images and man, do the images look good.

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 23/12/2024

Is there a AA for domain name buyers? Just bought braindumply.com... 🧠

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 19/12/2024

Will do! I’ve got some ideas I want to try out tonight. 😉

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 19/12/2024

Looks like @stackblitz.com has now released their official @supabase.com integration. Might have to give it a test run tomorrow.

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 17/12/2024

Conversation that I had tonight. Person: The rules have changed. Me: Ok, what are the new rules? Person: We can't tell you Me: Who can? Person: This other person Me: Cool, when can they tell me about the rule changes? Person: We don't know. We're working on it... 🤦‍♂️😕😠

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 16/12/2024

Couple things Ayush. All have their pros/cons. Serve different purposes. Bolt/Loveable - In browser and great to get a fully-working MVP off the ground Cursor/Windsurf - Code editors with AI for when you need to get your hands dirty coding If you have an existing project. Go Cursor/Windsurf.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 11/12/2024

Gemini 2.0 is out, and there's a ton of interesting stuff about it. From my testing it looks like Gemini 2.0 Flash may be the best currently available multi-modal model - I upgraded my LLM plugin to support that here: github.com/simonw/llm-g... Gemini 2.0 announcement: blog.google/technology/g...

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Release 0.7 · simonw/llm-gemini

New Gemini 2.0 Flash model: llm -m gemini-2.0-flash-exp 'prompt goes here'. #28

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 12/12/2024

Overall, pretty impressed with Gemini 2.0. The it returns really deep results with Grounding turned on. Can only imagine the type of projects people will come up with. Really exciting stuff.

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 12/12/2024

Good question! Did comparison between Gemini 1.5/2.0 Flash with Grounding. Asked for Gemini to give me a comprehensive list of public pools in/around the area. Thoughts: - 2.0 returns more results - 2.0 returns a lot faster - 1.5 results appear a lot more restrained Check the screenshot out.

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 12/12/2024

If you want to try Google Gemini 2.0 Flash out yourself. Go to aistudio.google.com and you have a look at the screenshot to see where you can turn on Ground (aka Google Search).

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 12/12/2024

Googles Gemini 2.0 with Grounding just blew my mind. Been collecting the data for a number of directory sites I'm building and its taking time. As a test, I just used Gemini 2.0 to do a search for all the coastal suburbs in NSW, and in seconds, I've got the data. Imagine the possibilities... 🤯

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 12/12/2024

Googles released Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental. Use it for free at aistudio.google.com. Key points: - Free to use within limits - Beating Claude (SWE-Bench) - Large token count (Upto 1 mill) - Supports realtime streaming (Voice, video, screen) - Example projects - aistudio.google.com/starter-apps

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 11/12/2024

Thanks Kevin. Appreciate it. 👍

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 11/12/2024

Uploaded my latest Youtube video. 🎥 In this one, "I Build a Directory Site using "Free Tiers" in v0, Bolt, Loveable and Replit". Aim was to discover which platform gives you the most bang for buck! Growing the channel, so a like, comment and subscribe would be amazing. 🙏 youtu.be/Xd2VtN6SCKw

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I Build a Directory Site using "Free Tiers" in v0, Bolt, Loveable and Replit - AI App Builder Battle

YouTube video by codewithmarcin

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 11/12/2024

Just a quick PSA. Not all Australian wildlife wants to kill you. Some are like this little nutter.

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 10/12/2024

If your ever wondering what the different is between X and Bsky. Its support from fine folks like this. 🙇 Likes might not seem like much but hey, its a tiny push in the right direction.

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 10/12/2024

That is until you press the db button too early and end up running out of tokens. haha In all seriousness, they all have their pros/cons. v0.dev - Minimalistic (Shadcn, etc) Bolt.new - Great support for frameworks loveable.dev - Fills in missing details (eg. design, toasts, animations, etc)

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 09/12/2024

Nice lens. Doing some landscape shots?

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 07/12/2024

Haha it feels like your throwing off chains. Felt fantastic until I ran out of my SerpAPI quota. Haha

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 05/12/2024

Any alternatives to SerpAPI out there? Looking for something a bit more cost effective that can return Google Places data.

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 05/12/2024

You know, I sometimes forget that its often easier and faster, just to write an old fashioned JavaScript script to collect and process a bunch of data.

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 05/12/2024

Going to go live for a bit. Tonights mission is to collect data for a Greater Sydney Dog Park Directory Site. Lets see what we can pull together in an hour. twitch.tv/codewithmarcin

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Briac ⚡ @briacdev.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Best indie hackers and tech founders 🦋 Comments to be added 👋🏻👋🏻 go.bsky.app/KUK4uBd

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 05/12/2024

Tonights tunes. Above & Beyond: Group Therapy 450 Deep Warm Up Set. What's everyone building today/tonight? 🔨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrzO... #buildinpublic

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Above & Beyond: Group Therapy 450 Deep Warm Up Set, London (Full 4K Live Set)

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 05/12/2024

Whatever you do. Don't move. haha

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 04/12/2024

You know, even if you end up scrunching up the notes. At least you’ll have dumped them in paper.

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 04/12/2024

Just a thought Maybe you need a note pad, a decent pen and some quiet lofi tunes to get your thoughts onto paper. Sometimes, you just need to get whatever your thinking, good or bad, about out of your head.

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 04/12/2024

Congrats dude. Keep shipping my man.

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 04/12/2024

Yeahhh, I know the feeling. Been playing with JavaScript for over 20 years know. Whenever I feel "fatigued", I normally try working with something else in my own time to re-charge the batteries a bit. For example, playing with Python and CrewAI atm. What are you using right now btw?

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 04/12/2024

For all my fellow #frontenders. @kulkarniankita.com just posted an honest review of TanStack Start vs Next.js. Worth having a watch. One of these days I really need to give TankStack a solid try. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D27A...

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An Honest Review of TanStack Start vs Next.js

YouTube video by Ankita Kulkarni

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Scott Tolinski @tolin.ski · 03/12/2024

Have you see Web Awesome? I’ve been giving the alpha a try and really love how great it feels to use. I’ve been sprinkling som of the components in my Svelte projects and it feels great. 2025 is the year I’ll consume more web components. Part 2 in next skeet since bsky has short videos.

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 03/12/2024

Thanks for the tick of approval! 🤣

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 03/12/2024

Hey guys, just checking whether my shiny heads floaty enough? Haha

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Marcin Piekarski 🇦🇺 @marcin.com.au · 03/12/2024

Talk about disappointment. 😔 Using Ancestry to track down family members that we lost track of during WWII. I found an "Avid Genealogist" that has contact with my Great Grandmothers sisters family who live in Australia! 🤯 I sent the guy WWII photos, docs, etc. And the guy doesn't want to help. 😡

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