Rabbit holes - terrytaylorbonn/auxdrone GitHub Wiki

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Perhaps most importantly for someone working alone (as I am), the sandbox approach helps to avoid (or skip over) any rabbit holes. Avoiding rabbit holes (by choosing the right tools) is key for customer projects.

24.1231 (Gdrive)

There is no "intelligence" in AI. And its not "artificial". Its simulated by dumb binary machines. My AI studies for drones and my recent experience with ChatGPT (GPT) and Copilot have only reinforced this opinion. 40 years ago a few programmer friends were rambling on about how the primitive programs they wrote would one day replace human intelligence. Nothing has changed.

But these new AI tools are pure genius. Raising productivity to a new level. AI is critical for getting out of rabbit holes. The best thing is that Copilot/GPT provide useful documentation (just like Stackoverflow) for those wanting to know

  • how do I implement this?
  • what is causing this problem and how do I fix it?

Embrace the future. Code completion assistants that also give straight-to-the-point answers to specific questions (ChatGPT, Copilot, etc) are the future, the next evolutionary step in app dev.



AI rabbit hole rescues

Example 2 Astro

(this is not really about AI helping to get out of a rabbit hole, but I'll leave it here for now)

Perhaps most importantly for someone working alone (as I am), the sandbox approach helps to avoid (or skip over) any rabbit holes. Avoiding rabbit holes (by choosing the right tools) is key for customer projects.

About this post: See the Netlify deploy @ https://glistening-beijinho-65bd06.netlify.app/ and the doc #260_(OK-HALF)_astro_blog_INPUBLIC_v02_24.1222.docx) About half of it works.

I saw a lot of praise for Astro.build, the best thing for web dev since sliced bread. But after using it for a week, I wonder if Astro is the right for the vast majority of projects. This illustrates a big reason for this sandbox... to perform an assessment of whats out there.

The following sums up well (from Astro Blog Course - Full 3.5 hour course Coding in Public https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XzyobQYQVQ).

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My comment to the above:

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My comment on my deploy:

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Example 1 React

On 24.1220 I completed most of a React tutorial series by Dave Gray #258_(OK-MOSTLY)_react_GRAY_v01_24.1220.docx. Lots of problems starting at ch7.

  • Video 1 Introduction to React JS | ReactJS Setup and Resources
  • Video 2 React App Component and JSX
  • Video 3 React JS Functional Components
  • Video 4 CSS Styles in React JS
  • Video 5 React Click Events
  • Video 6 React useState Hook
  • (ERROR) Video 7 (33mins!) React JS Lists and Keys

I think the root problem was that this was a 3+ year old video, and I got some strange React installation errors at the beginning (I was trying to run old-style React with the newest components on my PC that I installed previously; something like that).

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Those errors came back to haunt me in ch7. But I was still able to do the gist of videos 12-14 (the API part which was my main interest) with Copilot's help.

  • Video 12 JSON Server Rest API | React Dev Server
  • Video 13 Fetch Data from API in React JS (BINGO)
  • Video 14 React CRUD Operations (BINGO!!)

I was also able to deploy the video 6 code:

  • Video 23 BINGO How to deploy a React App to Github Pages and Netlify

Copilot algorithms analyzed my request and the existing code, and told me what to write (based on my code). Amazing. Its like a typing/coding assistant on steriods.

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Example

About this post: See the Netlify deploy @ https://glistening-beijinho-65bd06.netlify.app/ and the doc #260_(OK-HALF)_astro_blog_INPUBLIC_v02_24.1222.docx) About half of it works.

I saw a lot of praise for Astro.build, the best thing for web dev since sliced bread. But after using it for a week, I wonder if Astro is the right for the vast majority of projects. This illustrates a big reason for this sandbox... to perform an assessment of whats out there.

The following sums up well (from Astro Blog Course - Full 3.5 hour course Coding in Public https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XzyobQYQVQ).

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My comment to the above:

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My comment on my deploy:

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