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A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.

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[–] dil@piefed.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

I like using it to setup github stuff and save time, like I needed to use rembg, I know you can setup terminal scripts as apps so if you open an app it runs the script. Had it set up a basic app to open videos with, create a folder using ffmpeg and turn it into an image sequence then run through that folder using removebg and/or depth anything (have added options for vectorizing, splats, etc.), afterwards sticying the image sequence back together to the original format, bringing back the audio. I was already doing this with comfyui before I realized they could be installed seprately be run through terminal commands, so I tried to get ai to set this up.

Took about 5 minutes and a penny or 2 using deepseekv4flash with hermes. At it's core, it's hella simple, it's just running existing programs rather than coming up with how to do all the tasks itself. I technically didn't need it and could manually type these terminal commands myself or figure out how to automate it, but ai setting it up means it actually got done and saved me hours of time.

After noticing most converters are frontends for ffmpeg and most downloaders yt-dlp, I realized you can easily make a gui for anything using the terminal with ai.