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Re:KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rus... by vips7L on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:26PM (#50419795)
AI can’t do it. You still have to hold its hand. You still have to sit there and ask it to do things. There is no fire and forget.
Re:KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rus... by altmanaltman on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:31PM (#50419837)
For personal projects that don't matter? Sorry but that's your opinion at this point. I respect it but also fully disagree. Also even in that case, isn't it still reducing time and problems we have with pre-AI personal projects like maintainability and feature creep like you mentioned.
Re:KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rus... by vips7L on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:46PM (#50419944)
It’s just my opinion that you have to ask the LLM to do things? Seems like reality to me tbh.
Re:KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rus... by 80fj0348i on Sunday November 08, 2026 @09:15PM (#50420142)
> For personal projects that don't matter?

My personal projects matter a lot. For some of them I am trusting my private data in the code, so I need to hold it to a high security and privacy standard. For others, I have hundreds or thousands of users (game mods, helper tools for hobbies, etc.), and I don't want to ship low quality to them.

Re:KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rus... by altmanaltman on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:21AM (#50439294)
If you have 1000s of users, how is it a "personal project" anymore? I meant things that you only use yourself. Also why would your private data leak just because you used AI to reduce time to code? Any gain is good, even if it doesn't fully replace everything you good, no?
Re:KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rus... by 80fj0348i on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:59PM (#50448490)
> If you have 1000s of users, how is it a "personal project" anymore?

Because I offer no warranty and work on it on my personal time. What use is code nobody uses?

> Also why would your private data leak just because you used AI to reduce time to code?

Because if I don't exercise rigor and review oops you let the security holes in (I had to do like 4-7 separate pentest passes on AI generated code to catch and close the vulnerabilities)

Re:KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rus... by altmanaltman on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:24AM (#50451285)
> Because I offer no warranty and work on it on my personal time.

As I said, that is not what I meant by "personal projects that don't matter". And who said about code that nobody uses? 1 person is using that code in my definition, in case it wasn't clear.

So we are just talking semantics here at this point.

Re:KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rus... by Aurornis on Sunday November 08, 2026 @10:14PM (#50420588)
> For personal projects that don't matter?

If it doesn’t matter then do what you want. By definition, it doesn’t matter.

Some of us actually use these tools, so it does matter. You do have to consider things when it matters.

Re:KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rus... by altmanaltman on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:24AM (#50439331)
Yes fair enough, but they will be personal projects that matter. I am not sure why you're reading this as if I said your personal projects don't matter. I spoke of "personal projects that don't matter" as a category.

The second sentence I agree, of course you need to consider things when it matters. Thats the basic definition of importance.

Re:KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rus... by arlcode on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:54AM (#50421987)
For my personal projects I think it does matter even more. I've got some perculiar and weird quirks that may even go against best practices (that's what makes them personal projects).

AI can get these done implementation wise but in my experience it needs guidance because it can't guess what features and details I want /don't want.

The difference is that it's now possible at all for me but still requires a few hours every now and then supervising.