How is AI making you more effective, efficient or creative?
Recent advances in coding models and pair-programming tools like Aider have completely changed how I build tools. What used to take hours—or remain unfinished due to lack of time—is now possible in 30 minutes or less.
In the past, I’d throw together quick scripts for personal use, with minimal testing, error handling or documentation. Now, I can prototype just as quickly but let AI handle the tedious work—making it more robust, adding features and improving maintainability.
Take my latest 30 minute project: an offline transcription tool. The core building blocks already existed—OpenAI Whisper for speech-to-text, Pyannote for speaker diarisation—but integrating them into a reliable workflow takes effort. I also wanted an easy way to assign speaker names based on conversation snippets. Instead of wrestling with all the details, I wrote a rough first draft, then simply described what else needed, and AI helped build it.
AI will give the best developers "God mode"—I truly believe it can 10-100x their productivity. And for people like me, who code just to scratch an itch, it’s making things possible that I wouldn’t have attempted before.
What are you going to build today?
Check it out: SpeakerScribe
