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Using AI to build your own software
A few years ago, a friend of mine was stuck. He needed to quickly process over a hundred high-quality images according to a complicated sequence. He was using Photoshop, but it was going to take him days. Initially, he asked for my help, could I do the manual labor? I spent 15 minutes writing a script with ImageMagick that processed all the images in seconds, but in a completely automated way.
When my kids were young, instead of helping them study algebra and grammar, I wrote small JavaScript apps for them to use. I built a small collection of educational tools.
The great success story of AI for me is exactly this: AI helps you write your own tools, faster and better.
Last night, I was struggling with videos I had to process. I wanted to add nice subtitles to them. There are software applications for that, but they require manual labor and don’t always work the way I want them to. After a long night, I had an insight: why don’t I ask my AI to help build the automated tool I need? So I did—and it worked really well, very quickly. So what’s the lesson here? Maybe that we should spend more time building our own software for our own personal use than we used to.
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Using AI to build your own software
A few years ago, a friend of mine was stuck. He needed to quickly process over a hundred high-quality images according to a complicated sequence. He was using Photoshop, but it was going to take him days. Initially, he asked for my help, could I do the manual labor? I spent 15 minutes writing a script with ImageMagick that processed all the images in seconds, but in a completely automated way.
When my kids were young, instead of helping them study algebra and grammar, I wrote small JavaScript apps for them to use. I built a small collection of educational tools.
The great success story of AI for me is exactly this: AI helps you write your own tools, faster and better.
Last night, I was struggling with videos I had to process. I wanted to add nice subtitles to them. There are software applications for that, but they require manual labor and don’t always work the way I want them to. After a long night, I had an insight: why don’t I ask my AI to help build the automated tool I need? So I did—and it worked really well, very quickly. So what’s the lesson here? Maybe that we should spend more time building our own software for our own personal use than we used to.
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#ChipAndCheese
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(author: George Cozma)
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#ChipAndCheese
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(author: George Cozma)
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Arch Linux: Recent news updates
Active AUR malicious packages incident
We are currently experiencing a high volume of malicious package adoptions and updates in the Arch User Repository.
We are actively working to track down existing malicious commits and attempting to prevent additional malicious commits from being pushed. While this is happening, and while we work to create a more permanent solution, users may see issues with the following:
● Creating new accounts on the AUR
● Pushing package updates
● Adopting or creating new packages
We continue to encourage all users of AUR packages to review all PKGBUILD and install script changes when updating, especially during this time. If you notice suspicious commits to a package that you use, please reach out to Arch staff via the aur-general mailing list with more information.
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(author: Campbell Jones)
Active AUR malicious packages incident
We are currently experiencing a high volume of malicious package adoptions and updates in the Arch User Repository.
We are actively working to track down existing malicious commits and attempting to prevent additional malicious commits from being pushed. While this is happening, and while we work to create a more permanent solution, users may see issues with the following:
● Creating new accounts on the AUR
● Pushing package updates
● Adopting or creating new packages
We continue to encourage all users of AUR packages to review all PKGBUILD and install script changes when updating, especially during this time. If you notice suspicious commits to a package that you use, please reach out to Arch staff via the aur-general mailing list with more information.
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(author: Campbell Jones)
