Over the past two years I’ve done a bunch of different freelance jobs, where I’ve built automations that either leverage AI, or are built with the

4 Lessons Learned from 2 years of AI-assisted coding

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Over the past two years I’ve done a bunch of different freelance jobs, where I’ve built automations that either leverage AI, or are built with the help of AI. I can’t really code, but with each improvement of LLMs and apps I create with the help of AI, I’m learning more and more, developing faster and being able to handle more complexity. Before I dive in the how, I’d like to share the journey I’ve been on with my projects over the last 1.5-2 years. It started off small, and then grew bigger and more elaborate over time, and the progress I’ve made can be distilled into a combination of four things:

One of the very first projects I did for myself was some basic classification of data using LLMs. A client had a scraped list of a few thousand homepages of all kinds of companies. They wanted to classify them, so you can easily filter on types of companies. In the past you probably would have to classify them using keywords based on contents on their page, but with LLMs you can simply write a decent prompt, feed it with the contents of the webpage, and have an LLM decide how it should be classified. Might not be 100% perfect, but that was alright for this purpose.

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