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Solid read. Been hearing a lot of great things about GLM 5.2 lately specifically, I need to slot some time in to try it out

I can definitely relate to wanting to feel accomplished after a coding session and how AI can sort of strip you of that feeling at times. For me personally, I started to find the joy in the AI + coding relationship once I realized I just had to reframe my thinking a bit.

It's less about code generation for me and more about opportunities to learn new things. It could be as simple as having it optimize my code in a way I hadn't even thought of or it could be me wanting to learn a new complex architectural pattern I haven't had the time to deep dive but have wanted to. Now I can spin something up and have a base understanding of it in minutes. That's exciting to me more than anything else. In a way, it takes me back to way earlier in my career when every day felt like I was learning something new and cool on the job from more seniors devs. I think as you get more senior and experienced, those "cool" learning moments start to happen a little less, so having AI be able to reignite that is exciting in a lot of ways.

It's definitely easy to get caught up in that and I think for a while I was probably in that headspace, but where the excitement started to set in was the realization that it could be leveraged to reduce the less "fun" parts of my day so I could focus on what I enjoy most. It's not purely a "AI writes code for me" kind of hype (although that's a nice benefit). I spend a lot less time debugging tiny issues hidden in legacy code or sifting through poorly written docs for libs that the codebase depends on, for example. That's a huge win and it lets me focus my time on producing quality work.

No need to apologize for the jadedness at all! I think we're in an era of AI fatigue where every piece of content you see feels like it's AI generated (or assisted). Arguably most points in this post can be looked at as common sense to some degree. I think what I was trying to get across was my mental models and view on AI in tech since I still see a shocking amount of devs who look at it simply as a means to generate code for them and nothing more.

I'm planning on writing more that dives a bit deeper into experimentation I've done as far as tooling, MCP servers, etc that may be a bit more intriguing to those who have already dove into the AI side of things.

Hey HN, ChromeExtensionKit is a side project of mine that includes a bunch of different starter templates for basic (HTML/CSS/JS) and React-based Chrome extensions (with setup and publish scripts) as well as some fully functional example extensions for inspiration. I originally built the starter templates as I found myself setting up and configuring every extension project roughly the same way and wanted to speed that process up in the future. The kit also includes an ebook with actionable growth tips and tricks.

If anyone has any questions, I would love to answer them!

Hey HN, ChromeExtensionKit is a side project of mine that includes a bunch of different starter templates for basic (HTML/CSS/JS) and React-based Chrome extensions (with setup and publish scripts) as well as some fully functional example extensions. I originally built the starter templates as I found myself setting up and configuring every extension project roughly the same way and wanted to speed that process up in the future.

I also wrote and included a short ebook outlining how to use the kit as well as a lot of what I learned growing a number of extensions to over 4,000 users each.

If anyone has any questions, I would love to answer them!

Awesome, thank you! That's exactly the reason I originally built them, I found myself going back to old projects constantly or looking up how to define the manifest, use the Chrome APIs, or integrate React into an extension again. If you have any suggestions for additional starting points, I'd love to hear them!

Hey HN, ChromeExtensionKit is a side project of mine that includes a bunch of different starter templates for basic (HTML/CSS/JS) and React-based Chrome extensions (with setup and publish scripts) as well as some fully functional example extensions. I originally built the starter templates as I found myself setting up and configuring every extension project roughly the same way and wanted to speed that process up in the future.

I also wrote a short ebook on outlining how to use the kit as well as a lot of what I learned growing a number of extensions to over 3,000 users each.

If anyone has any questions, I would love to answer them!

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Really informative, thank you!

At first glance, it seems very condensed and a little heavy on the eyes. Also, try breaking down the experience points to be more concise and less blocky. Generally, the idea is that you want someone to be able to look at your resume in ~15 seconds and be able to get a decent idea of it's contents.

One great starting point is the sample resume that Gayle McDowell provides on Career Cup: https://www.careercup.com/resume

Extremely impressive list, do you mind me asking how you initially get the projects off the ground in terms of users / traffic?

Also as a side note, thank you for daterangepicker! I've integrated it into a couple little things I've built like chrome extensions and absolutely love it.

Valuable and actionable advice, I really appreciate it! I continue to see content marketing pop up, so I'm definitely going to try and explore that much more.

Really helpful feedback, thanks! I can definitely incorporate and adapt a lot of these points with what I do.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll take a look!

I have not (at least not with the intention of talking about a side project), excellent idea!

I agree completely. I've come to learn its certainly a time consuming task regardless of the product, and the fact that it's a side product adds a degree of difficulty.

I've had a lot of mixed results from reddit as well. I'm fairly active in a number of subreddits so I find I get decent results when I post products in those, but overall my experience could be categorized as "luck" I would say...Sometimes it takes and other times it doesn't.

Thanks for the really informative post. I've actually tried some blogging in the past but have since slowed down as I wasn't getting a ton of results, I'm definitely going to try and stick with that though. I also like the idea of being active in various communities. Thanks again.

That sounds really intriguing, I'll take a look!