It is meant to be a starting point. I'm bandwidth limited at this point in life, so can't just pick up the skills necessary to do it right. AI was not just a convenience but a necessity, despite my many reservations about it. This was an acceptable use case in my book.
On Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 11:06:34 AM UTC-4 Vince Skahan wrote: > Interesting but risky. Having done this kind of stuff for so long my > continued fear is minimally functional unsupportable garbage. It gave you a > working solution ‘as a starting point’ which is fine but ‘shipping the > prototype’ rarely ends well. > > And 100% of what it told you was fiction. You”ll not learn best practices > not spot security or privacy holes, nor learn what good even looks like. If > that works for you, cool. You scratched your itch, and thanks for the > github repo which is always appreciated, > > On Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 7:13:44 AM UTC-7 WeatheredScientist wrote: > >> I think it's interesting how far the LLM enabled me to go. Just setting >> up the configs was interesting, I saw it make a lot of the same errors I >> would have been likely to make (appending text strings instead of >> replacing, for instance). >> >> Ultimately, it's working, and I've shared it on github and docker. But >> it's fair to challenge what's up there to make it better, and make sure >> there isn't anything unnecessary or sloppy. If anyone is interested in >> helping, I'm open to learning and improving. >> >> On Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 7:38:37 AM UTC-4 Greg Troxel wrote: >> >>> WeatheredScientist <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>> > @Vince, great questions. Keeping in mind, this whole build was heavily >>> > AI-assisted, i used claude to answer some of your questions, but i >>> think >>> > the responses are reasonable. Please challenge if they are slop! >>> >>> Different people have different norms, but I think it's not ok to ask >>> other humans to wade through and fix LLM output. It's usually overly >>> verbose, and wrong in ways that are harder to spot than an actual >>> confused human. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d9774867-4930-47a9-b2fd-dfcd74619c0en%40googlegroups.com.
