I've made a few projects for Hive and recently have been using AI assistance to build even faster. I'm going to be honest, I was a skeptic of AI at first. I thought it wasn't good enough and made a lot of mistakes. And it did. I found manually writing to be quicker, and produced higher quality code(and sometimes it still does). But I still tried out the new models and checked them out, because change is constant and while I can't keep up with everything, keeping up with one of the biggest changes in the industry is worth it. When Claude Opus 4.5 was released, I actually changed my thoughts on AI and AI coding assistance. I was actually seeing a lot of benefits from this. No longer was AI just spitting out bad code that didn't conform to the rest of the codebase, instead it was giving actual usable code. Some code which has made it to production. Now of course I do review the code that comes out of the models to the "right" degree. A small UI that only I'm using will mean basically just check for functionality and call it good enough, but any code going into production in my workplace(a bank) will be fully manually reviewed by me.
I've been utilizing Windsurf(paid for by my employer or by me depending on where I use it) so far and yesterday at work I took over someone's task of converting our AI tooling from Windsurf to Claude. And I'm going to do the same for my personal to make things quicker and keep my knowledge up to date. Why learn 2 separate programs when I can be great at one?
I've built a few things for Hive in the past, many of which have shut down for various reasons, NFTMart, Giftgiver, and still do work on other projects, Holozing, my seed node constellation, FRIDAY the notification bot. I've been utilizing AI in some aspects to speed up work, or have it fully do it(see below for an example). My github with past projects can be found here: https://github.com/Rishi556/ (I've also started utilizing Codeberg due to it having IPv6 support and I run some IPv6 only servers and so some future work might be here: https://codeberg.org/rishi556/ ).
I've also contributed to some of the repos on gitlab(https://gitlab.syncad.com/rishi556). I really like the image hoster and vessel and have been keeping them up to date(to a degree, as much as I have time). By being able to utilize AI on some more things I can be quicker with what I produce, while still using the same degree of quality and higher than I have been producing so far(depending on the project of course, I'm going to continue to not care about quality code on small projects that don't mean much/won't be used by anyone but me).
Little application that keeps track of how much storage space my Hive Seed Nodes are consuming, the UI was fully "vibecoded"
