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10X. 100X. I have very, very little time for programming anymore, but I have a lot of ideas for things I never had time to make. In the last 6 months I've bui
by ikidd 9mo ago
10X. 100X. I have very, very little time for programming anymore, but I have a lot of ideas for things I never had time to make.
In the last 6 months I've built (with the $20/mo plan from Cursor):
- shared tasks app that tracks fleet maintenance on my farm, with a personal tasks view. We can now search part numbers by equipment or refer back to previous work to look up invoices, as well as actually get jobs lined up for when we have help so they aren't sitting there staring at the walls because nobody has a list of what to do next.
- LoRa telemetry mesh for soil moisture sensors, gate motion sensors, waterbowl temperature and level sensors. This would have taken me months to build and debug, Cursor had it done in minutes, I prototyped and then punched up some boards on kicad and ordered them from JLCPCB. Took a couple days to debug them into a workable state and was in place for winter.
- Fertilizer planning application for figuring out our fertilizer buy while prices are low, based on:
- Soil sampler truck application for Android tablet, that interfaces a sub-3m Garmin GPS connected via bluetooth and tracks all the sample site for the sample truck as samples are punched, so we can go back to the same spot every year and determine soil regeneration results.
- Android application to track and calculate loads for silage feeding of cattle, since as you feed you'll want to rebalance the grain ration as you refill, and you'll often have silage at X %age left on, this app lets you enter the mix you want and calculates how much of each to add in order to rebalance the leftovers on the truck to the new ration. I actually did this one on my laptop while I was feeding cattle over a week.
- An alert app to watch MQTT and set phone alarms off if an alert pops up for telemetry problems or intrusion alerts on above LoRa mesh.
Currently working on a system that lets me run multiple Cursor sessions on a workstation and interact with the chats remotely over my phone so I can work on projects while I'm running equipment or doing chores.
A lot of people hate AI, and for a lot of things I totally get it. Frankly, the ethics of AI and the horrible uses people are finding for it scares the hell out of me. But I would never have found time to do any one of these items before AI. I used to run software projects when I was an IT nerd, so I know how program well enough to be dangerous. I'm enjoying having a team back.