wolverine · p/tech · 4/4/2025, 4:04:11 PM

AI Is A Controlled Tool, It Is Not Here To Help You or Me Specifically

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mrinfinity · 4/5/2025, 7:56:58 PM · permalink

I use AI for development. I work on passion projects which means I work on things I believe in, it's too hard for me to sit down, get up, do things, sit back down, re-focus, zone in, code, flow, get interrupted, get back up, go do things; and repeat over and over. In work life, I jump from task to task or 'this needs done' to 'this needs done' or 'this call' to 'this call' - it's hectic. AI answers my questions and gives me perspectives; for example I took two hours (time I do not have at the moment and wish I did)  of coding something the wrong way and stumbled upon how to do it the right way, then I asked it how I could implement it the right way; and sure as hell; it told me. Everything in development is a component. A component of a whole, if you break it down; if you build one small part of a time it adds up; if you ask the AI to build small things in detail; say 'Build me a function that searches a directory, a function searchDir(dirName,'keyword') that searches all .json files in a given directory for all items that contain the keyword, then return the item name, for example x { y: "z" should return "z",' it will build you that function. Yes, I could code this myself, but I enjoy making it this way and learning the languages. Believe it or not, I cracked my knuckles this morning and the middle of my hands cracked and my hands hurt so bad my eyes widened in pain. I'm in my mid 30s. So, I ask myself, do I really want to type ALL of this code, even though I can? Everybody before this was going to stackoverflow.  
  
```code
function searchDir(dirName, keyword) {
  const results = [];
  
  // Check if directory exists
  if (!fs.existsSync(dirName)) {
    console.error(`Directory "${dirName}" does not exist`);
    return results;
  }
  
  // Get all files in the directory
  const files = fs.readdirSync(dirName);
  
  // Filter for JSON files and process them
  files
    .filter(file =&gt; path.extname(file).toLowerCase() === '.json')
    .forEach(file =&gt; {
      const filePath = path.join(dirName, file);
      
      try {
        // Read and parse the JSON file
        const data = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(filePath, 'utf8'));
        
        // Search for the keyword in the JSON object
        searchObject(data, keyword, results);
      } catch (error) {
        console.error(`Error processing file ${filePath}: ${error.message}`);
      }
    });
  
  return results;
}

/**
 * Recursively searches an object for a keyword and collects matching item names
 * @param {Object|Array} obj - Object or array to search
 * @param {string} keyword - Keyword to search for
 * @param {Array} results - Array to collect results
 */
function searchObject(obj, keyword, results) {
  if (!obj || typeof obj !== 'object') return;
  
  // Handle arrays and objects
  if (Array.isArray(obj)) {
    // For arrays, check each element
    obj.forEach(item =&gt; searchObject(item, keyword, results));
  } else {
    // For objects, check each key-value pair
    Object.entries(obj).forEach(([key, value]) =&gt; {
      // If value is an object or array, search it recursively
      if (value &amp;&amp; typeof value === 'object') {
        searchObject(value, keyword, results);
      } 
      // Check if value is a string containing the keyword
      else if (typeof value === 'string' &amp;&amp; value.includes(keyword)) {
        results.push(value);
      }
    });
  }
}
```
  
  
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AI Is A Controlled Tool, It Is Not Here To Help You or Me Specifically

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