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Laurens Southgate

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Web Developer | React & TypeScript | Author of Next Level Coding Blog https://t.co/k8lxXcgKvW https://t.co/oERCNCrtFk

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Laurens Southgate
12 days
Plot twist: "Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without"
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Laurens Southgate
14 days
I am really enjoying learning C. It's well and truly out of my comfort zone, but I like the challenge, and I feel like I am improving my problem solving skills. #C #Programming #100DaysOfCode
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Laurens Southgate
25 days
Really enjoying Code by Charles Petzold — it breaks down how computers work from the ground up, blending history and logic in a way that's surprisingly clear. Highly recommend for anyone curious about computing. #CodeBook #TechHistory #Computers #STEM
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Laurens Southgate
27 days
People are out there making content like "I convinced ChatGPT that God exists", that's easy. Want a real challenge? Try to get it to disagree with you. #ChatGPT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence.
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Laurens Southgate
28 days
I got myself out of a dead end job and depression through teaching myself how to code. Here's my blog post about my journey: . #SelfTaughtDev #CodeNewbie #DevJourney #WebDev #CareerChange
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Laurens Southgate
29 days
Check out my latest blog post:
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Laurens Southgate
1 month
When I encounter people who don't understand AI, usually they either think it is scary, or magical, or some combination of both. When you understand the tech its limits and capabilities, then you can use it effectively. #AI #Tech #AITwitter #MachineLearning #FutureTech.
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Laurens Southgate
1 month
Mindset is probably the most valuable thing that you can cultivate in life. Most people never succeed because they don't start with this seed.
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Laurens Southgate
1 month
The way out of tutorial hell is to always try out any of your own ideas that you have when you are following a tutorial. Otherwise you are just engaging in glorified copy/pasting. You only ever really learn when you try to do stuff. #TutorialHell #LearnToCode #CodeNewbie #DevTips.
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Laurens Southgate
1 month
My thought for the day:. If you use AI as a laziness enabler, you are doing it wrong. You still have to put effort into it to get decent results. Lazy people using AI just to do stuff quickly/with zero effort are going to ruin everything.#AIthoughts #UseAIWell #WorkEthic #AItalk.
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Laurens Southgate
1 month
Don't worry about AI; instead, learn how to leverage it. It's not yet fully adopted, but its future growth will create a vast economy. Use AI as an opportunity and engage with it.
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Laurens Southgate
1 month
I wish I had @KhanAcademy when I was at school. I did poorly in maths at school, and recently have been brushing up on some programming-related concepts and it has been a valuable resouce for me!.
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Laurens Southgate
1 month
@OpenAI It wasn't actually that hard to do. It is a little limited because it can only see what is on the current page. But my next step is to feed it more info so it can answer questions about me based on info that is on any page, or even info not on the website at all.
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Laurens Southgate
1 month
3. Got an @OpenAI API key and set up a function that submitted the user's question along with the scraped data to a GPT model.
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Laurens Southgate
1 month
2. Created the chat interface which is basically a form, and a container for any messages.
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Laurens Southgate
1 month
1. Created a function to get the content on each page and pass it into an array, ignoring things like nav links, or anything else that would be irrelevant to the AI.
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Laurens Southgate
1 month
How I created an AI assistant for my portfolio website, a thread. . #BuildInPublic #AIassistant #WebDev #OpenAI #JavaScript #TechThread.
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Laurens Southgate
1 month
It's only in it's first iteration so far, but I have just added an AI assistant to my portfolio website: #OpenAI #AI #Coding #100DaysofCode.
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Laurens Southgate
1 month
Just built a prototype AI wrapper that you can drop into any webpage/web app and ask questions based on the content on the page. Next step is to expand it to understand the content across the page and then to any additional documentation and content. #ai #100DaysofCode.
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