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Aivars
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About AI tools and a demo video

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AI Tools is an experimental feature that extends what AI can do.

Previously AI could only work with code you selected and showed it.
Now with AI Tools enabled, AI can:
  • Search through your project files on its own
  • Read any file it needs to understand the context
  • Find where specific functionality is implemented
  • Make changes across multiple files in one task
  • It sends back only the changed parts, so it can work with large files
Example: Instead of finding and selecting the config file yourself, you can just say "change the database timeout to 30" and AI will find the right file in the project and make the change.

Enable/disable via menu AI -> AI Tools and from the AI prompt dialog.

Here's a quick demo of some random project from Github:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaFZd3VRUTQ
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Re: About AI tools and a demo video

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Could you make a video about creating a web page, especially a more sophisticated layout, with WB with AI enabled? I'd think that would be the most useful use case for many of us. Thanx.
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Re: About AI tools and a demo video

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My opinion is that creating a website is not the best use of AI. The reason is that when you create a website, you usually care a lot about the design and all the tiny details on the frontend, so you probably want to have hands-on approach at least for that part.
My opinion is that AI works much better for:
  • creating systems that you don't care so much about the little details (helper systems for specific tasks, backend systems that are not user-facing)
  • adding features, components, modules to the existing system
  • finding and fixing bugs
However this is a fun experiment so here you go.

About the project: I asked AI with tools enabled to make a comedy site with admin panel to edit content. No restrictions on the design or content.
Results: most of the project works, but it is unfinished. E.g. there is a possibility to add extra sections to the page, but these sections are not showing up in frontend, also no reordering of the sections, so more talking to AI would be needed to finish the project.

I used slow, smart engine (Claude Sonnet Thinking) but I think the thinking version was not necessary here.
Total spent: 210 AI credits.

The video is here, you might want to skip over the slow parts or speed it up. It demonstrates setup, creating, tweaking. In real life you usually need a lot of tweaking to get things to be exactly how you envision them, but that is exactly where the magic lies.
https://youtu.be/xNFJLwO6V3I

This is the project source created:
somepage.zip
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