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Ideas for AI plugins welcome

Ideas for AI plugins welcome - Lemmy.World

hey there, There is always a temptation to add “something AI” in new tools. Especially to tools that are somehow related to developer productivity. At the same time I wanted to avoid this temptation with Voiden. So there is currently nothing screaming “AI” in it even though I can potentially see many many use cases. This is also one of the main reasons I think that a plugin architecture is best. What was actually in my mind is that not adding AI is ok for now and the community will start coming up and building AI plugins. For example creating docs from specs and vice versa. Any other use cases you can think that could be applicable to a tool like this? (Dev Tool with executable markdown files for API specs, tests and docs). The first plugins we shipped were more around methods (grpc, graph ql, web sockets etc etc). repo: https://github.com/VoidenHQ/feedback [https://github.com/VoidenHQ/feedback] [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/40ca24c8-6581-4dfb-97e3-814a9cf6075e.png]

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nikolasdimi 5d ago

so there could be an option “select a texan taxi driver” irrespective of where you are in the world

nikolasdimi 5d ago

yap…thats the thing…you never know…the interesting conversations can only happen only when we are open and ready to accept also the banal ones :)

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nikolasdimi 5d ago

thats super sad…I dont have a problem with someone not wanting chit chat but isnt better to just say “hey, today I am not in much mood to talk” or to show it and to make it happen without explicitly selecting it in an app…

its just very black mirror esque

nikolasdimi 5d ago

TIL that in uber in certain countries you can select a driver that does not talk for people who prefer silent drives

https://lemmy.world/post/44427790

TIL that in uber in certain countries you can select a driver that does not talk for people who prefer silent drives - Lemmy.World

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nikolasdimi 6d ago

we are indeed looking at the docs again. To begin with we focused on the tool itself so some of the examples that you see can indeed be worth revisiting and re writing. :) But I hope you can focus and zoom in to the tool itself and see how this can help you with your API workflows.

nikolasdimi Mar 16

If your API client supported Python scripting, would you use it over JavaScript?

https://lemmy.world/post/44326231

If your API client supported Python scripting, would you use it over JavaScript? - Lemmy.World

Note - This post is intended to look for feedback in a tool that solves a problem we have been seeing (around API clients not supporting Python) - and hopefully help Python folks (like it helped us when building it). So, a bit of a backstory - Something I noticed while we were building our internal tool for API testing: A lot of developer tools assume JavaScript scripting by default. API clients are a good example of this. scripting = JavaScript And yes it might not be always a huge problem, but it adds constant friction. Eventually we realized the real issue was not just JavaScript. The issue was and is that many tools force a single language. So when we started building our own API client (link below), we decided to approach scripting differently: Pre-request and post-request scripts support multiple languages and runs on real interpreters, not a limited sandbox like most Clients do. So we built this to support Python and JS from day 1 and now releasing shell script + more coming (perhaps Go would be the next??) The idea is simple: Your API tool should adapt to your stack, not the other way around. Some developers think in JS, some in Python, some in Go or Rust. The tool shouldn’t care. Q: Would you actually use Python for request automation inside an API client, or do you prefer handling that logic outside the tool? Repo: https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden [https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden]

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nikolasdimi Mar 14

True. Background of the story of how I learnt is in my tai chi class where I asked the teacher if they also do king fu there. And they told me that well tai chi is also part of kung fu.

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nikolasdimi Mar 14

I have added the link! It’s free to watch

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nikolasdimi Mar 13

wow wow thanks! please spread the word!