Ask HN: Has anyone built anything useful using AI?

3 bapak 4 8/11/2025, 5:32:31 AM

By useful I mean "something that doesn't just output text".

A lot of the tools I see are chat wrappers or code generators.

Comments (4)

ejlanor · 2h ago

Curious to know this too.

I miss the pre LLM days on HN when hype was spread around various topics instead of it just being about AI.

farseer · 27m ago

On HN, AI has diluted the hype around bitcoin so that is a net positive.

revskill · 2h ago

No. They are hype.

jaggs · 3h ago

Yep.

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