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I'm interested in hosting something like this, and I'd like to know experiences regarding this topic.

The main reason to host this for privacy reasons and also to integrate my own PKM data (markdown files, mainly).

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I can absolutely see it getting useful for a pro. It's already a better version of IDE templates. If you have to write boilerplate code this can already do that. It's a huge time saver for the things you'd have to go look up to remember how to do and piece together yourself.

Example: today I wanted a quick way to serve my current working directory over HTTP so I could do some quick web work. I asked ChatGPT to write me a bash function I could stick in my profile to do this, and I told it to pick a random unused port. That would have taken me much longer had I went to lookup how to do that all. The only hint I gave it was to use the Python builtin module for serving http.