ReconToolBot Dashboard (historical data for geeks and nerds)

[4nthony]

In an effort to make my ReconToolBot habit look a little more legitimate, I had AI build a dashboard. Not sure what that says about me—but the data is kinda interesting (assuming it's accurate)

If you're interested, take a look here.

Dashboard - ReconToolBot

The data for the dashboard is not real-time. It's just a copy of the database the bot uses. I'll update from time to time but just know the data may be a few days stale.

Tool Filter:

SKU History:

Listings by product types:

 

[peter halle]

That is great! I wonder if Festool USA even has something like this.

Peter

 

[luvmytoolz]

That is great! I wonder if Festool USA even has something like this.

Peter

@4nthony should develop this further and when it's really popular out in the field, sell it to Festool for eleventy billion dollars!

I'm pretty sure that's how software development works anyway? ;-)

 

[Cheese]

This is really cool can it differentiate between a single item for sale and multiples of the same item for sale?

 

[4nthony]

That is great! I wonder if Festool USA even has something like this.

Peter

I'm sure they have dashboards that go way more detailed than this. Recon is powered by Shopify and they've got tons of analytics for all this stuff.

This is really cool can it differentiate between a single item for sale and multiples of the same item for sale?

It should. The product table towards the bottom of the grid has all the tools grouped by SKU (first screenshot). If you click on a SKU, you'll then see the SKU detail and the listing history along with pricing at that time. The screenshot above with the Domino shows the listing history for that particular SKU.

I broke out some of the tool categories so rather than just Sanders, you get corded sanders, cordless sanders, and Planex.

I used to be a corporate coder and this would've taken me weeks, if not months, to build. AI knocked this out in a couple of hours. There was some back and forth to tweak it, but pretty amazing how it pieced it all together and knew how to make small tweaks to specific data/UI elements just from my prompts (which were intentionally vague at times).

 

[onocoffee]

This is excellent. Thank you, @4nthony!

I have been thinking about the 1010 lately, so this helps.

 

[MacBoy]

Love it, it’s amazing what was done in less than a day.

AI rocks for software developers when used with purposeful intention.

I do wonder what might be the dramatic change at the morning SCRUM standup meetings.

Me on a blocker: “dumb AI robot keeps spinning in recursive circles making things worse“

Project Manager: “Why is this a multi-day estimate? Can’t you type faster for the prompts to the AI robot“

 

[Vondawg]

Excuse the small stray…but for someone never in this kind of job, and with AI able to do this stuff in record time, what stops a company from hiring a capable, younger, (for starting pay) employee to us AI ? Or at least one to take the place of maybe 3 I would think a lot of senior coders would be threatened of this scenario …I don’t know (at all) maybe there is plenty of work in this field. Any thoughts @4nthony, as someone with alot of this experience ?

 

[mino]

Excuse the small stray…but for someone never in this kind of job, and with AI able to do this stuff in record time, what stops a company from hiring a capable, younger, (for starting pay) employee to us AI ? Or at least one to take the place of maybe 3 I would think a lot of senior coders would be threatened of this scenario …I don’t know (at all) maybe there is plenty of work in this field. Any thoughts @4nthony, as someone with alot of this experience ?

Nothing.

It is very effective in having the company which does that go successfully under.

The LLM-based "AI" of today is no AI in the sci-fi meaning of the term. There is no actual self-awareness nor consciousness involved whatsoever.

It is a /very/ sophisticated auto-complete. You need a human directing the 'agents' else you end up with effectively random gibberish.

A great servant but a horrible master. In the fire quip way.

 

[4nthony]

Here's a couple interesting articles on the topic. First one is long but worth the read. Second is more focused on coding.

Something Big Is Happening

A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

shumer.dev

Grief and the AI Split

TL;DR: AI-assisted coding is revealing a split among developers that was always there but invisible when we all worked the same way. I've felt the grief too—but mine resolved differently than I expected, and I think that says something about what kind of developer I've been all along.

blog.lmorchard.com

 

[Cheese]

Here's a couple interesting articles on the topic. First one is long but worth the read. Second is more focused on coding.

Something Big Is Happening

A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

shumer.dev

Thanks for that...the first article is definitely worth the time spent reading it.

 

[Vondawg]

Here's a couple interesting articles on the topic. First one is long but worth the read. Second is more focused on coding.

Something Big Is Happening

A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

shumer.dev

Grief and the AI Split

TL;DR: AI-assisted coding is revealing a split among developers that was always there but invisible when we all worked the same way. I've felt the grief too—but mine resolved differently than I expected, and I think that says something about what kind of developer I've been all along.

blog.lmorchard.com

Yes I thank you as well…the first one Ive seen part of somehow. Very useful in the right context

 

[mino]

I would just warn you folks that the 'first' guy is literally promoting you to buy/use the stuff he lives off.

Not discounting his observations of the state of affairs, which are mostly sound and well put. But do keep that in mind when assessing his "recommendations".

That ignores the fact a 'tech guy' would have a limited social awareness /this one certainly does/ which will see him overestimate the value of certain stuff as he looks at all jobs as "mechanistic tasks" which they are not in practice.

He lists lawyers a lot for a reason - in US lots of law practice is case research. This is not so outside the US/UK Common Law space and neither does this translate to other "white collar" professions necessarily.

In a view of a tech bro, you can replace the receiving nurse at a practice with an AI agent that will give "better" advice. Sure. On paper you can. In practice. No. Not even if there was actual AGI behind. You want the nurse to have an 'AI assistant' though.


I will make one critical observation:
To control a fire, you need to have dominance over it.

To be able to leverage AI, you need to be at least roughly at the level of the AI to be able to direct/guide it.
This increases your qualification requirements and will be a big problem once junior jobs go away. And this is why the consensus is that junior/simple cognitive jobs will be affected the most.