DeepSeek Kills Dreams, Qwen 2.5, Anime Art Builder, and My Astrology Project
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Hey y’all!
Good morning and it’s another day of AI-related slop, I mean, news. LOL. A ton of videos on DeepSeek today and a few thoughts on a small project I’m working on — more details at the very bottom. Would love your thoughts!
AI Netflix model looks janky but is good?
An app to bring language models to your phone. Open source.
AI music generator from lyrics and text.
DeepSeek FAQ and breakdown of what it is.
A good strategy (for Cline) but useful for others building apps via AI.
An example of using open source tools that are like OpenAI’s Operator.
5 ways that AI will change social marketing.
DeepSeek has some notable privacy settings.
Anime and AI builder. Sweet.
Is this an extinction even for VCs? Maybe not.
And that’s all folks! Have a great rest of the day!
※\(^o^)/※
— Summer
In other news, I’ve been spending a little bit of time every day to build more experience with AI-centric development tools. At this point I’ve been spending a lot my time in Cursor, partly because it’s provided good results so far and because I’m paying for it; I want to get the most of my money!
I’m building an astrology dating app to help folks learn more about their astrological sign, get horoscope readings, and to eventually connect with others.
It’s taken me a week or so to get a firm understanding of the tooling and to learn how to communicate effectively with the IDE. A few things that I’ve experienced:
I’m spending more time setting up the project before actually getting to building something and a lot more time than necessary to configure things to run locally.
The “environment” is not just API keys but also the “rules” that you want the IDE to follow, which, apparently is really important.
Sometimes it changes the entire design of the app. There’s some very erratic behavior that still needs to be massaged out.
Here’s a look at the app so far:
And here are the technologies I’m using:
Frontend:
React (JavaScript library for UI)
TypeScript (Type-safe JavaScript)
Next.js 14 (React framework) with App Router
Tailwind CSS (Utility-first CSS framework)
Backend / Framework:
Next.js App Router (for routing and API routes)
Vercel AI SDK (for handling AI streaming responses)
I presently don’t have any database or authentication (everything is stored locally) and I’m using the DeepSeek Reasoning API which has generated great results. Apparently they’ve closed down registrations so I’m grateful to have gotten in and been able to pay for some credits.
What do you think?
Is this something you’d check out? Perhaps I’ll deploy it to a test website and have some of you folks give it a whirl. I still have a lot of work on the starting UI / UX but I like what I’ve been able to put together so far.
( * ^ *) ノシ
