When the Limitation Changes

[brian]

As my comfort with AI grows, so do the projects I assign it. In the last week, AI has been adding features far faster than I ever had time to do in the past. The limitation is no longer my coding free time... it is now the ideas I have for enhancing the site. Every feature added required investigation and follow-ups before functioning as intended. I believe skill and know-how are required to validate that AI has not made a mistake. As AI often tells me: "You are right for saying that."

Weather: Added heat index alerts, wave forecasts - if you're close to a large body of water, 3 hr rain forecasts, allergy forecast, more precise caching - using the Location finder is more accurate than entering your city by name. An optional interactive radar adds full pan and zoom, higher resolution, and international support. Initial data loads are higher with the new radar. Incremental loads are smaller. Load the map one time, and only the radar data from that point on.

Site theme: All buttons and formatting have been aligned to make the different components on this site feel more cohesive than ever.

News: The backend function to add news feeds had been broken... now it works. It adds icons, allows for easy customization, has drag and drop to rearrange the feeds. The front end has a slider to determine how many articles to display, giving more granular control. I increased the news feed list from 24 to 48 hours, improving the amount of searchable news. 10 new technology-focused feeds were added to the news system. They are enabled by default. Click the Settings button to turn off any feeds you do not want to see.

When the limitation changes, so does the game.