I know I'm not using BlackboxAI to its full potential, but what's something that I'm REALLY missing out on?
I have now built a news website and I'm working on an AI voice answering service.
The way I work is quite simple, since I know a little RoR but I'm still learning to code, I generally just go a few steps at a time.
I make a prompt for Blackbox AI, I have my LLMs I prefer to use, I tell it what I want to do and... it does it. Pretty simple stuff.
I sometimes will add Blackbox AI rules like “hey, whenever we push to Heroku make sure to also push to GitHub so that I'm always in sync if I switch devices” or “I'm still learning to code so please explain what you do as you do it meticulously but also keep it concise.”
Little things like that I have a good bit more, but I'm mostly just wondering what I'm missing out on.
I enjoy the back-and-forth process; it helps me learn. I just use Agent mode, and I make sure that I approve changes made as they go, but for the most part I trust the process. Whenever I make big changes, I do a lot of personal testing like clicking around my site and making sure everything is still functional in all features.
I'm sure I waste a lot of time that can be automated, but I'm kind of just enjoying the process and maybe building slower than most would with the same resources. Still, I see tons of progress and improvements.
So yeah is there something I'm really missing out on by being so simple-minded about all this? Even this process feels like a bit of a miracle compared to how long it used to take me to get anything working. I’d just give up before even reaching an MVP in the past.
Posted Oct 10, 2025, 7:19 PM UTC