A non-technical employee of a client vibe-coded an app and I was asked to review and deploy it. It was okay, not bad at all. No serious issues. At the same time, me feeding a whole PDF of feedback from a client - screenshots and such - into Claude, and it fixed everything after 7 hours of reproducing and fixing things mostly unattended, creating a bunch of MRs with fixes. Most fixes were good, some were obviously not…
Yup it's gotten good enough that it mostly works (thats why i built my startup around this idea)
When the barriers to actualizing a laundry list of “wouldn’t it be cool to try” dropped was that “oh”. Probably added the expletive when it helped me run headless Blender to rebake texture map and uv unwrap a phone-scanned brown paper grocery bag just so I could find the % surface area covered by ink. It’s more addictive, some might justify as useful, than social media. That is the uh oh.
My furnace went out during the 2025 holiday and I couldn't get an appointment with a repair person for 2 days. It was getting very cold in my house so I went into my attic and made several videos of the furnace attempting to start and gave it to gemini. It diagnosed the issue immediately and had me spin one of the components (a small exhaust fan) while the furnace tried to fire. It came on immediately. I had to do th…
I have a similar story with my washing machine repair. I went through 2 service technicians not being able to diagnose it. Gpt did it and I told the 3rd what to do and it worked.
For me it was Suno, not any of the coding tools. I prompted it to write a song about my family's little dog, told it a few things about the dog, and it came back with a K-pop-style anthem that had a super catchy melody and lyrics that made my wife and me laugh out loud. Writing code to spec is one thing, but creating art was always supposed to be what separated us from machines. (I suppose I need to preemptively ackn…
My sister's husband came over yesterday to show me photos if their recent travels. Normally it would be a boring slideshow of camper van trips to France and Aachen. Nowadays he produces a video with a tiny camera. All music self-produced with Suno, all videos professionally cut. And then he told me when he was invited to his local filmmaker association to lecture about the new AI assisted video making. Because of the old music all of his youtube videos got strikes, with Suno no more. Everybody can now produce videos easily. I even saw a totally AI generated doc about the Iran massacres made for $2000.
A non-technical employee of a client vibe-coded an app and I was asked to review and deploy it. It was okay, not bad at all. No serious issues. At the same time, me feeding a whole PDF of feedback from a client - screenshots and such - into Claude, and it fixed everything after 7 hours of reproducing and fixing things mostly unattended, creating a bunch of MRs with fixes. Most fixes were good, some were obviously not…
Yup it's gotten good enough that it mostly works (thats why i built my startup around this idea)
It’s interesting though because the client’s dev team basically refused to look at it, dismissing it as insecure and such.
I realized that the software he had made was actually better than what I would have made, because he understood the problem better than I ever will, Because it was his job to understand the problem, not to write code.
It was the first time I realized that AI can totally replace me in my traditional job of trying to understand client’s wants and needs and convert them into an application by writing some code.
I knew Claude was powerful and spent months creating skills prompts etc but this guy did it from scratch.
I bought an Alesis QS8.1 super cheap in perfect condition (was a top grade digital piano/synth in the 90s). and then i realized that ALL of the software (which i collected from defunct websites and archived on github) related to it was ancient and after a while of getting tired of using WINE every single time i decided i wanted a cross platform modern equivalent that did everything that several of these different pro…
Related story, while applying a firmware update to my Kawai CA49 piano, I bricked it due to flashing the wrong file (The process was broken, and I got desperate and tried something stupid, which bricked the piano). Claude walked me through looking for signs of life, and since OTA from the phone app wasn't working for me, it downloaded the Kawai Android APK, decompiled the Java, figured out the hardcoded key used for…
I can't imagine where we are headed. You understand every step of what it did and can appreciate the complexity but it'll only take a few generations for this to become something like magic to the tech priests beseeching the machine spirits for blessings
Had some unique concert audio recordings which had gotten corrupted when I moved the files during a backup. I had tried looking at the files and trying to recover them. It felt like they had the data but no software could play them.
Sat on them for 5 yrs. Finally decided to try if AI tools could help. Tool Copilot 20mins and a lot of mucking around with hex dumps. First couple of times it got a semi working solution (only first few seconds of a file were playable). Finally managed to recover all the files.
Seeing DeepSeek reasoning tokens generating faster than I could read. It was the first time I realized it could "think" way faster than us, and all the relative consequences. I was already leveraging the tool, but at that point realized it wasn't really an open choice anymore.
For me it was right at the beginning. They said it was a dungeon game. It would describe a room, etc, and I would take some action. But I thought that this dungeon was built in some intricate database. But then I told it that I wanted to leave, got to an inn, where I flirted with the bar waitress, and soon we were watching the sunset in some meadow. As cheesy as that was, it was then that I went "oh shit" this is a machine that can respond to language with language in a way that simulated actual understanding and intelligence, concepts and schema, and everything else, and I knew then that the world would never be the same again. People here talk about the crazy things they solved with AI, and I get that...but the first time I actually talked to a machine and didn't feel like it was either random gibberish or scripted, but dynamic and responsive. The first alien I ever met, and he knew my language.