[sriku]

I just spent a day resurrecting an old iOS music app of mine that got kicked out of the app store because I didn't make time to keep up with changes and devices, and some music students kept asking "when is it going to get back on the app store?".

I used Claude Code in "do whatever you need to to modernize this code" mode for a bit and then went about correcting the things it got wrong. Many changes made were mechanical and useful and a few incorrect. It botched up some core code big time with changes that didn't make any sense, and I had to revert and micromanage changes to that. In all, it was a win for a day's work during the weekend.

Approx $30 well spent, but I give my thanks to the OSS community whose code made Claude Code possible and wish I could've split that with them.

The fact that software systems are architected with tons of mini languages means LLMs can be of use to select from the space of possibilities without me having to learn incidental details I don't want to spend time or my neurons on.