[peab]

I keep seeing this question asked, and I don't understand. Have you tried it? It's so easy to build useful things for myself now.

I've been able to build things that I otherwise would not have been able to build, in the free time that I have: - a VST audio plugin

- a wedding website with RSVP functionality

- a relaxing game for my wife

At work, I've been able to build much more than I would have been capable of in the past. I'm a backend eng, and it allows me to build much much nicer frontends than I've ever been able to do in the past.

And before you tell me that the code is crap - it doesn't matter! It may or may not be good code, but it works and serves it's purpose very well. Anyways, I'm I'm not launching a rocket, or putting software into cars.

[MeetingsBrowser]

> Have you tried it?

I've used agentic tooling at work for almost a year now, to great affect.

Tools are helpful, but in my experience they are not to a point where building things useful software is easy or simple.

Most of the things I have seen or heard described are neat demos that someone might play with a few times before forgetting about.

Of the projects you mentioned above, how long did you spend building them relative to how long they've been regularly used? Are you using them on a regular basis? If so, are they published somewhere for other people to use as well?

[gedy]

I think he's talking about professionally, not various hobby ideas.

[fragmede]

Professionally, even if GP was to break NDA, it would still take an essay to even begin to describe where they are in order to describe what they're working on, in order to say this thing I'm building, it's being built faster with the help of AI. So the two things are one, hobby projects. Those are greenfield, starting from 0 lines of code. AI is good at that, everyone should try it! The unknown unproven question, thus, is limited to "I have this decades old codebase, can AI actually help?" I am not here to answer that question right now, merely to pose the more specific question you're implying.

[sunnybeetroot]

I mean Bun was rewritten in rust in 6 days so yeah it can help.

[peab]

I mean, Claude itself has been built by people using Claude. Is that not enough of an example?

[MeetingsBrowser]

claude code is developed by a large team of people being paid among the highest salaries in the industry. ~$500-750k/year according to levels.fyi

I wouldn't count that as evidence that AI tooling makes it easy to build useful software without much effort.