I had one of those shower epiphanies a couple mornings ago... And I fed it into a couple LLMs while I was playing a video game (taking some time over the holidays to do that), and by the afternoon I had that idea as working code: ~4500 LOC with that many more in tests.
People keep saying "I want LLMs to take out the laundry so I can do art, not doing the laundry while LLMs do art." This is an example of LLMs doing the coding, so I can rekindle a joy of gaming, which feels like it's leaning in the right direction.
For me I can use LLMs to go from "hmm, I wonder if..." to a working MVP while I take the dogs for a walk.
Either I launch a task before I go, or start one with Claude Code Web on my phone.
Today's project was a DVD/Bluray library project I've been thinking of since the app I used before went from buy once to subscription-based.
5-10 minutes of writing the initial prompt and now I have a self-hosted web application that lets me take pics of the front and back cover of a DVD on my shelf and it'll feed it to an LLM to detect what movie it is and use an existing (also LLM-engineered) project of mine to enrich the data from TMDB/OMDB.
About an hour total and now I just need to put on a podcast, sit next to my DVD collection and grab pics of each for processing.
My place for that is in the shower.
I had one of those shower epiphanies a couple mornings ago... And I fed it into a couple LLMs while I was playing a video game (taking some time over the holidays to do that), and by the afternoon I had that idea as working code: ~4500 LOC with that many more in tests.
People keep saying "I want LLMs to take out the laundry so I can do art, not doing the laundry while LLMs do art." This is an example of LLMs doing the coding, so I can rekindle a joy of gaming, which feels like it's leaning in the right direction.