I work in an industry that is dominated by a monolith piece of software. We all use it and I’ll 90% of us hate it, either for its poor performance or bad business practices. It genuinely upsets me how many man-hours are wasted trying to understand why something doesn’t work or waiting for updates or recovering from a crash. It was originally made in the 80’s and has just bloated but by bit since then. A few people have tried and failed to make an alternative, although some have had limited success. I’d like to be behind the effort that either fixes or replaces this software. I get it’s a meme right now people are making unusable programs and half baked things, but dammit I’m making progress in a way I could never have imagined before and I’m learning so much about making large programs that will come in so much use later in my life. I can write decent Python without AI, but I’ve never made anything with a GUI and most everything I’ve made have been small tools, normally just a single python file. I spent a week just writing down what I wanted this program to do. How it should function. What the user should see and what the program needed to calculate. What was a priority and would could be sacrificed. Then I spent a week researching different frameworks and languages. Looking at examples of other software using similar or the same and understand what their users felt were the strengths or weaknesses of those softwares. I ended up with C++ & Qt as the core of my program, neither of which I’d ever used before. Without AI, it would have taken me a day to get it all installed and to be able to build anything within an IDE. Then it’d have taken me a week to create, split up, label, colour the bits of UI. Then a month to create the first feature of the software. Instead I’ve achieved all of these within a couple days, learnt loads and feel so empowered. There’s a strong chance this program will never see the light of day, but what I’ve learnt making it I can take into making a much smaller tool to solve a more specific issue I have, and instead of taking me weeks to learn the language and framework, then create the tool, I’'ll be able to achieve what I want with the help of AI in hours or days. It doesn’t matter to me that a software engineer could have made something better with or without AI. The point is I feel empowered to learn and create on my own, which makes me happy. submitted by /u/FlipFlopBipBopJr
Originally posted by u/FlipFlopBipBopJr on r/ClaudeCode
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