The thing with it being so good is that, as always, we know that within a year, this will appear pathetic. And what's now probably stressing lots of GPUs somewhere will just fly through Nvidia's new cards. And instead of prompting then waiting five minutes, it'll be 5 seconds.
I have this app called PhotoMaps. It's a simple idea, scan your whole hard drive for photos with geotags, and then put them on a map. Works great, but the libraries I use (MapControl in UWP) are being deprecated by Microsoft. So I want a new version,... so I asked Claude. And,...
I have built this app before, I am a good developer, that's hundreds of hours of really hard and focused work for me. And it's taken me a couple of hours of spare time today, not much focus, just playing around, making suggestions, testing things, making new suggestions.
It's a fully functioning Windows app. WinUI3, the latest framework. I did it all within Visual Studio, switched to Agent mode. Started from nothing, and it never saw my existing app. Amazingly good, and it'll be much better, much faster, much cheaper, in a year.
For now it's just software. But we've all seen the videos of the robots. We've all seen the self-driving cars. Surely we're looking at being able to say "build me a machine to paint all the walls in this house" and that machine gets built and then just gets on with it soon?