This really resonates with me. The ability to quickly writing one off, personalized apps really seems to be the strong suite of GenAI.
A month or so ago, I had claude write a visualizer for some data. There is an existing python viewer, but it bogs down & is painfully slow at the scale I need. So I asked Claude to port it to a compiled language. After 2 hours of iterating, I had the tool that I wanted.
Note that its throwaway, dumpster fire code. But for a one-off tool like that, its fine.
A month or so ago, I had claude write a visualizer for some data. There is an existing python viewer, but it bogs down & is painfully slow at the scale I need. So I asked Claude to port it to a compiled language. After 2 hours of iterating, I had the tool that I wanted.
Note that its throwaway, dumpster fire code. But for a one-off tool like that, its fine.