Comment by manoji

> Think of anything you wanted to build but didn’t. You tried to home in on some > first steps. If you’d been in the limerent phase of a new programming > language, you’d have started writing. But you weren’t, so you put it off, for a > day, a year, or your whole career.

> I can feel my blood pressure rising thinking of all the bookkeeping and Googling and dependency drama > of a new project. An LLM can be instructed to just figure all that shit out. > Often, it will drop you precisely at that golden moment where shit almost works, and development means > tweaking code and immediately seeing things work better. That dopamine hit is why I code.

This is me . Just yesterday I finished something I have been putting off for 2 years. I maintain 2 mobile phones one because of work and i needed a way to see sms messages from the other phone. I wanted to write a simple andoird app that reads incoming messages and saves them somewhere for me to use for OTP's and other stuff. For the longest time I wanted to build something like this for myself but I have been putting it off just because of all the weird issues i had been getting with mobile development. A couple of days ago since I had some time and I fired up gemini and asked it to write me a simple flutter app for and to save the messages to supabase and voila it was amazing . With some help and some tweaking I have a fully functioning mobile app on andoird , a small tauri application on desktop to read the messages nicely formatted in a data table without much coding on my part at all. Truly remarkable.