Comment by Bishonen88

3 days ago

Dunno. My 80k+ LOC personal life planner, with a native android app, eink display view still one shots most features/bugs I encounter. I just open a new instance let it know what I want and 5min later it's done.

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makeramen  3 days ago

Both can be true. I have personally experienced both.

Some problems AI surprised me immensely with fast, elegant efficient solutions and problem solving. I've also experienced AI doing totally absurd things that ended up taking multiple times longer than if I did it manually. Sometimes in the same project.

PacificSpecific  3 days ago

If you wouldn't mind sharing more about this in the future I'd love to read about it.

I've been thinking about doing something like that myself because I'm one of those people who have tried countless apps but there's always a couple deal breakers that cause me to drop the app.

I figured trying to agentically develop a planner app with the exact feature set I need would be an interesting and fun experiment.

  • Bishonen88  2 days ago

    same as you, I tried all sorts of apps. Todoist, habitica, fantastical, wunderlist, karakeep and more and more for all sorts of things. All are OK for most users, but none was GREAT for me. That's why I thought to give LLM's a proper spin. Get all the features I want, in the way I want. And anything I can come up with/see on the web over time, I can add myself within minutes instead of waiting for months for some 3rd party to perhaps add it. + No subscription fee.

    You can see my app in action here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119434

    While I can share the code and it might make a good foundation for forks, creating one from scratch with claude's $100 subscription will take ~2-3 weeks to get it into the state you see in the video. And that is me prompting the LLM for ~30-60 minutes most days of those 2-3 weeks.

    • PacificSpecific  2 days ago

      That's awesome and a real motivator for me to try it myself. Especially since my employer is giving me a ton of credits for exploration I haven't been maximising to the point of hitting a usage limit.

      Very cool and thanks for sharing.

therealdrag0  3 days ago

In 5 min you are one shotting smaller changes to the larger code base right? Not the entire 80k likes which was the other comments point afaict.

vasco  3 days ago

What is a personal life planner?

  • Bishonen88  3 days ago

    Todos, habits, goals, calendar, meals, notes, bookmarks, shopping lists, finances. More or less that with Google cal integration, garmin Integration (Auto updates workout habits, weight goals) family sharing/gamification, daily/weekly reviews, ai summaries and more. All built by just prompting Claude for feature after feature, with me writing 0 lines.

    • vasco  3 days ago

      Ah, I imagined actual life planning as in asking AI what to do, I was morbidly curious.

      Prompting basic notes apps is not as exciting but I can see how people who care about that also care about it being exactly a certain way, so I think get your excitement.