Comment by sieste
8 hours ago
Related anecdote: My 12yo son didn't like the speed cubing online timer he was using because it kept crashing the browser and interrupted him with ads. Instead of googling a better alternative we sat down with claude code and put together the version of the website that behaved and looked exactly as he wanted. He got it working all by himself in under an hour with less than 10 prompts, I only helped a bit putting it online with github pages so he can use it from anywhere.
I don't think people are grasping yet that this is the future of software, if by no metric other than "most software used is created by the user".
Outside of small niches, no-one wants to maintain and host their own software.
This is not the future of software.
The average user doesn't even know what a file is
Turns out that knowing what a plain text file is will be the criterion that distinguishes users who are digitally free from those locked into proprietary platforms.
Wont happen.
The average user just has no interest in building things.
Many parents are extremely interested in quickly building digital tools for their kids (education and entertainment) that they know are free from advertising, social media integration, user monitoring etc.
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Which is why they will use AI to do the building...
So... The future is like the past?
That would be good news, but I doubt most people will do things like that.
>most software used is created by the user
You really believe that?
Yes, because the current software paradigm (a shed/barn/warehouse full of tools to suite every possible users every possible need) doesn't make sense when LLMs can turn plain English into a software tool in the matter of minutes.
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That wasn't being claimed, just proposed as the direction we're headed.
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> I don't think people are grasping yet that this is the future of software
What about this is new?
Sitting down with a child to teach them the very basics of javascript in an hour? Trivial.
Needing Claude to do it is kind of embarassing, if anything.
Out of curiosity, did you also implement scramble support? Or just the timing stuff?
yes. claude added a suggested random scramble (if that's what you mean?), also running average of 5/12/100, local storage of past times on first iteration, my son told it to also add a button for +2s penalties and touch screen support.
... So at no point in this did anyone even question why it should be a website?
Because now that website is fully cross-platform and sandboxed with no practical downside
"use it from anywhere" was important, and I don't think there's an easier way than a freely hosted static website.