Comment by throwaway58670

I made an app using Win32 in Golang. It controls my monitors' brightness and "true-tones" them to match the sun cycle via DDC/CI. It has autostart, global hotkeys, persistent settings, sits in the tray, silent auto updates etc.

The hard parts were seeded by Claude Code. Happily maintaining and modifying it for close to 3 months now. Just a data point, especially about not needing C++.