Comment by sethammons
2 days ago
The other day, i was fed up with my mac webcam software. I just needed to fix being washed out. Every piece of software I found cost money, several were a monthly subscription.
Over lunch, Claude made a minimal toolbar app that lets me adjust down the brightness.
Often, you don't need battle tested. And you don't need a bunch of features.
The ai could have shipped my video feed somewhere I suppose, if I were unable to read its code.
Becomes a problem when the next version of Mac OS changes the api, and you have to dig up the code, install dependencies, recompile and fix it. Meanwhile potentially breaking something else.
No, you have an LLM do all that again.
Even with an LLM you still have to kick it off, which is mental effort.