Steve Troughton-SmithFeb 21

Turns out Codex is just as proficient at writing for the Windows App SDK, so I jumpstarted it with the existing unfinished UWP version of Pastel, and, like before, pointed it at the existing Swift codebase to begin porting it piece by piece to Windows 11. This is by no means a one-shot, I am slowly and methodically recreating the functionality of the Mac app.

Of course, there is no native version of Codex for Windows, so I'm running the Linux version under WSL, and Visual Studio 2022 to compile

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Watching Codex recreate in seconds things that took me months, maybe even years, to implement the way I wanted 🥲
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We are actually deeply cooked
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithFeb 22
Just ploughing through this Windows port, with some pretty complex bespoke UI
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Editing flow; you don't even have to squint to see how a finished app might work. Something that I would have had to take months to build at the expense of the iOS version, done in a night's free time after a full workday doing more-productive things. I always wanted to finish Pastel on Windows, but I had reluctantly accepted that I could never invest that kind of time — save for some kind of catastrophe that left me excluded from the Apple ecosystem. Now? Trivial.
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithFeb 22

⭐️ Some more shots of all the working aspects of this Pastel for Windows project, using .NET 8.0 and the Windows App SDK (and Community Toolkit), ported from the iOS codebase and my original UWP prototype by OpenAI's Codex 5.3.

It's not a full app yet, but it's dangerously close.

It's hard not to think that agentic programming, or agentic porting, could have outright saved Windows Phone, had this all been possible a decade ago

Show threadJames Clarke He/Him
@stroughtonsmith very nice. Are u going to ship?
Mar 7 at 6:46pmWeb
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithMar 7
@Clarkezone it would have to do something worthwhile, first