Doug Wilson

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116232825345321342

I’ve been playing around with Claude Code (don’t cut my head off Mastodon friends!) and have had the same experience as Craig — building hyper-specific apps/sites that are useful for only me and bring me a surprising amount of joy.

1. Built a simple shop page for my film to replace paying Shopify $30 per month

2. Built an app to pull in weather data and recommend what to wear for cold-weather cycling based on a spreadsheet of 300 past rides

3. Built a web app to display my Linotype research images from the past three years, organized by subjects

Mar 15 at 3:34pmWeb
Show threadChris ArmstrongMar 15
@onpaperwings I feel hopeful that there’s going to be an explosion of creative and weird web & software projects, 2010s-style, but this time they won’t need to figure out a business model to be sustainable.
Show threadTom WalkerMar 15

@onpaperwings Yeah, I don't like AI (especially AI art, blech) but can grudgingly say that it does OK at the 'custom dashboard' sort of case. Spaghetti code but it works.

I would *not*, however, trust it with your example #1, because it touches payments. AI routinely commits disastrous errors like (this is just one example) leaking secret API keys client side, which can leave you on the hook for massive amounts of fraudulent charges.

Show threadDoug WilsonMar 15
@tomw Appreciate the concern, but I’m simply integrating Stripe payment links for the actual processing. Used Claude to match my current layout, CSS, and make it responsive.