I am 60 in October, I have a couple of PyQt projects that were desktop apps, specialised tools I use for Electrical Engineering and Control/Safety Systems design and build.

So I decided that I wanted web apps, something that is probably beyond me in any reasonable time, if at all, if I was to code myself by hand.

For my coding AI "stack" I am now running OpenClaw sitting on top of Claude Code, I find the OpenClaw can prompt Claude Code better and keep it running for me without it stopping for stupid questions. Plus I have connected OpenClaw to my Whatsapp so I can ask how it is going or give instructions to the OpenClaw while not at the keyboard.

One app was a little complex with 35,000 loc, plus libraries etc. I reckon I had spent maybe 2500 hours on it over some years, but a significant part of that was developing the algorithm/workflow that it implemented - I only knew roughly what I wanted when I started, writing several to throw away at the beginning.

AI converted it to a webapp overnight, with a two sentance prompt, without intervention of any kind.

It took me another 15 minutes and a couple of small changes, mostly dependancies issues, and I had a working version of the same app that was literally 95%+ of the original, in terms of funcitonality and use.

I have a bunch of ideas for things I want to make that I probably never would have been able to otherwise.

I am just totally unable to fathom people that just make a blanket proclamation that AI is good for nothing. I can accept that it is not good for everything, it may cause some social disruption and the energy use is questionable, but improving, but not useful? Wake up.