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I get all the concerns, and I review all AI code at work and most AI code for personal projects. This one in particular though, not so much. I get that's frowned on but this is a small, limited scope, personal project. Not that I didn't pay attention, Claude did do some things in strange ways and I asked it to fix them quite often. But, conversely, I have zero rust experience, zero OpenXR experience, zero wgpu expericence, next to zero relevant Windows experience.
I'm guessing I spent about ~30 hours in total prompting Claude for each step. I started with "make a windows app that opens a window". Then I had it add wgpu and draw hello triangles. Then I had it add OpenXR and draw those triangles in VR. That actually took it some time as it tried to figure out how to connect a wgpu texture to the surface being drawn in OpenXR. It figured it out though, far far faster than I would have. I'd have tried to find a working example or given up.
I then sat on that for about a month and finally got back to it this weekend and zoomed through getting Claude to make it work. The only parts I did was make some programmer art icons.
I can post the prompts in the repo if anyone is interested, and assming I can find them.
Also in the last 2 weeks I've resurrected an old project that bit-rot. Claude got it all up to date, and fixed a bunch of bugs, and checked off a bunch of features I'd always wanted to add. I also had Claude write 2 libraries, a zip library, an rar decompression library, as well as refactor an existing zip decompression library to use some modern features. It's been really fun! For those I read the code much more than I did for this one. Still, "what I time to be alive"!
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