I Was using a windows app that was only available from the Microsoft store that did a very specific set of things for a kiosk at work and the computer we were using it on crashed so I needed to reinstall the app on the new computer and the app is just gone from the store. I spent a few hours trying to find a replacement and even emailed the developer to see if I could get an installer or something but then I decided to see if I could get ChatGPT to write one for me.
I'm not a coder at all beyond some basic html and css so I didn't have high hopes but I asked if it could help and it told me to download codex so I did. Then I told it to ask me all the questions it needed to understand exactly what I need and don't start coding until i explicitly told it to.
Then I gave it the basic idea of what I wanted the program to do and it asked me about 50 questions in total and then I told it to go ahead and start coding over it seemed like it had a handle on what I wanted.
I had it do 3 or 4 small revisions to the UI after it was done and then it packaged it into an installer and I sent it over to the kiosk remotely so it's ready to go tomorrow.
Right at 2 hours from start to end with zero experience at all and it works better than the app I'd been using previously, plus I can make changes to it as needed now.
My mind's fucking blown. This isn't a hugely complicated app which is why I thought it would be a good test case but it's really saving my ass and I didn't have anyone else to share my excitement with at this time of night so I decided to post here
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