Musing 90

This year has already been full of surprises. One of the biggest for me has been a slowly growing fascination with JavaFX.

Perhaps because of AI making it easier to turn out the massive amounts of boilerplate, but lately I’ve found myself wanting to legitimately build apps with it (or Kotlin multiplatform).

Which is interesting for me, both because AI code is notoriously mixed in quality metrics, but also because current AI feels almost like its tailored for the “here’s 500 lines of boilerplate” that UIwork always turns out to be.

Which in a lot of ways, is the promise of AI fulfilled - let the bot handle the part you don’t like and focus on the parts you do.

But another part was how easy I found it to build a custom UI for the AWS web console using only Claude/ChatGPT. The UI was literally nothing but a wrapper around the AWS SDK with a few of my gripes fixed (and some other small QoLimprovements) but it really was the first time I felt the same type of joy when I first had programming click for me.

Not quite the same, but I definitely better understood the emotional attachment many people have for AI’s acceleration.