Dec 2025: We use a commercial 3D modeling software to build refinery. There was no license dashboard in this ancient piece of junk. Fortunately license server provided verbose live status report through a command line. I ask ChatGPT to ingest the logs into a Django web application and generate weekly/monthly/yearly usage dashboard, and It one shorted the whole Backend + Frontend in 4 to 5 shot. There were around 10 regexes just in the log parsing batch script. I was totally speechless. Encouraged by the success of, I went ahead and made the dashboard for 3 more software in the same Django app. Released to peers by evening, feedback incorporated in 2 days to integrate Name, Employee Number, IP Address sync etc in 2 days. And it’s been live for 5 months, actively being used by all coadmins, even management has it bookmarked, to help with department redistribution. Making this thing without AI would have taken well over a month of “learning new stuff”, or paying external consultants too much. Even head of IT replied back, it was awesome. ;)

2nd , June 2026: I asked codex to something fairly complex before going to morning bath!, which would have taken me more than a week of learning DirectX12 API nuances and such things, 20 min latter, I return to task exactly completed with code changes in 5 different files. Build complete without any error. OMG. Free Quota over for whole month! I subscribed by the evening.

However the good part, what I had planned for 5 years, now looks like doable in 6 months. Looking forward to real use by the end of this year.

Ref: https://github.com/ramshankerji/Vishwakarma

Sometime you need to go where many customers ahem enterprise are.

As a developer of an engineering application, windows is the way to go 1st hand. It would have been easier to adopt one more application on the daily driver enviornment. Till than, I am on GitHub only.

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1 blast can be expensively guarded againt. However designing anything above ground for sustained barges is practically/commercially prohibitive. Underground is only option.

PS: Civil Engineer. Designed few of those Gas explosion resistant control rooms.

Contrary to pre AI era, one of my close relative he has become very good "understand / write the requirement" guy. HN may be dominated by >1x engineers, another revolution is happening at lower /bulk end of spectrum as well.

One more thing I try is give same prompt once in a while to ChatGPT/Gemini/Grok. Than take the 2 out of 3 ideas forward.

All leading AI seems to have some blind spot. Like some kind of intricsic character. 1 will completely overlook some particular bug while finding other excellent bugs and edge cases.

Getting the code through all 3 before commiting has shown excellent results to me.

https://mv.ramshanker.in/

Github: https://github.com/ramshankerji/Vishwakarma

You are an inspiration. I will remember this when I grow older. Just wanted to say this, I am 1/2 your age, and I am sure there are 1/3 or even 1/4 people here. ;)

Think of I beams, all major countries have national standards of shapes and sizes. There are many "devil in detail" nuances.

So, giving it a go myself. If not for others, at least for my own itch. This is one aspect of open source.

Personal Context: I am a civil enginer, and our requirement from CAD softwares are a lot simpler than Mechanical Engineering. Here on HN, whenever I see people discussing CAD, its the mechanical version of parts and 3d printing.

Shameless Plug: I have decided to try building my own! Over a long enough timeline, it is doable, including the UI/UX part.

https://mv.ramshanker.in/