(Forgive my awkward “AI‑style” English, I’m not a native speaker)
I’ve been coding in C++/MFC for decades, but never touched .NET or VB.NET.
Last week I tried something new: I asked ChatGPT to help me rebuild an old Excel reporting tool I originally wrote in MFC.
Here’s all I did:
Describe what I needed
Paste the code it gave me into Visual Studio
Hit run
In 30 minutes I had a complete Excel → Word → PDF automation workflow, including a small algorithm I thought would be too tricky for AI.
If I coded this myself in MFC? Easily 3 weeks.
When it worked, I was amazed… and honestly a bit terrified.
If AI can do this now, what happens 5 years from now?
I recorded the full 5‑minute process (real code running, no cuts, just sped up):
https://youtu.be/-mf_yOhOCfs
Have you ever let AI write an entire app for you?
Not selling anything. Just sharing what shocked me. Thank you.
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