https://devmindscape.com/tags/gritcode/Recent content in Gritcode on DevMindscapeHugoen-usTue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devmindscape.com/post/gritcode-intro/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devmindscape.com/post/gritcode-intro/<p><img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="Scrabble tiles spelling DeepSeek — AI concept" title="Photo by Markus Winkler on Pexels"></p> <p>I was first exposed to AI coding when ChatGPT launched a few years ago. I made a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rsFl62We_EY">short</a> on my channel — ChatGPT building a simple wxWidgets app — and even then it was mind-blowing. A machine writing real C++ GUI code from a plain English description. It felt like a party trick that might someday be useful.</p> <p>Fast forward to early 2026. Claude Opus 4.5. I was genuinely stunned — it reasoned about architecture, debugged subtle issues, wrote entire features from a paragraph. Watching it build a functional video editor with OpenGL, Dear ImGui, and libav was an eye-opening experience. I documented that journey <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@devmindscapestreams/streams">live on stream</a> so that nobody can deny it can build useful, complex applications without any manual coding.</p>