On agents:

Agents like Claude Code and Gemini are making silent revolution right now.
They’re coding assistants with access to your files, your screen, your browser (with MCP, Model Context Protocol). Node.js apps anyone can install and use.
And you don’t realize how powerful they are until you try:

Here 3 instances of Claude Code working on 3 different tasks at once while I’m overseeing. They’re converting my old codebase, making reports on obvious errors and bad decisions, suggesting range of solutions, converting things, building and resolving build errors and then testing, and doing that in loops until they achieve the result.

Sometimes they write incredibly dumb code, sometimes lay very well organized logical bombs, so it doesn’t looks like “an instant holy grail of coding” at all.
For instance if you forget to add “don’t make up things, you need to make sure it’ll work, you can search web for examples if unsure, make a plan first, ask me questions”, LLM will literally invent code for you – something that “looks like code, but doesn’t work in fact”. You have to be very specific. ))

Luckily, the days when you needed to copy/paste pieces between the browser and shell and vice versa are gone:

– Both Claude and Gemini have access to your OS (and latest Claude Code can even work on Windows, previously it was just Linux/WSL)

– Meaning they can run commands and parse results

– Meaning they can build your app, run a test, parse the results, make corrections, build app, run test again, make changes, etc, etc.

– For me it takes minutes to make a test. A bit more to make it compatible with some framework – I need to check docs, examples, find a reference somewhere. LLM takes seconds to create a test, run it, parse the result and diagnose the problem.

Over the last 4 days I reworked 15 years worth of old code, megatons of MEL, maya.cmds, C++, 22 plug-ins, build system for both Windows and Linux. Still a lot of work to do, but speedup is simply unbeatable. The way software is being developed is changing right now, these few months.

But this is not the end:

– It can control your OS, tune it up. If something doesn’t work, you can just spawn another terminal and ask: “hey, take a look around this Windows11 system, something is wrong, desktop is blank”. Or “hey I’m on Rocky Linux 9.6 and AppArmor preventing me from running k8s, could you take a look around and make a plan on how to fix that?” – instead of hours of googling on “why it’s not working”.

– It can parse a folder of information about you and prepare you a company-specialized ATS-compatible resume in seconds.

– Any information-related task can be processed automatically (if you give instructions precise enough).

How to install:
winget install -e –id OpenJS.NodeJS
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
npm install -g @google/gemini-cli

I will post some results and demos today/tomorrow/this week.