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Years ago I stumbled across a basic version of this concept and it stuck with me. I knew if I was ever going to take on such a project, it would need to be flawless, but without coding experience it was just another idea that would never happen. By the end of 2024, as AI coding tools exploded everywhere, I finally had a way to make it real.

I started from zero knowledge and spent months collaborating with AI agents as a learning experience. Every pixel and every function went through me. The AI translated what I asked for into code, but every decision was human. I didn't use existing OS frameworks because the goal was learning how basic coding languages worked while also developing my skills with AI collaboration. Apart from basic libraries like xp.css and paint.js, it's all original code.

The result is a fully functional Windows XP recreation running in your browser. Complete experience with sounds, animations, and working applications. Even works properly on mobile, which required rebuilding everything to maintain the authentic feel without becoming unusable on touchscreens.

This project taught me more about coding and AI collaboration than I ever expected. Would love to hear your thoughts on the execution and any feedback on the technical approach.

It’s neat: I like it a lot actually.

But the problem with you billing yourself as a graphic designer and reimplementing Windows XP is that you’re copying a design that already exists rather than showcasing your own design skills, so I can’t immediately tell how good a designer you are[0].

I can look at your projects under the IE icon, which gives more of an impression, but some of the visuals there do look decidedly AI generated, which isn’t super-encouraging.

The UX is also weird. For example, the back/forward history controls behave like carousel controls through your portfolio, whereas when I hit back/previous I expect to be taken back to the menu of projects.

If you applied to me for a job with this, would I interview you?

Yes, I would, simply because I can see you’ve put a lot of effort in and created something high quality. But I’d have some reservations because of the concerns I’ve raised above and, in particular, I’d want to dig in to how user-centred your approach is, because that isn’t really demonstrated here.

Sorry if this sounds discouraging. What you’ve done is cool, and I like it, and it would certainly get you a foot in the door of many interview processes, but that will be when the real work of showcasing your skills begins.

I hope that makes sense?

[0] Literally, I could do this, and I suck at design. It’s very similar to the process of implementing a design passed to me by a UX Designer, which I’ve done loads of times.

3 days agoby bartread

> A faithful XP-inspired interface, custom-built to showcase my [...] attention to detail.

Here goes:

1. "Welcome" on the login screen should be lowercase

2. Balloon is too high (should touch the icon), close icon is too small (should be roughly the same height as the balloon title)

3. About Me is missing the scrollbar on Firefox

4. Wrong gradient for "Social Links"

5. Start menu should have a shadow

6. In My Projects, two tiles are loading forever

7. Windows that cannot be maximized, but can be minimized, should have all three buttons, with the middle one disabled

8. Paint did not have the Windows logo in the corner. It would be better to show the JSPaint menu bar to make things like Undo accessible, and the JSPaint authors deserve attribution.

9. "Git Co-pilot" is not a thing, as Git ≠ GitHub. (On the XP project page.)

If I were making something like this, I would probably skip the boot and login screens (certainly would not require user interaction; indeed, XP would automatically log you in if you had a single passwordless user), and show "About Me" on startup, so that potential clients don’t give up before they learn more about you.

3 days agoby Kwpolska

In general, it is even smoother than the real Windows XP. Kind of a magnetizing experience, and I do not know why. There is something attractive in this idea in terms of UI/UX, aside from the obvious nostalgia.

Another interesting aspect of this particular implementation is that it blends naturally with a browser tab hierarchy, it does not try to overrule it, it just blends in. Probably thanks to a distinctive taskbar, or maybe it is due to the startup screen/login/sound that set up a distinctive boundary "you are here now, and this is a friendly place to be".

3 days agoby garganzol

hey haha I tried to post this a few weeks ago but my post didn't go through - i'm glad you guys are enjoying it!

edit: I'm new here! let me get some of that sweet sweet karma!

4 days agoby mitchivin

It’s interesting, I’ll give you that, but feels entirely like the wrong approach.

I opened the page before reading your post, and what immediately jumped out at me is that you say you’re a graphic designer but then you’re copying someone else’s old design which isn’t even that good.

The second thing I noticed was the obvious AI icon for the login, and that hovering on it makes it move weirdly. I haven’t used Windows XP in over two decades but don’t remember it doing that. It looks like an error.

At that point, I started losing confidence. You are supposed to be a graphic designer but are obviously using AI to design graphics and I assumed you would be doing the same for the code.

The resume as a fake PDF is cramped and zooming in feels like a poor solution.

Same thing with your projects, I can’t view them properly because they’re shoved in a tiny window for no reason. Plus, two of them are just loading animations, and it’s hard to understand if they’re broken or will ever load.

Then I finally read your post. You say you had no coding experience and used AI agents and “every decision was human”, but if you don’t know how to code, most of the decisions will have been made by the LLM even if you instructed it in particular ways. Do you feel confident regarding what you ostensibly learned and that you’d be able to reimplement most of the project yourself from scratch?

Again, it is interesting and a cool project, but it’s not particularly well-made or original¹ and I feel that as a portfolio actually does you a disservice by showcasing your skills in the worst possible light.

¹ https://win32.run

3 days agoby latexr

This isn't meant to critique you personally. Your post just sparked the thought. But it points to a deeper, systemic issue with AI collaboration in coding, design, writing, and beyond.

The core tension is between replication and creation. Yes, some things will always resemble what came before. A hard-boiled detective novel usually has a corpse or two, a bottle, and a wisecrack. But the artistry and work are in what you do with the formula. Take Les Roberts, for example. He wrote detective novels, sure, but he set them in Cleveland, gave them local color, and turned Northeast Ohio into a character. That's authorship. That's presence.

You can absolutely ask an AI to plot the story. But the soul, that point, is what you bring to it: the choices, the voice, the friction.

What gives me pause here is that I don't feel that presence. The project looks good, but it feels like Windows XP. Smooth, clean, and generic. I can't tell what this person's actual skills are. From the post, they clearly put in real time and effort. They learned something and got it working. But what I see is replication. Competent, yes. But flat, in my opinion.

If I were in their shoes, someone who would struggle to replicate this, I'd still treat that as step one.

Okay, I copied it. Now, what can I improve? What parts of the interface feel off? Where could I take a risk? Then, show the before and after.

So here's the long-winded point.

Why stop at imitation? Why not go further? Why not show that you can replicate something, build on it, shape it, and own it?

That's the more profound concern I have about AI collaboration. How do you show your work in a world of infinite templates and effortless iteration? How do you show your soul, or if you are too shy to bare your soul, at least a differentiator, that means you should be hired?

(I say this with the absolute irony that I used Grammarly to ensure this collection of words somewhat resembled a coherent thought. In the words of Dirty Harry, "A man has to know his limitations."[0]) ---

[0] Probably a misquote.

3 days agoby mkovach

I love this. As a former XP user, here are some pedantic inaccuracies you've got:

- The taskbar tabs are slightly off from how they looked in the real XP (must be the borders? It's the same issue with the windows as well).

- The close/maximize/minimize buttons never had hover transitions

- By default, desktop icons didn't have any hover effects in the real XP

- I'm surprised you didn't recreate the XP mouse cursor!

- IE6:

    - The address bar didn't show progress
    - The buttons in the toolbar at the top never had any transition effect on hover

3 days agoby m4houk

Pretty cool stuff.

Every time I see it, a part of me misses the styling of Windows XP. It was kind of the only well-regarded windows that tried to actually be fun; the fact that there was a little dog mascot in the search results, the fact that the bar on the bottom kind of looks like a Fisher Price toy, Clippy!

I kind of miss when professional programs were allowed to be goofy.

As a side note, I really like your avatar; has kind of a Simpsons/Bob's Burgers vibe that I find appealing.

3 days agoby tombert

It's very cool, but I think two issues keep this from being truly delightful. First of all, it doesn't really feel like a computer, little things like typing "dir" in the command line could be a great little interaction, but it's not supported. I'd try to make it more fun to use and not just pretty to look at.

The other thing is, I think the portfolio doesn't really match the quality of the website you vibe coded. This is actually a pretty bad sign that your own work is not as good as something you can do with AI (human assisted or not). The website is pretty high quality, so browsing through extremely simple assets just feels out of place.

Overall it's a good project.

3 days agoby magic_hamster

To me, the CRT effect looks like an early LCD (TFT panel) one. CRT monitors picture did not look like made of dots from what I can remember (maybe not for all monitors). Except maybe the Trinitron ones.

Great site, thanks for nostalgia!

3 days agoby zx8080

This is really nice work, and it does showcase your skills, ability to learn, persistence and attention to detail.

I disagree with others who complain that either the design was copied or a few little details are not exactly the same as the original – I don't think that's the point here.

Congrats!

3 days agoby ftruzzi

This was so nostalgic... I really like it and I am very impressed by how well it performs. Regardless of wether the design is original or not if you implemented this from the ground up and used something else as inspiration this is still a clear showcase of your skills. I think this could be considered as the equivalent of looking on StackOverflow for backend programming solutions.

Congrats!

1 day agoby Obscurely

Wow, this is cool!

You should open source this and let other people contribute and build apps that work inside this sim. I would love to build a version of our browser into this. (https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS)

3 days agoby felarof

This is wonderful. You should be proud. It's a fun recreation and it was fun to use. Back when I was using XP (2004-2010), I had a 19" black CRT monitor. Once I got a laptop, it became a second monitor. I got whatever the family didn't want and the few things I scrounged from used computer stores. In 2010, I jumped to Windows 7. The theming of Windows XP always reminds me of seeing it for the first time, how colourful and inviting it looked.

3 days agoby _-_-__-_-_-

This is really good. I’ve seen recreations before but the attention to detail made this delightful to use. Agree with some of the other points that you’re recreating a design that already exists but it’s evident you spent some effort on this even with the help of AI (which was disclosed in the AUTHOR command in command prompt, thank you!)

3 days agoby zephyreon

"AI agents " I KNEW something was up with it. Wrap it up.

3 days agoby StarterPro

This is amazing! Really enjoyed the trip down memory lane.

It would be wonderful if you could also share or write a post about your vibe coding journey to put this together!

3 days agoby djshah

I'd love to see that command line working for some Easter eggs.

3 days agoby ldbooth

No right-click menus anywhere. How am I supposed to Lock The Taskbar? (As seen in https://madeupandprobablydoesnotexist.com/taskbar/)

3 days agoby Dwedit

This made me immediately want to play Age of Empires and drink a Mountain Dew. Well done sir.

3 days agoby stevenfoster

Feature request, very nitpicky: currently there is a grid overlay that simulates display pixels; but the content behind it is high resolution - as a result one “pixel” consists of multiple colors, which can break the illusion; this is especially visible when scrolling text. Perhaps there’s a way to render actual content in low resolution too, to match the grid resolution? E.g. set the css width&height of an element to 50% and upscale 2x via css scale transform (although filtering could be a problem), or render to a canvas and upscale there, or use html gl, or maybe there’s another way?

3 days agoby merelysounds

It looks good. As others have flagged up there are a few inaccuracies, but I noped out of Windows about the time XP came out (mainly due to the product activation stuff), so I couldn't itemize those in detail.

These kind of projects are fun to do, but as a showcase of your design skills... ehhhh? There are a few things that have your original design, like your résumé and such. Something like this is a much better showcase of your front-end coding skills, but you've delegated much of that to AI.

My advice: if you want to show off your programming skills, learn how to do it on your own. Don't do Windows XP right off the bat. Start with something simple. Make an Amiga "boing ball" bounce around the screen or something. Then tackle more complex challenges. It's not just about arriving at a finished product. By crafting something yourself, without machine assistance, you develop a better feel for what should be in the finished product and what shouldn't.

(It's OK to use dumb code generators to automate repetitive tasks, transpilers, etc. But there's a feel for when and how to use those as well.)

3 days agoby bitwize

Interesting that you vibe coded the whole thing.

3 days agoby ChuckMcM

You got this far have DIR print something!

4 days agoby tptacek

Arguably the most familiar desktop user interface on the planet. I often wonder why complex web apps do not use this searchable start menu format.

3 days agoby carlsborg

The paint app is very accurate. Kinda shocking really.

3 days agoby petermcneeley

This works incredibly well on mobile too. Awesome job

4 days agoby cr125rider

Congrats on this milestone. can it run games. what if yo host games remotely and launch them using this application?

1 day agoby m_2018

> Every pixel and every function went through me. The AI translated what I asked for into code, but every decision was human.

You'll find that programmers are a lot less prickly when you use AI to generate code, than say artists are, when you use it to generate pictures. You don't have to defend yourself, it's OK to use it to make cool things that you couldn't otherwise.

You should be aware though that even though it may "feel like magic" when just getting started, there's an upper limit to the complexity of what you can build with AI-generated code - it's very low quality and will start falling apart once you stack a lot of it. For the same reason I wouldn't recommend using it as a learning resource, if you really want to get into programming.

3 days agoby alexvitkov

It looks great the application section was a little lacking. Add minesweeper or defrag or any number of the pre installed pieces like file explorer and get more creative.

Its a lot of work setting everything you have up spend sometime on more details / applications

3 days agoby ipaddr

Wow, this reminds me of how Windows XP was such a beautiful UI.

UI these days are flat everything and pretty boring.

3 days agoby gg2222

It’s very neat but I’m sorry, you can’t advertise yourself as a designer while prominently showcasing very obviously AI-generated graphics. The wallpaper and the avatar immediately undermine everything else, I can’t take you seriously seeing those

3 days agoby nrabulinski

Looks and feels solid. Only issue I noticed off the bat is that scrolling isn't working in Chrome on Android. Also, idk if it's an issue with mobile Chrome but the address bar doesn't drop down.

3 days agoby throwaway743

This is cool! I like how you can toggle the pixel effect. A lot of great attention to detail.

4 days agoby pbohun

I miss the Windows XP look & feel so, so much.

4 days agoby sethops1

Would be cool if the contact you page let me send you an email from your site itself instead of trying to launch my default mail app. I typed out an email and filled in my email but it tried to launch mail app when I tried to send it.

3 days agoby busymom0

Wow. Beyond anything, my main take away is *do not try to mimic [wW]indows [xX][pP] in any way*. I will never ever ever get it right enough. Stick to Windows 95 or earlier.

3 days agoby timeinput

This looks and feels really good, nice work.

Makes me wonder what windows mobile could have been

3 days agoby StrangeDoctor

Really neat! I made one a few years ago too, it still is online (but not updated) https://melkael.github.io/

3 days agoby melkael

Delightful.The XP vibe is spot on, the startup sound and taskbar feel right.

3 days agoby RobertEva

Looks great on mobile! I think it’s awesome. But I’d change the avatar to something more XP like and less Simpson-esque that has a less obvious GPT designed feel to it.

3 days agoby replwoacause

This is super cool, I’m really impressed by how well it works on mobile, it feels very strange to be “using” windows on a phone but the whole experience is very smooth

21 hours agoby mautty

Really cool.

Only bug I noticed was that the command line output doesn’t scroll. This was on my iPhone with the keyboard up as I was typing commands and press return.

3 days agoby aforty

This is awesome, I found a tiny bug. On mobile, if I open CMD and the keyboard opens, the browser thinks I'm in landscape and blocks the UI till I close the keyboard.

3 days agoby adithyassekhar

Really cool! Added to my collection of personal websites @ https://personal.network/

3 days agoby billdybas

Skip the scanlines, makes everything blurry on my sharp display.

https://windows96.net

3 days agoby allendale

Where is the doom demo launcher?

https://github.com/cloudflare/doom-wasm

3 days agoby Joel_Mckay

I love the 'recently used' in the start menu.

3 days agoby nothrowaways

Windows didn't fade in and out in Windows XP.

3 days agoby MintPaw

Looks great, but you probably don't want to be serving copyrighted music mp3s directly from your site: e.g. https://mitchivin.com/assets/apps/musicPlayer/audio/song2.mp...

3 days agoby supermatt

The mobile experience is really well done too!

3 days agoby kstonekuan

What was the worst part of the Win32 API to implement? Offhand I'm guessing CreateToolhelp32Snapshot or StretchBlt.

3 days agoby kragen

Consider using the display/monitor icon in tray to manage CRT effect on/off instead of the Windows Defender icon.

3 days agoby zx8080

Looking at your resume, I am curious how you are intimately familiar with XP. Seems like it should be before your time.

3 days agoby l8again

I salute your tenacity.

3 days agoby ghoshbishakh

My mobile device is a square aspect ratio and thus there is no portrait mode to check this out :(

3 days agoby broast

> Apart from basic libraries like xp.css and paint.js, it's all original code.

I wouldn't say this constitutes "original code". AI agents are trained on open-source software; to apply them and present this project as your own work is misleading.

3 days agoby amsterdorn

I've seen a lot of similar projects, but never ones that worked well on mobile, and this one works perfectly, quite impressive.

That said, I wonder if it makes sense for a graphic designer to have a portfolio with a design that just copies someone else's (Microsoft's)?

3 days agoby iLoveOncall

Wasted opportunity: shut down -> orange "now it's safe to turn off your computer"

3 days agoby wild_pointer

Wait! Was your score big for LIGR? Also hi from someone who comes from Brizzy! (SF now)

3 days agoby tristanMatthias

Love this! The nostalgia hit hard, I immediately felt the urge to play Raft Wars on Miniclip

4 days agoby JeliHacker

Works very smoothly on my phone

3 days agoby cylemons

This reminds me a of a very faithful (in browser) recreation of Windows XP I stumbled upon recently, may've even been on HN:

https://win32.run/

Good times.

3 days agoby santah

I love the little things, like the paint program and music player. This was so fun.

3 days agoby celeritascelery

Windows XP is an emotion for me. You have rekindled the memories of 2005 .

3 days agoby srini_reddy

The mobile experience was actually really good. Pleasantly surprised.

3 days agoby turblety

Love that the hidden 10x zoom in Paint is there and works :).

3 days agoby p4bl0

There’s even a command line where you can run commands, that’s really nice!

3 days agoby meq1986

Extreme nitpick, but the progress bar animation on bootup was stepped, IIRC.

3 days agoby jolmg

very cool !

On my dell XPS13 (Windows) the high DPI scaling makes the page display "please rotate your device back to portrait mode" . If I zoom out a few steps (ctrl-minus in the browser), it loads fine.

3 days agoby muststopmyths

Get rid of the AI profile picture. Just use the picture on your resume! That AI one means a good chunk of people will hate this website before they even click your name to "login" due to their own preexisting biases. As an artist myself I'm not happy about how AI companies have shamelessly plagiarized people's work. The fact you're using the same Studio Ghibli style everyone else is using just feels unoriginal. Whether employers would care is another story entirely.

Others have left good feedback regarding the UI inconsistencies that you should address.

If you really want this to reflect on your abilities as a graphic designer, you should make this "themeable." XP had multiple visual styles - there were variants of Luna, as well as the Royale theme that came with Media Center Edition, and other themes like the Zune theme. There were also numerous third-party user-created themes you could download and use (if you installed a dll patch).

You should consider adding a few of the standard themes - at the very least the silver, olive, and royale themes. But more importantly, you should make your own themes, and add them as options as well. Open up a dialog similar to XP's "Appearance" dialog on first run so users instantly know they will have that option.

It's great if you can recreate a user interface... but anyone can do that and many already have. What matters more is how you can build on the UI while remaining true to its design language and interaction paradigms. What uniqueness can you add to the UI?

Here are some links for inspiration:

- One example of this sort of thing is https://macthemes.garden/, which has thousands of Mac OS 8/9 themes.

- Here's the wikipedia article that goes over the first party XP themes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_visual_styles

- For examples of XP third party themes... I don't know any good websites off the top of my head but DeviantArt has had lots of 3rd party themes and style assets uploaded to it over the years (for both Windows and macOS): https://www.deviantart.com/search?q=windows+xp+themes

Use these as inspiration and come up with your own unique visual styles which would still feel at home with Windows XP. If you can do that, I think it will really impress people.

3 days agoby ayaros

I don't understand the claim, is it recreating the actual operating system and kernel, and it can run and install programs like an emulator? Or is it just superficially the UI?

3 days agoby calf

That CRT effect is dope. It's amazing it's even possible.

3 days agoby scripper1

Very cool. I'm on mobile and on your projects page I couldn't scroll down to read the details of some projects. Otherwise worked well but I would double check.

3 days agoby zeroCalories

Great job! Working on mobile is really a nice touch!

3 days agoby iJohnDoe

I can tell this was a ton of work, and a ton of fun. Congrats!

3 days agoby phendrenad2

I think it’s the best portfolio I ever seen! Loves it!!!

3 days agoby harelush99

Give this man a job! (If he doesn't have one already)

3 days agoby initramfs

Author looks shirtless in the avatar photo.

3 days agoby block_dagger

"Dyanamic" typo.

otherwise, cool, nice, great work!

3 days agoby mjankowski

At this point do you even need a portfolio? You can already build amazing software, why not create your own startup?

3 days agoby Lprince

One thing that immediately popped up was how much nicer Windows XP looks compared to the current OS UIs...

3 days agoby storus

Wow! Seriously, well done! I love it.

3 days agoby supersparrow

Wow, really enjoyed clicking trough it. Super smoooth. Lots of attention to detail. Excellent. Well done mate.

3 days agoby submeta

I've gotten so used to instant loading operating systems, I've forgotten about those loading screens.

3 days agoby tayo42

Very cool. There's an impressive number of little details. My favourite is that the Paint app actually works.

4 days agoby skwashd

Well it kinda feels like the optimal example of "if you cant make it good make it look good".

While, if the author reached its goal and is happy about it, thats fair and fine - tho for me as a former webdev looking at the source and how its build well it basically yells AI... and absolutly not in a good way....

If you really want to learn coding - put the AI aside and learn it by yourself. You may use AI to search for documentations and stuff, but dont try to learn coding style/sturcturing from it ... because its very bad at it.

3 days agoby voodooEntity

We are learning. The thing about open access and giving access to those codes is so the knowledge is there, anyone can do it, use it for a reason, and hopefully they generate rewards for improvements people that are much better at coding than I will be able to fix and add on it never goes stale in 100 years the improvements are made .

3 days agoby Hiro-Nakamoto

Great portfolio site.

Now try windows93 [0]

enjoy.

[0] https://www.windows93.net

4 days agoby rvz

While I'm sure this was fun to make, I think this site is a little tone-deaf, and I'd like to save you some time and frustration.

Clients hire graphic designers for unique and modern designs. I get that WinXP is retro these days, but WinOS is also the antithesis of good design. Hacker News will love it, but design industry folks won't. Especially all the clicks and delays it takes to get to your actual work (hint: bounce rate).

You're competing with a lot of designers right now, so you need to show your best work up front to stand out. Just like you, your clients need to grab attention and establish trust for their products and services, which is why they're spending money to hire a graphic designer.

Now that you've made this, archive it as a Personal Design Experiment and add it to your portfolio so it can still be discovered.

Then, remove the WinOS skin from your actual portfolio. Take visitors straight to your projects page: it should be your homepage.

In each project: show your work. It doesn't have to be perfect, 5-star design. Make it clear what you personally designed vs AI-designed, so they know what they're paying you for. Did you make sketches? Revisions? Show 'em. Not everything, just samples. With those, describe your thought process and work process. Demonstrate that working with you is a positive, efficient experience.

That's what will get you hired.

Finally, your work so far is sports oriented. You many want to make that your focus for now. Think about what a sports-designer portfolio should look like: bold, powerful, action-oriented graphics.

3 days agoby radley

Mind Your Manners brought back some seriously nostalgic memories. Thank you!

4 days agoby oslem

Phenomenal work. Excellent!

3 days agoby msephton

This is excellent, detailed, and does the job. Many of these comments are myopic and miss the point. This is better than the way most people would present their portfolio and it shows some creativity and thoughtful design. Especially if they've visited the rest of your portfolio.

Good job, OP. Stay away from the haters.

3 days agoby vkaku

This is so damn cool! I love that you have MS Paint too xD

3 days agoby stonecharioteer

totally blown away when paint worked

2 days agoby nektro

Good stuff! Desktop environments are so much fun to make.

3 days agoby DustinBrett

Absolutely brilliant.

3 days agoby haloblue

you sir are an absolute mad lad! kudos.

3 days agoby Varun08

man, fix the typos. Dyanamic.

otherwise, fun, great, keep going!

3 days agoby mjankowski

This is amazing!

3 days agoby johndhi

The "recently used" part was clever :)

4 days agoby zb3

This gives me so much joy. Well done!!

3 days agoby padolsey

A graphic designer should be capable of designing an avatar for themselves instead of using AI slop that rips off Studio Ghibli. I closed the page as soon as I saw that.

3 days agoby mietek

hey i saw this a while ago on /r/vibecoding . Looks even better now .

3 days agoby apwell23

Quite honestly, super cool! Telling that you probably managed to wield AI tools quite well if you managed to get this far with it.

Only pet peeve I have is with the obvious AI generated art (including the wallpaper?) — still can't get onboard with them.

3 days agoby sangeeth96

Did you ask Microsoft permission to use logo/branding etc. Or are you ready to be sued?

3 days agoby gloosx

Great work

3 days agoby scosman

pretty badass sir! cheers!

3 days agoby poundtown

No offense, maybe I am jaded by our environment, but this reads like an ai ad….

3 days agoby kennyloginz

Amazing work!

3 days agoby makuchaku

this is sick

3 days agoby nategreb

pretty badass sir...cheers to you.

3 days agoby poundtown

Very cool

3 days agoby lurquer

Wow. You are going places, Mitch. Epic design skills. Listening to Unwritten and loading up that email form… can’t wait to see what you build.

3 days agoby clbrmbr

I need to right-click and refresh the desktop, please.

4 days agoby VitoVan

now we need windows 3.1

1 day agoby madou

No minesweeper?! I’m severely disappointed.

3 days agoby adastra22

Great job, well done. This really highlights that people who obsess in telling us that "AI hallucinates", and "AI isn't intelligent", are missing the point. At the end of the day, it's simply useful, and incredibly empowering.

3 days agoby quantummagic

This shit is fucking awsome!

3 days agoby rawxtl

> I started from zero knowledge and spent months collaborating with AI agents as a learning experience. Every pixel and every function went through me. The AI translated what I asked for into code, but every decision was human.

This is so absurdly cringe and absolutely not coding. It’s like saying I spent absolutely trying to get ChatGPT to write my college essay for me. At the end of the writing period, I wrote nothing but decided which ai goop I liked best.

3 days agoby oceanhaiyang