Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
TLDR Dev
A mathematician used AI coding agents to port approximately two dozen old Java applets to modern JavaScript, completing a task that would have taken much longer by hand, and used the same approach to build two new visualization tools including a special relativity explorer that he had abandoned in 1999. The porting process took hours instead of the original weeks of manual work, with only one minor bug found across all applets. The success has prompted him to consider adding interactive visualizations generated with AI assistance to accompany future papers and teaching materials.
Why it matters
AI has made the process of updating and creating mathematical applets much faster, allowing for successful migration of older Java applets to JavaScript with minimal bugs and enabling creation of new visualization apps.
