Old and new apps, via modern coding agents

TLDR Dev · 5 days ago

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.