I used Claude Code and GSD to build the accessibility tool I've always wanted

blakewatson.com

24 points·todsacerdoti··6 comments

Buried thousands of words in: "The main purpose of Scroll My Mac is to allow me to click and drag my mouse over any area to scroll it like you would on a phone or tablet"

The lunatic obsession with making scroll bars invisible is not just an aesthetic choice, it's a moral one; and as a moral choice it is emphatically condemnable.

At least have an accessibility option to enable them again…

The tool looks neat, and normally I'd be interested to check out the code and learn something new by discussing it with the author, but I can't think of any technical questions that would be interesting to hear your opinion on, since you didn't code it. You even mention you don't know Swift at all.

But I'm sure you had fun creating it, so nice job. I'm just screaming at clouds.

OP here, yeah I get that! I think the only technical input I had was my prompts for fixing bugs. I'm a web developer, so I have some familiarity with the life cycle of mouse events. Depending on what behaviors I was trying to fix, I could infer what was most likely going on in English, not that I knew how to translate it into Swift code.

But yeah, I'm yelling at clouds right next to you.

There was precious little of what GSD added in terms of value, other than the author saying it did some process stuff and blew through a bunch of tokens.

Anyone able to comment on how GSD improves CC over the base behavior? Can you get the same benefit by writing thoughtful descriptions of what you want it to build?

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