I meet a lot of AI resistance. “AI can’t be trusted with code.” “AI makes lots of mistakes.” “AI slop.”
There are legitimate reasons to be sceptical or anti-AI. Bad output is not one of them. Let me show you.
The voice is mine. So is the music: Solitude, from Rise Above. Claude made the rest.
What it shows
- funkey: a game engine for the terminal, and its games. It plays the original Doom. Most of the games play in a browser.
- CHasm: a complete desktop in assembly. Under one megabyte. More than 20 hours of battery life on my laptop.
- Fe₂O₃: more than forty apps in Rust. Mail, calendar, editor, file manager, trading, web browser. The periodic table, the stars, the Standard Model, the universe.
- ferrite: an SQL database. One afternoon.
- nomad: it all follows me onto the phone.
- Several complex web solutions, from a learning platform to a data lake for financial data.
Every application I see is my application. I stopped using other people’s applications.
The film
No video editor. Claude wrote one script that draws every picture of the film.
I read the voice-over in ten takes while the film played. Claude found the time of every word I said and hooked it all up.
Summary
Built with Claude Code. This film was created to inspire you to create stuff you might need.
- The film on YouTube
- The games, the desktop, the apps, the database and the phone
- All my code on GitHub
Link to this post: https://isene.org/2026/10/Your-Own-Software.html