Hi,
I am the developer. Started the project 2 years ago. Got stuck in the fine edge cases of XML manipulation, which arise to preserve all kinds of formatting marks after translation.
Could finish with the help of GPT Sol. Added the case of translating images in slides: only when the amount of text is small enough that it will work OK.
- at first LLMs apply a penalty to development: it requires to explore new toolings for AI assisted coding, then select and get used to one of them, that might well end up being a transient solution. e.g. Cursor, to be replaced soon by Claude Code?
- new uncertainty about which feature to develop: if I can develop it, then anyone else surely can reverse engineer it easily and replicate it? This is quite unnerving.
Couldn't find it on the Play store by searching for the name and the developer's name: if it is not just me then your app is very hard to discover.
So I am installing it through the link you provided, which directed me to a "install success" page saying "your purchase is successful" even if your app is free. Another obstacle to adoption :-)
Last, I was not informed on the page of the app' size. Seeing what it does and the time it takes to download I am afraid it could be huge? Third obstacle :-)
I hesitate trying Claude Code, there is a bit of fatigue installing new tools :-)
By the way: ChatGPT 5.1 Codex Max pro, which was rubbish when used directly inside Cursor, is actually very good once I access it via the OpenAI Codex extension installed within Cursor!
Mysteries of toolchains...
Anyway, that proved so useful when I maxed out my Claude credits.
To nick pick, it is more about 800% gain in productivity. Cost actually increased.
I refer here to my experience as a solo developer.
With AI assistance I don't spend less hours coding, but more.
There is the thrill of shipping relevant features that were sleeping in my drawers for ages, quicker. Each hour of coding delivers just 8 x more features and bug solving.
Also, whereas I spent a few dozen dollars per month on server costs, I now also spend an equivalent amount on subscriptions and API calls to LLM services for this AI assisted coding. Worth every penny.
So while productivity increased manifold, absolute cost actually increased as well for me.
Gephi is still there and maintained, actually the 2025 Gephi week takes place in August in France.
True, the pace of development has slowed. What features would you like to see developed?
You are right IMHO. Java 24 introduces a much shorter "hello world" experience with:
- no class déclaration
- no void, static, public statements
- no System.out
Technology in the classroom has become an urgent issue. Laptops, smartphones, and now generative AI are increasingly depriving students of one of their most precious assets: their attention. In this blog post, I argue that these challenges demand distinct responses.
This reminds me of my time as a professor at a business school, where I worked in an open space with my screen visible to everyone. I spent a lot of time coding, so my IDE was always in plain sight.
Yet, it was only when I had the terminal open, running a few basic commands, that people would stop by and say—impressed—"Oh, I didn’t realize you could code."