Once upon a time I could code — coding once required typing skills — but thanks to neuropathy as a side effect of chemotherapy and possibly diabetes, I am experiencing significant pain using a keyboard and with many other activities. Neuropathy, peripheral neuropathy, makes touch painful for me. The pain varies and I have medications to help, but they don’t erase the problem consistently, and too much of this medication can affect other systems in my body. Getting old is fun.Side note: I also used to blog alot. ALOT. Yes, I know “alot” is not a word. It just feels right, so, henceforth, it’s a word, to me.
Anyway, I use, and prefer, Linux as my operating system, and in that world my daily driver desktop PC gets rebuilt every so often, but reconnecting the disks I use and my favourite Home folders is a first step in restoring normalcy to my life after such an event. For years I have wanted to write an app to save and restore these connections rather than turning to my notes and updating the fstab manually each time. So, I turned to Claude this time.
I’m new to vibe coding, but I’ve been having conversations with Claude for months, beginning with planning my move this year from Waterloo, Ontario, to the “East Coast” of Beautiful British Columbia, the East Kootenays. My job requires an understanding of AI, Artificial Intelligence (not Super Intelligence), and helping people who are adopting it. No, I don’t enjoy the impact AI data centers are having on the planet, but perhaps AI can help solve that. I do believe that AI has a benefit when not used for evil.
What I have done, this last week or so, is to vibe code a tool, fstab Manager.
I’m going to drop the screenshots here, and a link to the manual. The crazy, cool, and scary thing about this blog entry is that it would give anyone the means to employ Claude or another AI to recreate the tool. We’re going to see alot of that in the future.
This is my recovery.
I present to you, fstab Manager:
