My other topic was about the BeBox emulator that was written by Claude based on a skill I had cobbled together, I also have “vibe coded” a lot of other Haiku apps and tools.
I have been wanting native SMB client support for years, GSOCs seem to come and go… anyway I asked Claude to write full SMB client support for Haiku and the result was smbfs/SMBMounter:
This is a full native SMB client filesystem written in C++ against haiku’s kernel APIs. I have been using it for the past week dealing with tons of files and besides one bug with deleting locked file it’s been super stable, I can’t believe how well it works.
I then asked Claude for a clone of Macintosh Word 5.1a for Haiku, and this was the result:
This is “Quill” a World 5.1a clone written by Claude, it even chose the name and I liked it! If you notice Word 5.1a is running in an app called PowerMac…
I asked Claude how hard would it be to fork the BeBox emulator and make a PowerMac 9500 emulator with dual CPUs, this was what I ran BeOS on back in the day. After a few hours Claude had this fully up and running:
It even runs BeOS and supports full audio, shared BeFS and HFS virtual drives and multiple CPUs:
In the last week i’ve asked Claude to port or create a bunch of stuff like my favorite SGI screensaver, the legendary ElectroPaint, I asked it to create a mid 2000s iTunes clone called BeTunes, a native Haiku VNC Server and Client called BeNC, and a simple image browser/viewer called Galleria:
It even created all the icons except the SMBMounter icon, and although they are kind of weird they could be worse LOL
Has anyone else been using Claude to write Haiku apps? I’ve been using these apps on my Haiku install for about a week and they all work and are very stable, I’m amazed and a little startled at how good AI has gotten just in the past year.
I’ll be getting all the source for these uploaded to my github soon if anyone finds them useful like me.
