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Build my own desktop image editor in five weeks

A creator who fixes AI-generated images in ComfyUI had the AI build him a full desktop editor, Scumble, over five weeks starting September 4: 632 commits and about 83,000 lines of app code, tested against his own pictures. It reached 43 releases and a Microsoft Store listing, and every feature doubles as a command an agent can call.

How it works

  1. Start as a ComfyUI custom node on September 4
  2. Grow it into a desktop app by September 7
  3. Direct AI session by session from a CLAUDE.md project memory, testing with his own pictures
  4. Run builder, test-writer and skeptic sub-agents on bigger jobs
  5. Ship 43 releases through GitHub and the Microsoft Store

Why it’s worth knowing

One person and an agent shipped a store-listed editor with 83,000 lines of code and its own agent command interface.

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Summarized from a public post on dev.to. See the original ↗

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