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Okay I'm sorry if you're all getting tired of it, but here's yet another I-built-this-with-AI post. It is my first time really vibe-coding something, but it's for a good cause: updating my old academic software Assemblytics that I had nearly shut down multiple times due to server issues.

Now it doesn't need a server anymore! I used AI to rewrite all the R scripts and that one Perl script into Python, now you can `pip install assemblytics`! And then I told the AI to use Pyodide to turn it into a web app, and it just did it. It worked right away, but of course I did a lot of testing.

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And I spent like a day just polishing things and another day getting it up on PyPI and Bioconda. But I would have never had the energy to start (let alone finish) this project without a modern AI agent to do the heavy lifting.