djinnrutger

I Manage IT for a small/medium company. We were paying quite a bit for helpdesk software. Last year they moved their modules around so the features we wanted (IT Inventory) cost extra per item. With the help of AI I was able to vibe code my own helpdesk with Python/Flask. It does everything we need to do (and then some lol) and works great for us. We keep it on the inside of our network. It has been a great and fun project for me in my spare time and it is all possible because of AI!

https://helpfuldjinn.com/ https://github.com/DjinnRutger/HelpDesk-Public

My Dad worked for a small town and they needed a billing system for water and electricity in the early 90s. He learned C and wrote the entire billing system from scratch. It looked and worked amazing for a dos program of the time. After he passed away in 2021 they got new computers and ended up getting a new billing software and his software was never saved anywhere :(

I am not comparing myself to you (or any developer) I know the basics of code and play around, but with AI tools like VSCode and CoPilot subscription I have done some crazy stuff that would have either been impossible or years worth of work for me. I have been working with Python and created a few tools that saved me tons of time every day. I do side computer/networking work and I was able to build my own invoicing application to bill and track everything. My latest project has been an IT helpdesk for our internal IT team. I am sure the code is not good by your standards but these tools are amazing for what I use them for. What scares me is if someone with my level "skill" would create programs that become mission critical and think nothing of it...that is asking for trouble..at least with where we are at with AI right now.

I am pretty proud of my helpdesk: website: https://helpfuldjinn.com/ or via the github: https://github.com/DjinnRutger/HelpDesk-Public

It has been a great adventure seeing what AI has enabled to be done!

I use Nomacs Image Lounge as my default image view on windows. It works really well and it can convert images including HEIC too. Only issue is I think the newer HEIC may not work, but I saw that the newer version on the github may have addressed this but I have not tested. https://nomacs.org/ https://github.com/nomacs/nomacs

I have been using VSCode / CoPilot with Opus 4.5 and it has been working the best of any of the system I have tried. Very happy with it so far. I never really got good results with GPT5.1. though 5.2 seems better...but not by alot, so I will stick with Opus 4.5 for now.

I am still working on my helpdesk. An easy to use self-hosted IT Helpdesk system for small IT teams. Vibe coding it with VSCode and CoPilot. I started this project when I needed my own helpdesk and didnt want to pay a fortune online providers. It runs on Python with Flask and Sqalchemy. It can be ran from the python files, or the executable is portable and can be ran from any windows computer. It stays in the network but I run with a ZeroTier connection so I can access it from anywhere without the risk of it being live on the internet.

Features I have implemented so far: Ticketing (duh), Email va MS Graph for MS office, Documents for info/repeat answers, Purchasing, Inventory, Projects -group of tickets)

New features I just added in the last month is Ticket Approvals if you need a managers approval for purchasing something or assigning a licenses to someone.

https://github.com/DjinnRutger/HelpDesk-Public/tree/main

https://helpfuldjinn.com/

My daughter and her boyfriend - matching headsets for gaming (one black and one pink). My son (who is a Marine) a box full of snacks that he cant get overseas.

Claude Code is amazing (I assume that is what you mean by Codex) it integrates into your terminal. The biggest advantage over Cursor is the use of Agents to automate your workflow. an Example is you can have a FileNaming Agent that you give a list of instructions to for whenever a new file is created so it is named a certain way, or a Comment Agent with instructions of whenever a comment is created in your code it puts certain information in. Maybe you can do this all in Cursor too but I dont know how. Also you dont need to pay for the API as you can just use your account to log into Claude Code.

That works really good! Awesome job!

I am working on a easy to use self-hosted IT Helpdesk system for small IT teams. Vibe coding it with VSCode and CoPilot. I started this project when I needed my own helpdesk and didnt want to pay a fortune online providers.

https://github.com/DjinnRutger/HelpDesk-Public/tree/main

https://helpfuldjinn.com/

For me, I always find its best to find a problem that I want to fix and then research to tools that would best fix it. I find it much easier to stick with something if I am seeing the benefits...I have a horrible time just trying to say I am going to learn (insert topic here) today! Its much easier for me to say I want to make my own Tower Defense Game, or Invoicing Application I should learn Python or C or html to make it work.

Hichhikers guide to the galaxy is a must for everyone no matter what :) also Snow Crash or Cryptonomicon both by Neal Stephenson

I have been using Dell Latitude and Precision for about 15 years and I have have great luck with them. Our guys that work out in the field with the Latitude laptops beat the crap out of them and we have very few issues. Not sure about Lenovo. I think they are called Pro and Pro Plus now.

The Dell Pro line of laptops are rock solid (use to be called latitude). they have models with 16gb ram for under $1000 with holiday sales going on.