Ian Mulvany

June 26, 2026

I built something for my wife!

She has a ton of images of test tubes in boxes, and she needs to create csv files that note the location of the tables in their respective cells that the tubes are stored in. Schleppy work.

Step in GPT Codex and Claude. After not too many iterations I had the AI create the following app for the work that she needs to do.

And I'm delighted to say that it seems to be working to help her with the task at hand.

A great example of the https://resonantcomputing.org/

Here is the repo
https://github.com/IanMulvany/test_tube_tagging_app


And this is a screenshot of the app: 
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About Ian Mulvany

Hi, I'm Ian - I work on academic publishing systems. You can find out more about me at mulvany.net. I'm always interested in engaging with folk on these topics, if you have made your way here don't hesitate to reach out if there is anything you want to share, discuss, or ask for help with!