Hi All, been a Colorthink user since day 1 to today with 4.2, loved the potential, but always frustrated by the slow development, unreliability and lack of feedback on bugs. Today I decided to see how easy it would be to do CT tasks using AI - so I asked Claude to create me a 3D Lab interactive plot of a CGATS file. 3 mins later I had an interactive HTML viewer plot that was better than I get in CT. Each point would display its value if I hovered over it - no pressing keys etc. I think there is probably nothing I do in CT that I can’t get Claude to do. Its a bit slower to set up as I have to wait a few mins for its action, but its robust. Claude is also great at fixing code so maybe time they got Claude to fix the CT source code so its robust! I would rather use CT as its faster to set up, but on average if you include the regular freezing maybe its not faster today. BTW I am on a super fast 32 core threadripper with 256G memory so my machine performance is not the issue here. Just laying out the reality here…
Dear Mike,
Your post infuriates me.
Sincerely,
John
John, what infuriates you, the truth or are you in denial about the bugs in CT on Windows 11 or the power of AI? I am just a frustrated user of a buggy CT. Also I should add I run a software dev team so I fully understand it takes major commitment to rigorous software development practices and extensive QA to deliver software quality. BUT I also see from recent experience that AI can really clean up your code and I wonder if running CT through Claude might improve the stability significantly. I would love CT to work robustly for hours on end, but even simple graphing and manipulation of 300 points or so will freeze in less than 30 mins on Win 11. Mike
Mike,
You threatened the thing that is frustrating you with extinction.
John