BoltPage

The best way to find out if AI can build real software is to need real software.

I needed to view documentation in Markdown format efficiently. Every available viewer either required a browser consuming 2GB of RAM, or offered poor performance. Native alternatives were slow, had formatting issues with lengthy documents, or were overly complex editors when simple file reading was needed.

BoltPage is a desktop Markdown viewer and editor built on Rust and Tauri. It supports GitHub-flavored Markdown with syntax highlighting, multiple themes, multi-window operation with independent preferences per window, live preview, and automatic detection of external file changes. It also handles JSON, YAML, TXT, and PDF in view-only mode with a vanilla JavaScript frontend, pulldown-cmark for parsing, and syntect for syntax highlighting. Ships native on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

The entire application was developed with AI coding agents under my direction. Not blind-coded, not one-shotted, not generated in an afternoon. Every piece of code was reviewed, tested, and manually approved.

AI does not replace the need to understand what you are building. It replaces the years it would take to learn a language well enough to build it. Rust demands careful attention, but AI made it viable for focused projects. Single-purpose tools outperform feature-heavy platforms.

MIT Open Source. Because the world has enough proprietary Markdown viewers.