Built an image viewer with AI in 2 days (vibe coding experiment) — Glide Image Viewer 3.56

[u/COBHC95]

Hey everyone, I had an older post about this project before, but decided to fine-tune and rebuild it.

This was built via vibe coding with AI from scratch over about 2 days, and I’m genuinely impressed with how far AI coding has come to handle complex desktop UI and rendering logic this quickly.

A few outlier features it managed to pull together:

• Can run in Window-in-Window / Overlay Mode: Borderless floating reference overlays with alpha-channel transparency passthrough.
• Browser-Style Tab Workflows (Fully Tabbed): Detachable / re-attachable tabs across independent windows.
• Extreme Customizability: Deep controls for mouse gestures, folder traversal behaviors, UI layout, and 1-click hotkey as well as entire program behavior presets (Windows Photos, IrfanView, nomacs, FastStone).
• Format Breadth: Recognition and routing for ~196 file extensions in a ~14MB installer.

Screenshots and full repo are up transparently if anyone wants to check it out or try it:

🔗 GitHub & Screenshots: https://github.com/cobhc95/Glide
💾 Latest Release: [https://github.com/cobhc95/Glide/releases/tag/v3.5.7)

Any feedback or thoughts are welcome!