We are always told that programming is a tool for problem-solving. But this week, I experienced this truth on a completely different level. Using my autonomous AI Agent (Hermes), software development became my real-time, daily survival tool.

Instead of searching for half-baked third-party apps, dealing with intrusive ads, or compromising on terrible mobile UX, I spent the last few days building four highly customized, production-grade applications to solve exact friction points in my daily life and for my family.

Here is the story of how these four apps came to life.

Remote Terminal (Defeating NoMachine's Screen Rotation Limit)

The Problem: I use NoMachine to control my main development PC remotely from my mobile phone. However, I ran into an incredibly frustrating limitation: there was absolutely no way to rotate the remote display viewport by 90 degrees to fit my mobile screen orientation properly.