Looks really good, he is working on getting it to work with FluidNC. It’s a fork of Gsender he tries to make a lot better with plugins etc. It looks fantastic, if you ask me. 
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this image alone makes me want it. There was alot to digest in this one pic, but when I saw 3 tools in different colors for their paths WOW! Now i see grblhal, but nothing about fluidnc.
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The youtubes are awesome also!
He is on the PrintNC and FluidNC discord and is chasing some bugs at the moment. Or rather tries to work with the different error states of FluidNC.
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It truly looks awesome, he had started with gsender, also called it gsender. I watched all of his youtubes last night. I WANT IT!
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So is this a replacement for the fluidnc web interface?
No, this is a desktop app and you need to run a long USB cable from the computer to the CNC controller. Instead of the gcode running off the SD card, this is sending individual lines from the gcode file.
I’m implementing this in my gcode viewer for the WebUI.
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If I’d run a FluidNC board I’d run this NCSender as soon as it works for Fluid. But at the moment I am still happy with Estlcam. Might get interesting if I ever buy a ATC. 
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So I watched all his youtubes. He too has done all this developement with a.I. He mentions running out of tokens! Wild.
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That just means he stopped giving it more money. 
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Was it you that was using a.I. To program? are you paying for it?
Yes, I used Claude Sonnet 4.5 via Github Copilot in VS Code to develop FluidTouch.
I am paying for it via Github Copilot Pro at $10/month plus I have it allow up to an additional $20/month based on usage. You can’t use “premium” models like Claude Sonnet with the free plan. I probably spent about $40 on it to develop FluidTouch.
Note that purchasing AI usage is weird. I think you can use Claude Sonnet models for free direct from Anthropic (makers of Claude) but I think that just lets you do it in browser. To get “Claude Code” from them, you need to pay $20/month which is again for some amount of usage. With that and what I’m using, it can literally create/update/read/explain code files for you, write documentation, and even run things in the terminal (with permission).
With Github Copilot, different models cost different “multipliers”. Claude Haiku 4.5 is 0.33x, Claude Sonnet 4.5 is 1x, and Claude Opus 4.5 (brand new) is promotionally 1x but will be 3x. You can also access ChatGPT models, and Gemini models, and others.
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This is a desktop interface. You connect a computer and keep it awake while cutting and each gcode command is streamed over USB.
More reliable in some ways and less reliable in others.
You can also use pi 5 as headless server that connect to your controller. ncSender is pure hub-spoke or client-server architecture, so you can have many client remote to the server.
Streaming of g-code is from server to the controller, client only provide UI to interact to the server.
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I know right, its kinda addicting. 
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Hey, welcome to the forums. I posted your link because I saw your post on discord and I knew some people around here would find it pretty interesting.
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Thanks. Im still waiting for a loaner pibot controller so I can tweak and test the ncSender in FluidNC before my Claude subscription run out.
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good day and welcome to our very addicting corner of the internet!
You are a very welcome addition here!
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o.k. so I decided to give claude a try for free. This is kinda cool. I asked claude for help making gsender fluidnc compatible. It then asked me a bunch of quetions, (lol, i did not answer, instead i asked if it had acceess to gsender code, and it gave me this
kinda cool.
hee, hee, it then saw that it works with usb/serial, but not with telnet and recommended I try a virtual com port. I may be trying that! If I can get a wireless connection for Gsender, that would be cool