Steve Troughton-SmithFeb 4

Three apps from zero to functional in a day. There are a bunch of existential questions this raises (we know that new Xcode developers are never going to write actual code again, right?), but even with my reasonable skill level it took a looot of effort (8 hours of nonstop prompting and debugging just today, and I forgot to eat) to get what I wanted in the shape that I wanted it.

This is the biggest change to Xcode (and Project Builder) in its entire history, dropped on a random Tuesday

Show threadSon of a SailorFeb 4
@stroughtonsmith Ken Kocienda (@kocienda) has been doing some very interesting posts about how to productively prompt a chatbot for a software project.
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Show threadKen KociendaFeb 4
@Sonofasailor @stroughtonsmith https://tugtool.dev/journal/how-i-write-code-with-ai/
How I Write Code With AI

I use AI coding assistants extensively, but I don't vibe code

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Show threadKen KociendaFeb 5
@Sonofasailor @stroughtonsmith So far, I’ve been going through those steps manually. For the past two days, I've started to build a more automated/ergonomic agent flow around these ideas. This is a common refrain in my work with AI: figure out the patterns, then teach the AI the patterns.