We've been adding MCP and agent support to Codea. Asked Codex to create a What's New animation for it in SwiftUI
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I post about iOS and macOS dev, graphics and games. Working on: https://codea.io https://shade.to and https://retrogram.app
Something I was kind of putting off for the macOS version of Codea was changing the autocomplete suggestions from a bar to something more traditional
I asked Codex to have a go at it. It did a good job. I took over and made sure I agreed with (or changed) its decisions, and added some polish
Not sure if it saved time, but I never would have started without being able to generate the "rough draft" so quickly
Been trying to find a way to expand the Retrogram games area to fit more future games, but I didn't really want scrolling. Really pleased with how this SwiftUI stacking scroll effect worked out
Every now and then I poke Claude to add some more to this. It has a dark mode now
The code is easy enough to understand, so I've often just made fixes and worked directly on it
I'm finding I tend to use the LLM when I have a really boring task (update these colours, here are the hexes). Even though it would be trivial — and possibly faster — to do by hand
This blog has a good example, Paper by FiftyThree has always been one of my favourite apps https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/
Image caption: Spend all the tokens you want, trying to make something unique like Paper by FiftyThree with AI tools will just end up looking normal and uninspired.
A few more prompts and it's starting to look like the iOS one. I've had to hand-copy hex codes out of the xcassets file a few times, and manually tweak positions in the code
Inspired by https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116019153868915403
I decided to try this on my iOS game https://retrogram.app
I used Claude. It burned through my entire quota in 45 minutes and produced this Android app:
- It works, using the same Firebase backend
- It's only the main game screen
- The aesthetics are way off
- Animations are primitive
