3 months building a mobile app with -AI-. What I learned? (complete feedbacks)
Can AI replace developers? [Full feedback in 7 parts] 👉 1- My Real Workflow for Building with AI Over the past few months, AI has been portrayed either as a revolutionary technology capable of replacing developers or as little more than a gimmick. After more than 20 years of building professional software applications, I wanted to form my own opinion by using it on a real project: a mobile app for discovering and sharing sticker packs across WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, and other platforms. I developed this application on my own over the course of approximately three months, making extensive use of AI tools throughout the entire project. 🔥 My goal was not to find out whether AI could write code for me, but to understand what it actually accelerates, what it still cannot do, and how it concretely changes a developer's day-to-day workflow. In the end, the conclusion is fairly simple: the productivity gains are real, and sometimes impressive. However, based on my experience, the pr...