Building a macOS App with AI Coding Agent: A Developer's Journey
By
gdudeman
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
The article discusses the author's experience of building a native macOS app called Context using Claude Code, an AI coding agent, with minimal manual coding. The author shares insights into the development process and the use of Apple's SwiftUI framework.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThe goal was to build a useful developer tool that feels at home on the platform, powered by Apple's SwiftUI framework.
Context was almost 100% built by Claude Code.
I estimate that I wrote less than 1,000 lines by hand out of the 20,000 lines of code in this project.
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