I Shipped a macOS App Built by Claude Code

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2 points·phirschybar··3 comments

Thanks for sharing some of the process, especially with screenshots!

> This is 2,000 lines of Python code that, even if I had written it manually, I would've never bothered to automate more than the most critical steps, and certainly would not have put the effort into making the output look this nice.

Did you have concerns about the software doing things you didn't intend within its 2,000 lines of code - either due to bugs or you as the human not reading or understanding some parts of the code (or just not bothering to)?

The biggest concern I see repeated over and over when it comes to apps coded by machines is that the user & creator don't know what the app does.

Hi, I'm the author of the blog post. I didn't have any concerns about it doing things I didn't intend, because I was careful to review the diffs every time it made a change. There's a lot of hype about no-code AI app generators, and while that may work well some day, for now, I believe that these tools are most useful for maximizing the output of an experienced engineer who can understand the code being written by the model.

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I'm a decent enough programmer and have noticed weird, unnecessary code sometimes being added along the way as I've worked with AI during coding, so I was curious if you had any concerns about leaning on a tool that has the ability to write code that you might not understand. Sounds like you do not have that concern, and I'm glad it worked for you.

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