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Building apps with an AI agent

A coding agent, a documentation server and a shopping list: a working app from a short brief, why the agent never guesses, and what happens when the brief grows.

  1. From Six Lines to a Working Full-Stack App

    Hand a coding agent a six-line brief and get a running .NET and Vue app, with sample data and a clickable UI, in about half an hour. Step by step, with no license and no account.

    8 min read
  2. Stop the Agent from Guessing

    A coding agent built working apps on a framework it had never seen, without inventing a single method. The reason is documentation that lives with the code, is served one piece at a time, and tells the agent what to do next and how to check it worked.

    8 min read
  3. What Happens When a Simple App Brief Gets Complicated?

    Before an agent builds a bigger app, sort each request into what the framework provides, what the agent must assemble, and what is missing. A plan for a shopping-list app with sign-in, sharing, photos and offline use, and what changes when an app keeps growing after its first run.

    11 min read
  4. Reviewing an App You Didn't Write

    When an agent builds the app, a framework that owns the plumbing shrinks the review to the part that is your business. What to read first: which questions the API answers, what a save may change, and which rules run every time.

    6 min read