Loving these posts, Akos! Really useful to understand how AI-driven development is shaping up.
One interesting thing would be to know how much your base knowledge of a framework or language helps when working with these tools. Also, is it possible that a complete novice in a particular framework or programming language can come in and build prototypes using these tools (this is also I feel one of the worries people also have whether any non-Java developer for example can build a Java app or a non-React developer builds a React app and if that's possible, why bother learning and stuff like that). Would love to hear what you think about this (maybe in some future post).
Thanks Saurabh, will continue sharing my experience! :) Yes, it's possible for a complete novice to build something using only prompts, but there's a limit to what you can build.
I don't think it's a skill issue because, at some point, even in Bolt, if you integrate Supabase, AI enters a loop with issues it can't fix (for example, a table is present in Supabase, but the tool doesn't see it).
Knowing the basics of React and the framework-agnostic stuff it creates is probably good, as you can edit the code directly to speed things up (and it doesn't consume credits). A mobile app I built with Bolt is based on Expo and React Native. I never used those, and I don't even know what the code does because I haven't had to touch those parts.
Happy to answer if you have more questions about this. :)
I used bolt.new to build out the initial version. It generated an Expo app which I continued in Windsurf.
But I'm really tempted to move over to a PWA architecture because I don't want to deal with Apple Store and obtaining a license - not sure if it can fit the 12 months 12 startups style.
Loving these posts, Akos! Really useful to understand how AI-driven development is shaping up.
One interesting thing would be to know how much your base knowledge of a framework or language helps when working with these tools. Also, is it possible that a complete novice in a particular framework or programming language can come in and build prototypes using these tools (this is also I feel one of the worries people also have whether any non-Java developer for example can build a Java app or a non-React developer builds a React app and if that's possible, why bother learning and stuff like that). Would love to hear what you think about this (maybe in some future post).
Also, thanks for the mention!
Thanks Saurabh, will continue sharing my experience! :) Yes, it's possible for a complete novice to build something using only prompts, but there's a limit to what you can build.
I don't think it's a skill issue because, at some point, even in Bolt, if you integrate Supabase, AI enters a loop with issues it can't fix (for example, a table is present in Supabase, but the tool doesn't see it).
Knowing the basics of React and the framework-agnostic stuff it creates is probably good, as you can edit the code directly to speed things up (and it doesn't consume credits). A mobile app I built with Bolt is based on Expo and React Native. I never used those, and I don't even know what the code does because I haven't had to touch those parts.
Happy to answer if you have more questions about this. :)
What AI tools are you using to help you build web and mobile apps?
And thank you so much for the shoutout!
I used bolt.new to build out the initial version. It generated an Expo app which I continued in Windsurf.
But I'm really tempted to move over to a PWA architecture because I don't want to deal with Apple Store and obtaining a license - not sure if it can fit the 12 months 12 startups style.