Using AI to develop applications for SFOS?

Have someone tried to setup AI to develop applications for SFOS? I have developed few apps for my Android device without even knowing how to program in Kotlin, swift, etc.. But I was managed to create few application for me (each app took me about 2-3 evenings to do in interactive way). Have someone done something similar?

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Sure you have tried before the search function and have found e.g.

or

Is there some new points in your question or is it a duplicate?

seems like duplicate

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There seem to be several AI developed apps on OpenRepos:

There is also a SFOS skill for Claude Code somewhere on this forum.

I use AI to develop apps (1 in store review queue, 1 under development)
Quick answer, my individual opinion, for what it’s worth:

It is not easy to start developing apps. Use AI as a learning opportunity.
Use AI to develop an app, but do as much as possible yourself. Ask the AI why it has done things if things are not clear. And rewrite code from the beginning of your project, because halfway through, you’ll understand way better what the AI has done and why.

I like to copy/paste nothing. When writing it character by character, I force myself to read the code, and take time to process what I am reading and writing. Many times I wanted to copy/paste, and forced myself to type, and then realized I didn’t understand something, or I did not like a variable name, or something needed a comment, and so on.

Before you publish your app, or even earlier, before you share source code, think to yourself: do I really want to be responsible for this code. Do I want my name on this, and do I want to be judged on this code? If you are just the publisher and managing an app written completely by AI, make sure everybody that uses it, and everybody that looks at your source code, will know it is written by AI, so the responsibility to use the app or read the code becomes theirs.

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I am currently porting WebKit to SFOS with AI agents.

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Mostly I read tests to understand how code works.

:wink:

…funny considering the actual news about AI breaking out of isolation without being asked to do so :smiley:

Also Anduril unveiling their autonomous HK-Drone from Terminator. I love this timeline :laughing: