“I gave it a one paragraph prompt… it basically did it one shot… I said I’m going to ship this on the website as a Mac app… Claude was like, sure, bro… and then I did… now that one's in the app store.”

Stephen Robles · The Vergecast · Why your favorite creator is building an app

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What was described

Built Captioner, a batch caption-adding tool, by prompting Claude with a one-paragraph description; Claude generated the app, which was uploaded as a DMG on Cloudflare and later as an iPhone app

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“…prompt the unit tests to see and push the limits… then I went to Claude Code… built Claude Code skills that for me are rinse and repeat off of the unit test prompts…”
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“I have my own security agent that reviews the code. And it's like, well, Claude just created the code. But then Claude is now with its security app going, well, that code is insecure.”
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“Claude just gives me better UI… I never have to leave that app.”
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“Claude looked at logs of an app that's misbehaving and figured out I had a leaky cable.”
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