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He built a working Nostr app by talking to his agent for 48 hours

His second attempt at building software by voice with an agent produced Feather, a working Nostr client. He had to talk it out of adding an app store, a login page, and a settings menu it kept trying to build, and he paid about 3,000 sats in lightning tips to people who reviewed the code.

How it works

  1. Talks the design to the agent over two days
  2. Repeatedly steers it away from an app store, login page, and settings menu it kept adding
  3. Reviewers check the code and get lightning tips
  4. Working client ships

Why it’s worth knowing

The fight was not getting code written; it was stopping the agent from adding the standard app furniture he did not want.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on njump.me. See the original ↗

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