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I gave the AI my firmware and it built the iOS app for it

He had never written Swift. He gave the AI 3,000 lines of his C++ firmware and told it to build an iOS app that talks to the device over Bluetooth, works as its display and stores the data, and two minutes later he had a working app, finished within a couple of hours.

How it works

  1. Gives the AI 3,000 lines of his C++ firmware
  2. Tells it to create an iOS app that uses Bluetooth, acts as the display and handles data storage
  3. A working app runs two minutes later
  4. A couple of hours later the app is complete and every change compiles and runs

Why it’s worth knowing

He handed over firmware in a language the app did not use and had never written Swift himself. The working app came back in two minutes.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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