A friend mentioned that he used an anki flashcard app for training himself to remember self improvement tasks. I tried it out and felt like there were somethings missing. I couldn’t skip anything, see my long term performance, or edit specific answers. This was mainly because the app was designed for things like memorizing vocab, not self improvement. However there were some really great features. It is super quick to go through a ton of items and they pop up in a way that makes it feel casual and promotes memorizing the habit naturally.
So I decided to make my own app. I have made a flutter app before, so I went with what I knew. But the time commitment for even something simple can be significant when you are rusty. I thought it would be fun to try writing it completely with LLMs. I already used Cursor previously, with the vim plugin of course, and didn’t write a single line of code myself. Just reviewed and edited. The app is in Testflight now, in review, but I will link when available on the app store.
The experience chatting to create a simple, but complete app was useful but frustrating. I could feed in the whole code base as context but the AI failed to remember new context I would give it. Very often it would forget previous notes about waiting to confirm before editing or notes on creating a dialog to confirm understanding. It also very often overwrote useful code thinking it was no longer useful.
I would say for someone new or rusty with the code and working on a simple project, this approach is fine. If you are quick and familiar with the language, the AI is best used for augmentation, like quickly creating functions. And as the code base size increases and the objectives of the application increase, the lack of intelligence of the model begins to show. The model becomes and increasing time suck of being able to give it the perfect prompt, and even with that most of the time complex logic needs to be manually broken up into chunks.
I am very happy with the app and hopefully you check it out and like it too.