How I Built an iOS App MVP in 4 Hours: A Blueprint for AI-Driven Development
The internet is flooded with claims of “I built an app in 5 minutes with AI.” As a software engineer, I know the reality is completely different. Generating a script is easy; architecting a scalable, maintainable iOS app with excellent UX is hard. This weekend, I challenged myself to build a production-ready MVP for an inventory management app called ItemMaster in just 4 hours using Claude Code. I didn’t achieve this by typing a magical, one-shot prompt. I did it by treating the AI not as a senior developer, but as a hyper-fast junior developer that needs a strict, bulletproof engineering and product workflow. ...