I'm handcrafting a coffee app with love and AI
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jeremyfelps
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The "AI can't use the app" insight is the sharpest thing in this piece. Same gap shows up in writing too. I just shipped a product launch and learned the hard way that AI assistance can clean up your prose into something perfectly structured that reads as AI-generated to real humans. The model can't sense that it's reading as AI to its audience, just like it can't sense that the UX feels off when it isn't the one tapping through.

The custom /user-feedback skill is clever. The meta-pattern I take from it: AI is good at implementing, terrible at judging. Same reason you couldn't have it pick your color palette. Judgment requires being the person who lives with the result.

Curious if you've found the line between "AI implementation" and "AI starting to drift on judgment." For me it's been somewhere around "when I haven't typed a single sentence of the first draft myself." If I outline, AI execution stays grounded. If AI drafts from scratch, the result loses something I can't always name but readers catch.

Looking forward to seeing Bean.

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