Zero to App with AI, Part 1: Write the Docs Before the Code
This is a different kind of post for this blog. Less BGP, more JavaScript. I built and shipped a real app, RepRepo, a workout tracker, essentially over one weekend, working with an AI coding agent (Claude Code, in my case, though most of this translates to any of them). Not a todo list demo either. It has a plans system, PR detection with unit tests, multi-user auth, security hardening, nightly backups, and tagged releases deployed by CI, and it is running on the public internet where I actually use it at the gym. ...