Building a real app with AI still took one full year
surprisetalk · hn · 2026-07-24
Building a real app with AI took a full year
A long-form post/video recounts the experience of using AI to build a real application over the course of a year.
The takeaway is that AI helped, but shipping a real product still took sustained engineering work, iteration, and patience. It’s a useful reality check for anyone expecting instant app generation from current tools.
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