Burkov vibe-codes an iOS app from one prompt, ships it to the App Store
burkov · x · 2026-09-23
- Andriy Burkov (author of 'The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book') describes his new workflow: one prompt — 'see the conversational reader feature in the web app; build an iOS app with only that feature, login, offline reading, test in the simulator, submit to the App Store' — and hours later the app was on his daughter's iPhone.
- Last year he vibe-coded a Chrome extension for ChapterPal but gave up on Safari due to bureaucratic friction; now he plans Firefox, Edge, and Android ports via similar prompts ('see the iOS app, implement the same, publish to Google Play').
- His conclusion: 'If this is singularity, then the singularity is here.'
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