Indie iOS dev: "It's over" — Claude Code wrote 49 of his 50 app intents, ending hand-coded work
JordanMorgan10 · x · 2026-09-30
Indie iOS developer Jordan Morgan declares the era of hand-writing code over. In summer 2025, after crafting Alyx's first App Intent himself, he pointed Claude Code at it and it built the remaining 49, leaving him as product manager and code reviewer. He describes the emotional arc — feeling useless, uneasy dependence ("stockholm syndrome"), then acceptance — arguing the engineer's role has irreversibly changed rather than died, echoing DHH's viral Rails World keynote.
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