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I'm still reeling from the fact that this is possible, never mind viable.

I tried this conversion process before, perhaps a year ago, with the agent feature on ChatGPT and got nowhere.

There's clearly been a lot of progress made here in a short amount of time.

Sticking with Steve, but kind of, you know, on a different subject, Steve writes three apps from zero to functional in a day.

This is the biggest change to Xcode and Project Builder in its entire history dropped on a random Tuesday when the 26.3 beta was released.

So Steve went from zero apps to three that were functional in the span of a day.

And then finally from Steve, building one app used 7% of my weekly codex usage limit.

Compare that to a single awful slideshow and keynote using 47% of my monthly Apple Creator Studio usage limit.

Yikes.

So we used Steve Trout and Smith as an example of yay AI.

There's been a couple of posts that have been making the rounds recently and that several of you had pointed out to us.

That's kind of about like AI dread and fatalism.

We're not going to really talk about them right this second, but I wanted to call them to your attention.

Again, links in the show notes.

We Mourn Our Craft by Nolan Lawson and The Tipping Point by Thomas Ricard.

I probably pronounced that wrong.

I'm sorry.

But there's a couple of like more pessimistic takes on AI and what that means for development and software engineering and so on.

Which I think are worth your time.

Whether or not you agree with them, I think it's interesting.