This past week I did two very different kinds of "building." On one side: continuing my Swift series, writing functions, testing them in the playground, debugging small mistakes one at a time. On the other: describing an app to Google AI Studio in a paragraph and watching it generate a fully working, deployed web app in minutes.
Doing both in the same stretch of days made the differences between them really obvious — and a few things genuinely surprised me.
Workflow 1: Swift, Line by Line
Writing Swift feels like a conversation with a very precise, very patient teacher who refuses to let you move on until you've gotten the current thing right.
A typical loop looks like:
