Chris Ching

Last night, i should've worked on my app but i caved and watched a weird c-drama on netflix instead. Now i regret. AI is constantly making me feel like im in a race. If i'm not building, i'm missing out on... i dont even know. Do you get this feeling?

Do you use Previews in Xcode when you're building your views? I got into the habit of deleting them and one of my students pointed out how useful they can be. We want to hear more opinions and perspectives!

Looking to learn swift programming? I've been releasing a new video everyday and there's 10 lessons in the series so far. Give this a try! youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Just a quick update that Lesson 3 of the Learn Swift series is out! :)

Trying to rebuild the habit of creating and releasing videos! So out of practice haha Here's Lesson 2 of the Learn Swift video series:

@runstop Thanks for your support Paul! :)

@CodeWithChris Let’s go! 👨‍💻

Back to creating coding tutorials :) Rebooting the Learn Swift for beginners video series. Starting with Lesson 1 released today!

Video here: youtu.be/H3kgN0TuLVc

What do you think about these strategies? Follow for more tips and insights on coding with AI.

Number 3, a planning-based strategy  This goes back to pre-development where you need to define the app architecture first, and use AI to fill in small pieces, making you to always be in the driver’s seat.  A planning-based strategy also means you have to spend a lot of time on your requirements to reduce ambiguity and consider edge cases for your app.

I just built multiple vibe-coded or AI-coded apps this year, and I can confidently say that maintaining them is incredibly difficult.  But here are 3 strategies that have been reducing errors for me, and I hope they’ll help you too:

Always an easy recommend from me:

Quality of results: With all that said, how do they actually perform? Well, I asked both of them to build a breathing exercise app without any instruction for the UI. Left image is from Claude Code. Right one is from Cursor, which the audience preferred. How about you?

Considerations: Cursor has a free plan, whereas Claude Code needs a paid plan (starting at $17 usd/month) Claude Code has a weekly limit and a session limit which resets each 5 hrs. If you hit the session limit, you can wait until it resets in 5 hours.

So last week I just hosted a stream about Claude Code and compared it against Cursor. Here’s what I found.