Testing. Sigh.
Claude has made my development loop so intense and rewarding. As I wrote about before, I’m getting the constant dopamine hit of seeing my ideas jump into life and work. It has removed so much of the friction, the stumbling into dark corners that every developer will understand.
But it has not removed the need to constantly test and iterate. There’s no question I’ve spent more time testing with Claude than building. Part of this is I want a highly polished, bug-free experience. And I have 3 build targets (iOS, Mac, iPadOS), with sharing between accounts using iCloudKit.
Claude is an amazing test companion, too. But the debugging process is collaborative and I’m participating in the process. It understands the code at a depth I never could. In fact, the 65,857 lines of Swift code we’ve written together would have taken me months, maybe years working on it in my spare time. But it is a patient teacher, and my understanding of Swift and the Apple platforms has deepened with this project.