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Building a Mac app with Claude code


How I built Context—a native macOS SwiftUI app for debugging MCP servers—almost entirely with Claude Code, and what I learned about building with AI coding agents.

The SwiftUI code that it produces works fairly well: it is typically an accurate (but somewhat ugly) representation of the UI, and further iteration can turn it into something that genuinely feels well designed and usable. You can prompt the model with vague descriptions, incomplete sentences, and poor spelling and grammar, and it still does a reasonably good job of understanding what you're asking for and breaking down the problem into a series of steps. It's customary for AI product demos to highlight 1 sentence prompts that create "entire apps", but if you want more than a prototype, you need a real spec.

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