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ZDNET's key takeaways
Building for Apple Watch is harder than for iPhone, despite smaller scope.
Claude Code felt like a collaborative teammate, not automation.
Iterative AI coding made short, productive work sessions possible.
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After using Claude Code to build an iPhone and a Mac version of my filament management app, I never expected the Apple Watch implementation to give me such a hard time.
That was clearly a failure of imagination. The process of finding the most essential features and making them fit on the very tiniest of Apple screens turned out to be quite a challenge.
Also: 10 things I wish I knew before trusting Claude Code to build my iPhone app
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