Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI
Summary
A personal exploration of using AI to ideate, spec, and finish a side project: building a fast, keyboard-friendly task switcher (FastTab) in Zig, with AI-guided planning, safe execution in containers, and iterative refinement. The piece emphasizes that AI can handle large portions of coding work, but human judgment and coding expertise are still critical to finish robust applications.