9 min readUpdated September 22, 2026
What actually happens when AI builds an app?
A step-by-step account of what an AI building tool does between your sentence and a working page: planning, file writes, dependencies, database changes and deployment.
AI Building
What AI coding tools actually do when they write and wire up an application for you.
8 min readUpdated September 22, 2026
How AI coding tools work
Inside an AI coding tool: the model, the context window, the tool calls, the build loop, and why the wrapper around the model matters as much as the model.
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