Toshiaki Watanabe

Toshiaki Watanabe

Founder @ WorldTrend. Indie mobile apps

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13h ago

When did using an AI coding assistant stop saving you time and actually start wasting it?

I ve been relying on AI coding tools a lot more over the last few weeks to speed up my workflow.

At first, it feels like a total cheat code. You hit autocomplete, or drop a quick prompt, and boom syntax errors vanish and boilerplate logic is done in seconds

But lately, I ve hit a wall.

The moment a bug involves a deep state-management issue, multi-file dependencies, or some weird framework edge case, things go sideways fast. The AI starts giving confident answers that turn out to be completely wrong. Before you know it, you ve spent 45 minutes tweaking prompts and reading broken generated code something that a standard console.log or breakpoint would ve caught in 5 minutes

Hi from Japan 👋 Indie mobile app maker here

Hi everyone! I'm Toshiaki, founder of WorldTrend G.K., a small two-person app studio based in Japan.

We build mobile apps with Flutter for a global audience an on-device AI photo upscaler, a code-puzzle app for learning programming, and a dice puzzle game currently in development.

I'm new here and looking forward to learning from other makers, trying out new launches, and sharing honest feedback. Happy to chat about Flutter, indie app development, or app store publishing (iOS/Android)!

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