My issue started as taking on a side project sports league app and web as it was insane to attempt as a solo dev – all-in-one sports community with social feed, league mgmt, live broadcasting, payouts for trainers/refs, travel/venue bookings, waze type live field conditions, AI assistant gluing it all together. web + ios + android + desktop as a solo dev. do everything to matter in this space in other words, every small tweak (chat sync, payment edge case, broadcast switch, booking conflict, field update prop, AI response consistency) meant i had to spin up browser + ios sim + android emu + desktop, play different roles (fan/player/parent/coach/ref/vendor/manager), manually poke everything, stare to see if sync held without desync/crash/security fuckups. There was just not enough time to get it done within a year if I had to manually check things worked every time.
I thought ok if AI coding can actually see and drive to check its work but in a meaningful deeper way, that would let it stop proclaiming "It worked!" when it didn't. What if it could actually know while its developing? In the past I worked with puppeteer, playwright for web and tried some mobile stuff that seemed very heterogeneous and even tried vision calls that was super expensive. None of those would be deep enough anyway, I needed one approach and those others were also slow or super expensive with vision, there had to be a better way. Why not JSON state that bubbles up server errors too with a local socket server making it fly?
I was in shock for 2 days that it worked so well. It just built out the apps in about a month as it could go build -> verify did it work? -> iterate (repeat) -> done... but this time done meant it actually tried it and it worked and could even interplay devices across web and mobile. So my problem is now trying to show my sports connected, non tech cofounder how to use it so he can give meaningful demos to prospective clients.
Meanwhile, it might just be worth your time to check out autonomo mcp.
https://sebringj.github.io/autonomo/ https://github.com/sebringj/autonomo
Hoping to see where it evolves with enough feedback as I tend to be a hermit in a vacuum.