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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦
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Flutter GDE ❖ I share tips about Dart & Flutter app development.

Wanna learn Flutter? 👉 https://codewithandrea.com/
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My last Flutter & AI newsletter of the year is out!

📱 Flutter GenUI SDK
⚡️ Build Runner Speedups
🗓️ 2025 LLM Year in Review
📖 MCP Becomes an Open Standard
🔒 Running AI Agents safely inside a DevContainer

You can read it here:

codewithandrea.com/newsletter/d...
December 2025: Flutter GenUI SDK, Build Runner Speedups, 2025 LLM Year in Review
Also included: Material/Cupertino decoupling progress, GPT 5.2 release, running AI agents safely in DevContainers, and MCP becoming an Open Standard.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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After a few headaches, I'm now able to run both Claude Code and Flutter within a sandboxed dev container.

This is great for both safety 🛡️ and speed 🚀

Here's a detailed guide with my complete setup (source code included) 👇

codewithandrea.com/articles/run...
How to Safely Run AI Agents Like Cursor and Claude Code Inside a DevContainer
Learn how to bypass AI permission prompts safely by running Claude Code in an isolated Docker container.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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My Flutter & AI newsletter is out! 📮

🐦 Flutter 3.38 & Dart 3.10
🖥️ Google's Antigravity IDE
🔥 Gemini 3 Pro, Opus 4.5, GPT 5.1
⚠️ Agentic Coding Security Risks
🤮 AI Coding Sucks (interesting take by Syntax .fm)

Read it here 👇
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November 2025: Flutter 3.38, Dart 3.10, The AI Coding Wars (Gemini 3 vs Claude Opus 4.5)
Also included: Google Antigravity IDE, understanding agentic coding security risks, and a different perspective on how AI coding sucks.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Spent the whole day dockerizing my coding setup so I can safely run `claude --dangerously-skip-permissions` and mitigate damage if things go wrong.

Many gotchas along the way. I'll try to share an article once I get it working properly.
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The more I use AI for coding, the more I realize how powerful it is.

But I still feel like a beginner and I now see a long road to real mastery.

My new plan:
- I'll dive deeper and aim to get really good at this
- Once I'm ready, I'll start sharing new content
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Kinda wanted to have a play with Antigravity today, but...
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Just managed to one-shot a video transcription CLI tool (3000+ LOC including tests).

How I did it:

- Written a detailed spec (with some help from AI)
- Used my own custom /plan and /work sub-agents

Claude code did all the work -> AI Agents are getting better!

Quick demo 👇
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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So much cool stuff happening in AI right now, especially for us developers!

Just tested Antigravity with Gemini 3 Pro. 💻

Very nice... but I still miss a few things from Claude Code.

Will publish a video next week!
November 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Been doing some tweaks and polish on my currency converter app.

I built >90% of it with agentic AI and I'm improving my workflows as I go along.

Check it out here:
currency-converter-ab.web.app
Preview of the charts screen on my currency converter app
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Code it yourself, or prompt the AI? 🧐

That's a very valid question, since AI doesn't always get it right.

In my latest video, I offer insights from my experience, along with a decision matrix that will help you save time and avoid frustration.

Watch it here 👇

youtu.be/HOhYX9lA6T8
When to Code vs Prompt with AI
YouTube video by Andrea Bizzotto
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November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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When coding with AI, I follow a fairly simple principle:

If prompting effort > coding effort, code it. 😅

Would it be useful if I made a video with examples, etc?
Effort to code vs Effort to Prompt: my 2x2 matrix 1. Low prompt, Low code - Small UI/animation tweaks - Pull to refresh - Codegen - Simple refactors 2. High prompt, Low code - Line-level instructions - Dense business logic - One-line bug fixes - Layout errors (overflows, unbounded heights, etc) 3. Low prompt, High code - Boilerplate (crash reporting, analytics setup) - Writing tests - Localization - Theming system - Big refactors (AI usually does this in multiple steps + run analyzer ... can be slow) 4. High prompt, High code - Offline caching + syncing - Full-stack features - Background tasks + iOS/Android specific - Complex charting solutions - IAP + entitlements For 1 and 2, use Autocomplete and IDE assists. For 3 and 4, use AI agents for planning, implement in stages, consider verification effort.
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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My Flutter October newsletter is out, covering:

🧩 Flutter & Figma MCP
🧱 Wasm 3.0 release
🎥 FlutterCon EU 2025 Videos
🎧 Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

Read on for all the details:
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October 2025: Flutter & Figma MCP, Platform & UI threads merge, Andrej Karpathy on AGI
Also included: Fluttercon EU videos, Wasm 3.0, my 3-folder system for effective AI coding in Flutter.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Back in the day, many companies used to under-promise and over-deliver, leading to customer satisfaction and long-term business prospects.

Sad to see late-stage capitalism changed this. Now it seems to be the norm (esp. for AI companies) to trick customers and do the opposite.
October 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Super interesting new podcast with Andrej Karpathy!👇
www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-kar...
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”
www.dwarkesh.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Here's a fun game! 🎲

Fully implement a feature, getting as close as possible to 0% context before auto-compacting.
The PR description includes the complete status, implementation details, testing checklist, and next steps. Ready for review! ⏵⏵ accept edits on (shift+tab to cycle) Context left until auto-compact: 0%
October 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Just published a new video about my 3 top folders for agentic AI coding in Flutter! 🚀

Inside, I cover:

⏳ Updated workflow for more consistent AI results
✅ Guidelines to ensure AI stays on track
🧭 Battle-tested patterns, commands and prompts

Watch it here 👇
youtu.be/D68mZzbs6JY
Beyond Prompts: My 3-Folder System for Effective AI Coding in Flutter
YouTube video by Andrea Bizzotto
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October 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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I'm working on a new video about essential folders I use for agentic AI coding.

I'll cover my workflow for:

1️⃣ staying organized
2️⃣ getting consistently good results
3️⃣ reducing friction when coding with AI

Should be out next week! 🗓️
Top 3 Folders for Agentic AI coding in Flutter ai_??? ai_specs ai_docs
October 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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This is kinda how I build with AI these days.

Same for you?
think-plan-build-verify-deliver
October 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Today I built the currency conversion charts for my new app.

Or rather, I wrote the spec, and CC Sonnet 4.5 did all the planning and implementation. 🚀

Got it all done in ~4 hours, even though I wasn't at all familiar with the fl_charts library. Very impressed!
October 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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My Flutter September newsletter is out!

- Riverpod 3.0
- The ultimate guide to migrating to Flutter
- Liquid Glass UI
- AI rules for Flutter and Dart
- Latest from the Flutter community
- Best AI Coding Agents

Read on for all the details 👇

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September 2025: Riverpod 3.0, Migrating to Flutter, Flutter AI Rules, Best AI Agents
Also included: Liquid Glass and the cupertino_native package, Flutter vs web wrappers, AI service issues at Anthropic and OpenAI.
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September 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Did you know?

You can use absolute imports for reusable Dart files that are copy-pasted across projects.

This way, they are always imported correctly (as long as they live in the same location relative to the project root).
If you copy-paste Dart files to a new project, your imports will fail: import 'package:old_app/src/constants/layout_breakpoints.dart'; You can Find & Replace package:old_app with package:new_app to fix them (annoying and not very scalable) Alternatives Relative imports: import '../../constants/layout_breakpoints.dart'; Absolute imports: import '/src/constants/layout_breakpoints.dart'; Absolute imports are handy for files that always live in the same location across multiple projects (e.g. /src/constants) Consider this as a temporary solution. Reusable files should be moved into a common package (works best with monorepo setups).
September 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Very interesting post-mortem from Anthropic about the recent reliability issues:

www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
A postmortem of three recent issues
This is a technical report on three bugs that intermittently degraded responses from Claude. Below we explain what happened, why it took time to fix, and what we're changing.
www.anthropic.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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I'm testing Codex with GPT-5 for my new app.

Haven't tested any complex use cases yet, but so far it seems on par with Claude Code (and quite a bit cheaper to run).

Want a video about it? Like/let me know in the comments.
September 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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I started a new side project. 🚀

Goal: build a simple currency converter app that doesn't suck, using Claude Code & other AI tools.

Here's a very early build (which sucks but it'll get better):
currency-converter-ab.web.app
currency_converter
A new Flutter project.
currency-converter-ab.web.app
September 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
codewithandrea.com
I started a new side project. 🚀

Goal: build a simple currency converter app that doesn't suck, using Claude Code & other AI tools.

Here's a very early build (which sucks but it'll get better):
currency-converter-ab.web.app
currency_converter
A new Flutter project.
currency-converter-ab.web.app
September 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM