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AI-assisted app development
AI can scaffold a Power App in an afternoon. What it can't do is own the result — that's still you. The build surface you pick is a governance decision, the design contract is your control surface, and the boring parts AI skips are the ones that bite. AI accelerates the job. It doesn't shrink your responsibility.
- 1Six ways to build a Power App in 2026The way you build a Power App is more than just a taste decision. It’s a decision for which responsibility you want to own. Sounds dramatic until you …
- 2The design contract is AI's control surfaceYou don't get reliable AI-built apps by writing a better prompt. You get them by giving the agent less room to invent. If that sounds backwards, think…
- 3I froze at a blank spec file. Here's how AI got me building.You do not need to know how to start. You need something to react to. That was the lesson that finally got me moving. I had just come home from the Eu…
- 4Green tests, broken app: my take on building with AII split the build into ten phases. The first interface to write to Dataverse was implemented in phase two. It took me until phase ten to realise that …