How I built an app just by talking to an AI LLM – the good, the bad, and what I’d do differently next time (part one)


 

Like most of you, I’ve been using AI large language models (LLMs) at work and at hobby level for a couple of years now. Snippets of code, the odd data conversion, a small database for a presentation.

What I hadn’t done — and what kept nagging at me — was build an entire application, end-to-end, through AI. Nothing more, nothing less. So that’s what this series is about. I’m building a real, small, useful application called dbRosetta, and I’m doing as much of it as possible by talking to an LLM.

The premise is deliberately tiny. Different databases give different