Builder Methods library
Building with AI in the loop
Modern building is a collaboration with AI, not a handoff. This lesson lays out the worldview the rest of this curriculum is built on.
Access this video with a Builder Methods Pro membership.Join ProUsing AI to build isn’t cheating — it’s how building actually gets done now. But there’s a world of difference between someone shipping real apps with AI and someone stuck in a loop of frustration, and the difference is almost never about which tool they picked. It’s about the process.
In this lesson we’ll break down the difference between an AI “harness” and the “model” inside it, reframe the question everyone asks about which one is best, and walk through the actual build loop you’ll use hundreds of times as you work.
- The difference between an AI harness (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) and the model inside it (Claude, GPT, Gemini)
- Why “which one is best” is the wrong question to ask
- The build loop: describe, plan, build, review, iterate
- The most important reframe in this course: errors are normal and iteration is the work