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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 17/03/2026

For the past 3 months, I've been building a structured AI workflow for Flutter development. Goal: Make AI write code you can trust. No more vibe coding and hoping for the best. Launching next week — learn more here 👇 agentictoolkit.dev

agentictoolkit.dev

Agentic Coding Toolkit - Spec-driven AI development workflows for Flutter | Agentic Coding Toolkit

Spec-driven AI development workflows for Flutter

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 26/02/2026

If you haven’t tried OpenCode yet, do yourself a favor and take it for a ride! My favorite combo: - OpenCode + gpt-5.3 on ChatGPT Plus plan ($20/month)

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 09/01/2026

Every year I publish a retro about my journey as an educator/content creator. In 2025, things didn't go too well. But hey ho, learning to adapt is part of the job as an entrepreneur. 🤷‍♂️ Here are all the details 👇 codewithandrea.com/meta/my-2025...

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My 2025 in Review: Freefall and a New Direction

A retrospective of my eighth consecutive year as a content creator, making educational content for Flutter developers.

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 22/12/2025

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...

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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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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 03/12/2025

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...

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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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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 28/11/2025

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 👇 codewithandrea.com/newsletter/n...

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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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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 27/11/2025

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.

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 26/11/2025

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

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 22/11/2025

Kinda wanted to have a play with Antigravity today, but...

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 21/11/2025

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 👇

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 21/11/2025

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!

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 14/11/2025

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

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 12/11/2025

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

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When to Code vs Prompt with AI

YouTube video by Andrea Bizzotto

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 06/11/2025

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.

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 24/10/2025

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: codewithandrea.com/newsletter/o...

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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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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 24/10/2025

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.

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 22/10/2025

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%

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 20/10/2025

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

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Beyond Prompts: My 3-Folder System for Effective AI Coding in Flutter

YouTube video by Andrea Bizzotto

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 16/10/2025

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

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 13/10/2025

This is kinda how I build with AI these days. Same for you?

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 03/10/2025

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!

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 26/09/2025

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 👇 codewithandrea.com/newsletter/s...

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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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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 23/09/2025

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).

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 17/09/2025

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.

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 16/09/2025

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-ab.web.app

currency_converter

A new Flutter project.

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 16/09/2025

currency-converter-ab.web.app

currency_converter

A new Flutter project.

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 03/09/2025

I'm gonna start experimenting with the new Flutter MCP server. Have you used it? Found it useful? Any gotchas?

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 03/09/2025

Did you know? Some Matrix4 APIs such as `translate` and `scale` have been deprecated in the latest Flutter 3.35 release. To update them: - Import vector_math explicitly - Use the new APIs which take a Vector3 argument

$// Before Flutter 3.35 Matrix4 deprecated(double x, double y, double scale) { return Matrix4.identity() ..translate(x, y) ..scale(scale, scale, 1.0); } // Since Flutter 3.35 // ignore: depend_on_referenced_packages import 'package:vector_math/vector_math_64.dart'; Matrix4 updated(double x, double y, double scale) { return Matrix4.identity() ..translateByVector3(Vector3(x, y, 0)) ..scaleByVector3(Vector3(scale, scale, 1.0)); }$

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 02/09/2025

Just fixed a thorny issue where my site generator would fail to generate some output folders after a system upgrade. I was unfamiliar with the underlying package causing this -> no chance of fixing on my own. But Claude Code one-shotted the correct diagnosis and fix.💪

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 27/08/2025

I'm back online! The move went well and I'm super happy in my new place. Still a few things to sort out but I'm ready to get back to work!

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 18/07/2025

After 17 years in the UK, I’m moving back to Italy! 🇮🇹 London has been very good to me, but it’s time to start a new chapter in life! Super excited! ☀️

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 09/07/2025

Pretty reasonable dev workflow: - write detailed requirements as an issue on GitHub - ask Claude Code to make a plan - write it to ai_plans/issue#-and-slug.md - let CC implement the plan - review, tweak, test and commit - use CC to push a PR, including the plan in the description

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 08/07/2025

Friendly reminder that both good and bad coding compound over time. AI accelerates that.

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 04/07/2025

As of today, my wife has been putting up with me for 10 years. 😅

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 03/07/2025

CachedNetworkImage wasn't behaving as I wanted in my app, so I just implemented a custom solution with Drift & Riverpod. Best thing of all: Claude Code wrote all the code! All I did was write a detailed spec and make some minor tweaks at the end. Should I make a video about this?

Goal
Replace the current image caching implementation with a built-in solution that is based on SQLite/Drift.

Context
Currently, the app caches images using the CustomCachedNetworkImage widget which is based on CachedNetworkImage from the cached_network_image package.

With CachedNetworkImage, images are automatically cached for 7 days and always deleted afterwards, requiring a new fetch. This can lead to a poor UX because if the app is offline after a cached image has been deleted, the fetch will fail.

Since images very rarely change, they should never be deleted.

Proposed solution
Update the implementation of CustomCachedNetworkImage so it no longer uses CachedNetworkImage. Instead, it should do the following:

if the imageUrl is not already cached
show a placeholder UI (same as currently implemented)
fetch the imageUrl and store it in the database
if fetch is successful
replace the placeholder UI with the rendered image
else
show the error UI (same as currently implemented)
else
retrieve the image from the DB and show it in the UI
Database implementation details
Update app_database.dart by adding a new ImagesCache table that will be used to store all the fetched images
The table should have the following fields:
imageUrl (String)
imageData (blob representing the fetched image)
checksum (useful for updates)
updatedAt (when the data was written)
Run build_runner after defining the table, so it can be imported and it compiles successfully.

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 02/07/2025

Looks like generating docs is an interesting problem with different solutions and tradeoffs. Need some more time to research this.

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 01/07/2025

I spent the last few days solving one problem: How to generate ACCURATE documentation for existing Flutter codebases using AI. This proved harder than expected, but I now have a reliable pipeline that can run on any project. Should I make a video about it?

1. **Find Project Root and Setup Working Directory**
2. **Extract Complete Project Structure**
3. **Extract Core Code Elements**
4. **Discover Project Patterns**
5. **Analyze Architecture Patterns**
6. **Create Intelligent Groupings**
7. **Generate Fact Sheet**
8. **Generate Documentation Prompt**
9. **Generate Final Documentation**
10. **Cleanup**

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 01/07/2025

Taking a new shiny tool for a ride 👇 Will report back 🙂

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 01/07/2025

Some people asked me if Claude Max is worth it. To find out, you can check your usage data with: npx ccusage@latest Here are my stats for last month 👇

➜ ~ npx ccusage@latest monthly

WARN Fetching latest model pricing from LiteLLM... ccusage 08:35:02

ℹ Loaded pricing for 1140 models ccusage 08:35:02

╭────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ Claude Code Token Usage Report - Monthly │
│ │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────╯

┌──────────┬──────────────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────────┬────────────┬──────────────┬────────────┐
│ Month │ Models │ Input │ Output │ Cache Create │ Cache Read │ Total Tokens │ Cost (USD) │
├──────────┼──────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────────┼────────────┼──────────────┼────────────┤
│ 2025-06 │ - opus-4 │ 45,657 │ 166,255 │ 6,333,383 │ 68,195,460 │ 74,740,755 │ $118.82 │
│ │ - sonnet-4 │ │ │ │ │ │ │
├──────────┼──────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────────┼────────────┼──────────────┼────────────┤
│ Total │ │ 45,657 │ 166,255 │ 6,333,383 │ 68,195,460 │ 74,740,755 │ $118.82 │
└──────────┴──────────────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────────┴────────────┴──────────────┴────────────┘

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 28/06/2025

I asked Claude to generate documentation for one of my projects. First, it estimated 8-10 days based on human work. Then it proceeded to do it all in 20 minutes! There were some minor inaccuracies, but that's still a ~200x time saving...

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 27/06/2025

My latest newsletter is out! 📅 For a change, this month I've chosen to cover primarily AI-related stuff! 🔍 Apple Liquid Glass 💬 Software 3.0 ⌨️ AI-assisted coding (no vibes) 🤖 12 lessons from AI pair programming Read on for all the details 👇 codewithandrea.com/newsletter/j...

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June 2025: Apple Liquid Glass, Software 3.0, how to use LLMs, AI-Assisted coding, Claude Code Crash Course

Also included: 12 lessons from AI pair programming, and my code review of an open-source Flutter app with 100K+ lines of code.

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 25/06/2025

My crash course about Claude Code is live! 📹 What’s inside: ✅ My planning & development workflow 💡 Tips for using CC effectively 💻 Building a Flutter app from scratch (letting AI do the heavy lifting!) ✨ Bridging the gap to a production-ready app Here's the full video! ▶️ youtu.be/FNpQawHnIrI?...

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Build Flutter Apps FASTER with Claude Code Opus 4 [Crash Course]

YouTube video by Andrea Bizzotto

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 25/06/2025

Lol I started getting creative with my TikTok marketing 😅

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 24/06/2025

My latest video is nearly ready, and it's a long one! Inside, I'll show you how Claude Code has changed my workflow, and how to make the most of it.

Preview thumbnail of my latest YouTube video about building Flutter apps faster with Claude Code.

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Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦 @codewithandrea.com · 23/06/2025

Just launched my newest "Voice Timer" app (iOS only). If you're curious, you can download it for free and try it here. 👇 voicetimerapp.com

voicetimerapp.com

Voice Timer App

A voice-activated timer app for your calisthenics workouts.

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