Corey Burmeister

Update on new Listify features, and experiments with Wap and ChatGPT 5: Warp is running a $5 ChatGPT promotion (https://www.warp.dev/), integrated with their Agentic terminal/dev environment. I've been using Gemini Pro and the Gemini CLI so far to build Listify (https://lnkd.in/gmU5YdUE), my hobbyist AI+flutter powered list management app, but thought I'd give ChatGPT 5 a chance for comparisons sake and to see how smoothly the LLMs could hand off the codebase. Observations: - Handoff was seamless, GPT5 had no problems understanding the code base and working with it. - I really didn't see a big difference in coding capabilities between GPT 5 and Gemini Pro 2.5, but it's true this is not an extremely challenging app. - GPT5 has much better testing discipline than Gemini Pro; it suggested adding a number of tests whereas Gemini never even considered to offer. - The Warp terminal is definitely better than Gemini CLI due to the greater power that Warp offers; e.g. formatting is richer, you can upload images and easily specify files as context, and the collapsible sections provide a better experience for looking at diffs and log output. - I am still uncertain if the agentic environment of the future will look more like a browser, an IDE, or a terminal. Toggling back and forth between terminal mode and agentic mode in Warp is awkward. While you can give commands like "git push" to the LLM instead of the shell, it is terribly slow to respond. Since I last wrote, I've added the following features: - an AI-powered autosort and group feature. For example, if you have a shopping list, it will be break it into labeled sections like "produce", "dairy", "snacks", where each section contains things that are likely to be nearby in the store. This makes shopping faster. - an "Export to Google Tasks" feature to the app for people who like tahe scanning/parsing features of Listify but want to live in Google Tasks. (The backend but not UI integration was done so let GPT5 take over the UI. - more optimistic updates to make the UI feel snappier. - I also added a feature that lets you add a section header by long pressing on add item. Obigatory plug: Please LMK if you'd like to be a tester for the Android version of Listify, I still need to get to 12 testers to get it listed on the main app store for convenience of download. The web link above gives you an idea of the feature set but the mobile experience is much better. I still also need to get the iOS version up but haven't jumped through all the certifcate hoops.

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3 is exactly my threshhold also. By the third time you write some little piece of code, the variables are named better, you've added more checks for error conditions, you've removed debug code for issues that are solved, you've written more extensive comments. While if you just wrote the code once and force-fit it into a reusable form, you likely wouldn't have made those improvements.

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