Building a real production app with AI as a non-traditional developer

Draft outline. The full story is still to be written.

The starting point

• Coming from enterprise consulting rather than a software engineering career.

The project

• An event workforce platform, anonymised: recruitment through to payslips.

How AI-assisted development fitted in

• Next.js, Supabase, Prisma and Vercel, built with Claude Code.

What I still had to decide myself

• Requirements, trade-offs and what to leave out.

Running it for real

• Staged releases, tests and change control.

Lessons

• To be written in my own words.