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> push notifications to my frontend iOS

> It all kinda just works.

> Can usability test in-tandem.

Man, people say this kind of thing, and I go… really? …because I use Claude code, and an iOS MCP server (1) and hot damn I would not describe the experience as “just works”.

What MCP and model are you using to automate the testing on your device and do automated QA with to, eg. verify your native device notifications are working?

My experience is that Claude is great at writing code, but really terrible at verifying that it works.

What are you using? Not prompts; like, servers or tools or whatever, since obviously Claude doesn’t support this at all out of the box.

(1) - specifically, this one https://github.com/joshuayoes/ios-simulator-mcp

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Claude set up my whole backend on AWS. That includes a load balancer, web server, email server, three application servers, and a bastion server to connect to their VPN.

It configured everything by writing an AWS Terraform file. Stored all secrets in AWS as well.

Everything I do is on the command line with Claude running in Visual Studio Code. I have a lot of MacOS X / Ubuntu Linux command line experience. Watching Claude work is like watching myself working. It blew my mind the first time it connected through the bastion to individual AWS instances to run scripts and check their logs.

So yeah, the same Claude Code instance that configured the backend is running inside a terminal in VS Code where I’m developing the frontend. Backend is Django/Python. Frontend is Flutter/Dart. Claude set up the WebSocket in Django/Gunicorn and the WebSocket in Flutter.

It also walked me through the generation of keys to configure push notifications on iOS. You have to know something about public/private key security, but that amounts to just generating the files in the right formats (PEM vs P12).

? How does any of that let you do QA against the mobile app?

> Can usability test in-tandem

…

> It also walked me through the generation of keys to configure push notifications on iOS.

??? You’re manually doing the testing and setup and not using AI for this?

Im confused at to what part of this mobile work claude is doing that “just works” for you.

I'd like to know too! I feel like many people are playing a whole different AI game than me, and I don't think I've written a single line of code since December (team experiment to optimize the vibe coding process)

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