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WorldLock

A native Android AR app pinning city towers, the Earth and the live ISS to where they actually are — built by an agent-driven workflow, no IDE and no cable.

3 parts

  1. Part 1

    WorldLock: an AR window onto the actual planet

    A native Android AR app that georegisters city towers, the whole Earth and the live ISS to the real world with ARCore's Geospatial API.

    5 min read

  2. Part 2

    Android development with Claude, no IDE, no cable

    How WorldLock is built, deployed and debugged with three CLI commands, wireless adb and a coding agent that reads logcat and screenshots. No Android Studio.

    4 min read

  3. Part 3

    Ponytail: making the AI a lazy senior dev (is it any good?)

    WorldLock was built with Claude Code in ponytail mode, an AI playing a lazy senior dev. What it did to the code, and how it fared replaying a real PR review.

    7 min read