5 Hacks to Speed Up Your AI Coding Workflow

(CopyCoder, Flowvoice, Claude, v0 and more)

Hey Warrior,

In the past, creating an app could take weeks or even months.

But now, with the power of AI, you can get it done in just days or hours (Without even having to write any code).

That's pretty crazy already.

But if you're a Prompt wWarrior, you want to go even faster…

Today I want to show you a few tools and tips to make your AI coding workflow faster than ever.

If you prefer watching over reading, check out this video here:

Here's what we'll cover:

  • CopyCoder for quick clones

  • Flowvoice to ditch the keyboard

  • Planning your project with Claude

  • V0 to nail your design

  • Why going slow will help you go fast

Read time: 5 minutes

Before we start, let me tell you about something my friend Alex has created:

One of the best ways to launch and get some initial traction for the app you’ve built with AI, is to use ProductHunt.

But planning a ProductHunt launch can be quite stressful and there are a lot of things you need to think about to maximize these launches.

That’s why Alex has focused on helping founders plan, run and optimize these launches with a lot of success.

And he wanted to give out a free checklist exclusively to the Prompt Warrior readers to help you get started easily:

If you have any questions related to Product Hunt or are considering launching your own product there, reach out to Alex on Twitter or by email: [email protected]

🖨️ CopyCoder for Quick Clones

You might have seen that we recently released a new tool called CopyCoder.

It lets you easily clone existing apps or designs just from a screenshot.

You can read a more detailed breakdown here.

But in a nutshell, here's how it works:

  1. Take a screenshot of your app or design

  2. Put it into CopyCoder to generate prompts

  3. Paste these prompts into Cursor and build your clone in a few minutes

This workflow speeds things up considerably.

And it gets you a good basis to work from. From there, you can keep iterating on the app to make it production-ready.

🎙️ Flowvoice to Ditch the Keyboard

This tool has been a game changer for me, not just for coding, but also for other tasks I do on a daily basis. But especially with AI coding, it is extremely useful.

What is Flowvoice? It's basically a dictation app that works with AI in the background.

This means that it's really fast and actually works, unlike some older dictation apps.

The best part is that it can take the context from your screen and will even make small adjustments and improvements to whatever you're saying.

And it's just super fast. (I'm actually using it right now to write this newsletter!)

For coding with AI, Flowvoice is incredibly handy because:

  1. You don't have to write any prompts. Just talk to the AI and Flowvoice will immediately translate what you said, put it into the composer, and you can hit enter and run it. This way, you can keep iterating and go a lot faster!

  2. The AI usually understands things and interprets them correctly, without needing you to type them out very explicitly. Even if there are small errors in it or it's not totally clear.

🗒️ Planning Your Project with Claude

I see a lot of people make the mistake of jumping into a coding project way too quickly.

This usually ends up with you going slower later due to the lack of planning.

You might end up stuck because you don't know which feature to implement next. Or you thought of something new that you want to implement and now need to rework the old feature.

That's why it's a good idea to plan out a project before jumping in.

That way, you know exactly which features to implement in what order and what kind of dependencies to look out for.

Here’s an example how I started planning one of my apps:

When I tackle bigger projects, I always do a planning phase with Claude first. In that planning phase, I want to answer a few questions:

  • What features should I have in this app?

  • How will the whole architecture work?

  • Do I have any knowledge gaps or things that I don't yet understand fully?

Once I’ve answered those questions, I ask Claude to summarize our discussion into a Product Requirements Documentation, which I can take into the next step.

Even later on, when I've started building my project, I often still go back to this chat, which has all the context, and I can ask further questions there.

🎨 v0 to nail your design

That product requirement doc from earlier comes in handy now because the next step in planning is to plan your design.

And v0 is perfect for doing that.

You can think of V0 as your personal designer.

Previously, if you were the CEO or product owner who came up with the requirements for a product, you would take it to your designer and go through several rounds of mockups and planning.

But with V0, you can do this in minutes.

What I like to do is to just paste my product requirements into V0 and see what it comes up with.

From there, I can iterate on it and change the things I don't like, or maybe adopt some of the things I didn't think about before.

🐢 Go Slow to Go Fast

This last one might be slightly counterintuitive.

But my advice is that if you go slower, you will go faster in the end.

Let me explain what I mean.

Most of the time with AI coding, the thing that costs you the most time is when you get stuck somewhere and the AI just keeps going in loops, and you cannot fix something that was broken.

And 99% of the time this happens because you wanted to do too much with the AI.

The AI will get ahead of itself, break a bunch of things, and you won't be able to keep track of what was broken.

So the best way to code with AI is to go in really small, incremental steps. This has two benefits:

  1. The AI breaks fewer things because smaller steps are easier to implement

  2. You also understand more of what was implemented, making it easier for you to identify when something has been broken and to direct the AI back on how to fix it

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