Andrea Bizzotto 🇺🇦

If you haven’t tried OpenCode yet, do yourself a favor and take it for a ride!

My favorite combo:
- OpenCode + gpt-5.3 on ChatGPT Plus plan ($20/month)

February 2026: Flutter 3.41, 16 Claudes Build a C Compiler, the OpenClaw Security Crisis, and GPT-5.3 Codex Also included: why the SDLC is dead, the importance of documentation artifacts for AI coding, and why code is cheap but software isn't.

My February newsletter is out, covering:

- Flutter 3.41
- GPT 5.3 Codex
- 16 Claudes building a C compiler
- The OpenClaw Security Crisis

and much more.

Read it here:
codewithandrea.com/newsletter/f...

My 2025 in Review: Freefall and a New Direction A retrospective of my eighth consecutive year as a content creator, making educational content for Flutter developers.

Every year I publish a retro about my journey as an educator/content creator.

In 2025, things didn't go too well. But hey ho, learning to adapt is part of the job as an entrepreneur. 🤷‍♂️

Here are all the details 👇
codewithandrea.com/meta/my-2025...

December 2025: Flutter GenUI SDK, Build Runner Speedups, 2025 LLM Year in Review Also included: Material/Cupertino decoupling progress, GPT 5.2 release, running AI agents safely in DevContainers, and MCP becoming an Open Standard.

My last Flutter & AI newsletter of the year is out!

📱 Flutter GenUI SDK
⚡️ Build Runner Speedups
🗓️ 2025 LLM Year in Review
📖 MCP Becomes an Open Standard
🔒 Running AI Agents safely inside a DevContainer

You can read it here:

codewithandrea.com/newsletter/d...

How to Safely Run AI Agents Like Cursor and Claude Code Inside a DevContainer Learn how to bypass AI permission prompts safely by running Claude Code in an isolated Docker container.

After a few headaches, I'm now able to run both Claude Code and Flutter within a sandboxed dev container.

This is great for both safety 🛡️ and speed 🚀

Here's a detailed guide with my complete setup (source code included) 👇

codewithandrea.com/articles/run...

November 2025: Flutter 3.38, Dart 3.10, The AI Coding Wars (Gemini 3 vs Claude Opus 4.5) Also included: Google Antigravity IDE, understanding agentic coding security risks, and a different perspective on how AI coding sucks.

My Flutter & AI newsletter is out! 📮

🐦 Flutter 3.38 & Dart 3.10
🖥️ Google's Antigravity IDE
🔥 Gemini 3 Pro, Opus 4.5, GPT 5.1
⚠️ Agentic Coding Security Risks
🤮 AI Coding Sucks (interesting take by Syntax .fm)

Read it here 👇
codewithandrea.com/newsletter/n...

Spent the whole day dockerizing my coding setup so I can safely run `claude --dangerously-skip-permissions` and mitigate damage if things go wrong.

Many gotchas along the way. I'll try to share an article once I get it working properly.

The more I use AI for coding, the more I realize how powerful it is.

But I still feel like a beginner and I now see a long road to real mastery.

My new plan:
- I'll dive deeper and aim to get really good at this
- Once I'm ready, I'll start sharing new content

Kinda wanted to have a play with Antigravity today, but...

Just managed to one-shot a video transcription CLI tool (3000+ LOC including tests).

How I did it:

- Written a detailed spec (with some help from AI)
- Used my own custom /plan and /work sub-agents

Claude code did all the work -> AI Agents are getting better!

Quick demo 👇

So much cool stuff happening in AI right now, especially for us developers!

Just tested Antigravity with Gemini 3 Pro. 💻

Very nice... but I still miss a few things from Claude Code.

Will publish a video next week!

It uses fl_chart

Preview of the charts screen on my currency converter app

Been doing some tweaks and polish on my currency converter app.

I built >90% of it with agentic AI and I'm improving my workflows as I go along.

Check it out here:
currency-converter-ab.web.app

When to Code vs Prompt with AI YouTube video by Andrea Bizzotto

Code it yourself, or prompt the AI? 🧐

That's a very valid question, since AI doesn't always get it right.

In my latest video, I offer insights from my experience, along with a decision matrix that will help you save time and avoid frustration.

Watch it here 👇

youtu.be/HOhYX9lA6T8

Effort to code vs Effort to Prompt: my 2x2 matrix 1. Low prompt, Low code - Small UI/animation tweaks - Pull to refresh - Codegen - Simple refactors 2. High prompt, Low code - Line-level instructions - Dense business logic - One-line bug fixes - Layout errors (overflows, unbounded heights, etc) 3. Low prompt, High code - Boilerplate (crash reporting, analytics setup) - Writing tests - Localization - Theming system - Big refactors (AI usually does this in multiple steps + run analyzer ... can be slow) 4. High prompt, High code - Offline caching + syncing - Full-stack features - Background tasks + iOS/Android specific - Complex charting solutions - IAP + entitlements For 1 and 2, use Autocomplete and IDE assists. For 3 and 4, use AI agents for planning, implement in stages, consider verification effort.

When coding with AI, I follow a fairly simple principle:

If prompting effort > coding effort, code it. 😅

Would it be useful if I made a video with examples, etc?

Really sorry for only answering now. Life's been busy these last few months, and I haven't had much free bandwidth.

When are you running your livestreams? If I can fit it in my schedule, I'll let you know.

October 2025: Flutter & Figma MCP, Platform & UI threads merge, Andrej Karpathy on AGI Also included: Fluttercon EU videos, Wasm 3.0, my 3-folder system for effective AI coding in Flutter.

My Flutter October newsletter is out, covering:

🧩 Flutter & Figma MCP
🧱 Wasm 3.0 release
🎥 FlutterCon EU 2025 Videos
🎧 Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

Read on for all the details:
codewithandrea.com/newsletter/o...

Back in the day, many companies used to under-promise and over-deliver, leading to customer satisfaction and long-term business prospects.

Sad to see late-stage capitalism changed this. Now it seems to be the norm (esp. for AI companies) to trick customers and do the opposite.

Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away "The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”

Super interesting new podcast with Andrej Karpathy!👇
www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-kar...

The PR description includes the complete status, implementation details, testing checklist, and next steps. Ready for review! ⏵⏵ accept edits on (shift+tab to cycle) Context left until auto-compact: 0%

Here's a fun game! 🎲

Fully implement a feature, getting as close as possible to 0% context before auto-compacting.

Beyond Prompts: My 3-Folder System for Effective AI Coding in Flutter YouTube video by Andrea Bizzotto

Just published a new video about my 3 top folders for agentic AI coding in Flutter! 🚀

Inside, I cover:

⏳ Updated workflow for more consistent AI results
✅ Guidelines to ensure AI stays on track
🧭 Battle-tested patterns, commands and prompts

Watch it here 👇
youtu.be/D68mZzbs6JY

Top 3 Folders for Agentic AI coding in Flutter ai_??? ai_specs ai_docs

I'm working on a new video about essential folders I use for agentic AI coding.

I'll cover my workflow for:

1️⃣ staying organized
2️⃣ getting consistently good results
3️⃣ reducing friction when coding with AI

Should be out next week! 🗓️

Still there. But I get consistently better results with the right guardrails in place.

think-plan-build-verify-deliver

This is kinda how I build with AI these days.

Same for you?

The app still needs some tweaks, but you can try the updated web version here:
currency-converter-ab.web.app

Today I built the currency conversion charts for my new app.

Or rather, I wrote the spec, and CC Sonnet 4.5 did all the planning and implementation. 🚀

Got it all done in ~4 hours, even though I wasn't at all familiar with the fl_charts library. Very impressed!

September 2025: Riverpod 3.0, Migrating to Flutter, Flutter AI Rules, Best AI Agents Also included: Liquid Glass and the cupertino_native package, Flutter vs web wrappers, AI service issues at Anthropic and OpenAI.

My Flutter September newsletter is out!

- Riverpod 3.0
- The ultimate guide to migrating to Flutter
- Liquid Glass UI
- AI rules for Flutter and Dart
- Latest from the Flutter community
- Best AI Coding Agents

Read on for all the details 👇

codewithandrea.com/newsletter/s...

If you copy-paste Dart files to a new project, your imports will fail: import 'package:old_app/src/constants/layout_breakpoints.dart'; You can Find & Replace package:old_app with package:new_app to fix them (annoying and not very scalable) Alternatives Relative imports: import '../../constants/layout_breakpoints.dart'; Absolute imports: import '/src/constants/layout_breakpoints.dart'; Absolute imports are handy for files that always live in the same location across multiple projects (e.g. /src/constants) Consider this as a temporary solution. Reusable files should be moved into a common package (works best with monorepo setups).

Did you know?

You can use absolute imports for reusable Dart files that are copy-pasted across projects.

This way, they are always imported correctly (as long as they live in the same location relative to the project root).

A postmortem of three recent issues This is a technical report on three bugs that intermittently degraded responses from Claude. Below we explain what happened, why it took time to fix, and what we're changing.

Very interesting post-mortem from Anthropic about the recent reliability issues:

www.anthropic.com/engineering/...

I'm testing Codex with GPT-5 for my new app.

Haven't tested any complex use cases yet, but so far it seems on par with Claude Code (and quite a bit cheaper to run).

Want a video about it? Like/let me know in the comments.