I Taught an Agent to Build TV Apps: Lessons from Building a Coding Harness
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An AI-driven harness is built that actually generates runnable TV apps (React Native, Kotlin Multiplatform, Android TV, Fire TV Vega) by chaining phased agents: planning, scaffolding from templates, screen generation, navigation, build/verify loops and visual QA with screenshots. Tools integrated: Strands/Claude agent SDKs, ADB, Gradle, Android CLI, Expo and Vega CLIs; runs take 30–40 minutes per full build, cost about ~$5 per run, and the system auto‑creates skills as markdown while logging every artifact and fixes failures in repeatable loops.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00TV app development challenges
- 6:37AI struggles with TV apps
- 11:16AI agent for TV apps
- 18:40Tooling for TV app creation
- 26:59Live demo of AI harness
- 31:17Android tooling layers
- 34:32Testing loops and visual QA
- 40:31Model selection and cost
- 42:18Results and future of AI-driven TV apps
- 44:45Key takeaways and Q&A
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