Ryan Saunders

01What I do

I'm a full-time professional iOS developer and tinkerer. During the day, I contribute to new features and address bugs in production. In my downtime, I work on app projects to solve real problems I've encountered, even if it's as simple as wanting to play Solitaire without distraction.

02How AI fits in

I'm always excited to explore a new tool. AI isn't just a tool, it's a tool that can build me other tools. When ChatGPT became available, it quickly replaced my first Google search for syntax-related questions. Then it helped me with larger framework-related issues like a nasty Core Data bug. It wasn't writing code for me yet, but given the right context it was helping unblock some things I was really stuck on.

Fast-forward to today. Claude Code is part of my 9-5 work life, and it writes more code than I do. I was hesitant about this new paradigm, but with the support and encouragement of my workplace and peers I've been able to fully integrate AI into both my professional and personal workflows, letting each benefit the other.

At work, I follow the standards of AI development set down by my organization, while contributing to new and existing skills for our AI agents. At home, I pursue an even more aggressive AI automation pipeline, using Nexus as my Jira-replacement to manage my tickets no matter how vaguely-defined. Some projects I review manually, eithers are almost fully-automated down to the final merge.