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Oh, this is so cool.

I love this.

Oh, cool.

Now we've got this modify button here.

This is perfect.

So I click modify.

Oh, yes, it's got this here.

This is amazing.

Awesome.

Oh, it even updates this helper text.

I love that.

I love that so much.

Now, I want to make one thing very clear.

I know how to code, but that doesn't mean you do.

And that's why you're here.

I'm going to teach you to build this stuff without even needing to code.

If you think you're going to walk away from this video figuring out how to build apps with AI, figure it out with Gemini,

and not learn anything, you can just turn this off.

Now, we're here to learn.

We're here to do some incredible stuff.

I want to change the game for you.

So if you're the type of person who's been thinking, I really want to build this stuff, but it all sounds a little hard.

I feel like I need to be able to code.

I don't know the tools.

I don't know where to start.

You're in the right place.

Hello, hello, hello.

Welcome everybody to the inaugural episode of Build It.

Without further ado, let's kick off our very first project.

This is something that is near and dear to my heart.

Fitness.

Well, when you work a lot, you got to take care of your body.

It's very important and I think I figured out the key to creating an agent.

The easiest way to spin up an agent, chatting it up in the Gemini web app.

Yeah, I know it sounds crazy.

And that, my friends, is what I did in order to spin up my very own customizable personal trainer application.

It was just chatting.

It was pretty sweet.

I'll show you.

Give me a workout plan for today.

This full body equipment free workout takes about 25 to 30 minutes and can be done anywhere.

Look at this workout.

This is great.

Got some weights.

Can you incorporate that into my workout?

This dumbbell focused full body workout takes about 30 to 35 minutes.

What is a dumbbell goblet?

A goblet refers to the specific way you hold a single dumbbell against your chest during exercises

so it resembles holding a large goblet or chalice.

Cheers.

I like the sound of that.

Hold up, hold up.

I also want to incorporate running into my weekly workout.

So are there any adjustments you'd make?

Adding running to your strength routine is great for cardiorespiratory fitness.

So we've got a weekly schedule.

All right, terrific.

Now, here's the thing.

I can go ahead and I can keep customizing this.

So I actually did this on my own and I did this in preparation for a Spartan race.

And if anyone knows what that is, it's a 5K obstacle course race.

I wanted to do it right.

And I found Gemini was such a helpful partner.

Here's the reason why.

Not only was I training for that, but I'm in a men's slow pitch softball league, which near and dear to my heart.

I didn't want my workouts to affect my performance.

You know, my like two at -bats when I'm out there trying to hit for power.

Or maybe, you know, my golf game, whatever it may be.

I don't want to have sore legs.

So it was very cool how I could tell Gemini all this different information about what I'm up to, what my goals are.

It'll fully customize my workouts here.

However, there were definitely some drawbacks of this agent.

It would often forget what day it is, what I did yesterday and it would get a little confused about timing.

But my biggest gripe was from a usability standpoint because if you're like me, when you're in the zone, you just want to keep going.

You want to keep doing your thing.

Got my music blasting and my headphones.

I'm grooving and I got to kind of go back and find, what was it?

All right, dumbbell, goblet, right here.

Got my focus.

So this user experience is not great.

The memory wasn't great.

And it was also very much over -indexing on the things I was trying to focus on.

Like, for example, oh, I've got a, I said one time, I said, I've got a double header in softball tomorrow.

Make sure my legs aren't too sore.

And for every other workout that I did, it always assumed I had a double header.

And, you know, this is very cool because think about this.

On the one hand, you've got an agent that's so smart

that it's able to take into account the things that you care about, remember them, incorporate them into all the future workouts that you get.

But on the other hand, the slightest mistake or misunderstanding about what day it is, when the doubleheader is, how did it actually go.

It seems to get a little bit in the way.

So I was thinking, rather than do this, why don't we build our own agent and our own app?

All right, let's get to it.

Let's get to it.

This is the way that I would approach this problem.

I use Google Antigravity.

I use AI Studio.

I use these different tools.

But I love the web app.

I really do.

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I really do.

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It's just an easy way to start, and I'll tell you why.

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You know what's really cool about AI Studio and Google Antigravity?

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They can do things, right?

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These agents have tools that allow them to write code.

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Pretty nifty.

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But everything that the agent does can take its attention in a slightly different direction, right?

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Because these agents, they're goal -oriented, right?

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So if you're telling the agent, hey, I want to build an app, it's like an excited puppy who wants to go build the app.

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So we got to slow down.

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I'm a huge fan of leveraging AI as like an extension of my brain, a thinking partner.

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So let's get started doing that.

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Here is the prompt I concocted.

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This is not some perfect prompt that creates the best plan or something like that.

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I just paused the camera and I typed this all in real time.

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All right, let's take a look at the response here.

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Your core thesis is completely spot on.

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Standard chat interfaces are fantastic for creative generation, broad reasoning, and fluid conversation, but they are fundamentally flawed for task execution,

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reliable state management, and real -time tracking.

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So if I were to break down this entire response, there are a few problems and a few things we want to solve for.

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So number one, we need a separation of concerns, right?

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We need one part of our application, which is the creative kind of brain of our personal trainer.

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And then we have the other part of our application, which is kind of like your more traditional fitness tracking type apps.

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Not really a surprise from my perspective, but I think this illuminates how to fit AI into an application.

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And the key is knowing where to put it and how to use it.

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I think this will be a lot better if I can kind of see and visualize it.

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There's a tool called Stitch, which is really fun for creating these types of UIs.

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It came up with two different types of views that we can use.

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So we're going to start with those and then work out from there.

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It seems like there are two main views in our application.

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I'm going to use Google stitch to generate the interfaces can you provide a prompt

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i can share with the agent and stitch

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so this is google stitch a very cool product

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and the whole premise of this is

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that it's going to help us with the design side

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and even though i love front end it's something

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i've always worked on designs never really been my forte i like to think it is

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but i've been told it's not so

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So let's use the help of AI.

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Go back to our prompt.

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I'm not even going to read this.

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I'm going to copy and paste it in, and I just want to see what happens.

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Look at this.

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This is awesome.

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It's actually drawing these in real time.

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Okay, so on the left, it's generating our screen that's in the kind of chat interface

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and on the right it's got the tracker here

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when you're working with AI one of the it's

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so easy to just say let's grab these screenshots we'll just throw them in AI studio

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and make our app but when you do

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that you end up letting the agent make a lot of the decisions for you

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which is why it's

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so important to do this upfront this to me isn't very useful at all this card it says today's workout

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and then it says five exercises and then I can launch it.

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In this interface, I wanna be able to make changes to my workout, see what the changes were,

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see what the results are without having to flip back and forth in my application.

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So let's go ahead and ask for that.

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All right, we've got our updated card here.

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Now one of the things I'm wondering is what if somebody wants to like,

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they wanna, to, they don't necessarily want to do the exercises in this order.

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So one of the things that I love to do is switch off.

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Like I'll do, you know, I'll group two exercises together and I'll alternate between those or something like that.

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Let's see if we can give some feedback to get some alternate views for this.

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Part of the benefit of doing this work here is that I am iterating on the design Then...

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And it's a lot more cost efficient to iterate on the design

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this way than to actually iterate it on it in AI Studio.

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Because AI Studio has to build the entire application, run the application, make sure it works.

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And that costs a lot of tokens to do that.

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We don't need to write code for this part.

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We're just kind of figuring out where things should go, what it should look like, and so forth.

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Oh, this is now we're getting somewhere.

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This is looking pretty, pretty cool.

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Okay, supersets.

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Yes, that was the word I was looking for.

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So we've got primary strength, and then it's got a superset where we do these together, accessory.

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All right, so here's the feedback that I'm providing to Stitch.

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I'm not sure what the start button at the top is, this one.

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And I don't know why it says 12 ,500 pounds.

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So unless there's some benefit I don't realize, remove this subcard, hopefully it recognizes this as a subcard, containing 12 ,500 pounds in 50 minutes.

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Instead, bring the 50 minutes to the header section.

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In addition, remove the start button as it's unclear what it's for.

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Finally, let's add a little non -intrusive button next to each workout, or rather each exercise, to learn more.

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For example, something I'd click if I didn't know what an Arnold Press is.

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All right, cool.

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So it took care of that very easily.

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Move the info button to the right of the row and ensure a bit of padding to its left.

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That's more like it.

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Let's add a new view that portrays what happens when you click this info button.

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Oh, this is awesome.

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I love this.

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So now we have a few things here.

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We have our workout preview, which we can adjust just with basic chatting, things like that.

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And we've got also we've got the info button that that is how to perform it.

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This is this is pretty much everything I need from the usability standpoint.

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Now the last thing that we need to address, I wanna work on this.

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We've made a number of changes to the workout preview, for example, incorporating workout structure.

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Can you update this view to incorporate those changes?

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It would also be nice to have access to the info button in this view,

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in case I forget what the workout is while on mid exercise.

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That is something that's actually happened to me.

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So let's see if we can address this.

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With that, we've got three pretty good views that kind of define the core of the app,

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the usage part.

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What I've done is I've grabbed three pictures from Stitch.

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I pasted them back in my Gemini chat session, and I wrote, here are some of the views that I generated with your prompt plus iteration.

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With that, I think it's time to move on to AI Studio.

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Can you provide me with a prompt I can give to AI Studio to generate my app?

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I've gone ahead and just taken that prompt, and let's hit build.

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Build it!

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So while this designs, it's actually given me a few awesome previews here.

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Oh, this is cool.

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All right, so I'm going to hit select this design.

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With that, Gemini 3 .7 Flash ran for 128 seconds, and it generated a working app.

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This looks pretty close to what we did.

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Let's go ahead and make some changes, and I want to show you some cool tools that we can use.

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So first off, we've got this edit tool, which is very awesome.

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So I'm just going to say remove this.

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Workout time should be listed underneath the workout title.

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Perfect.

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Move the hypertrophy badge, which is what we call this thing, spaced evenly vertically between the 50 min duration and the chest, shoulders, triceps.

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This way, today's workout preview is only one line.

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And while that works, we can actually just look at the app and see what else we might want to change.

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So for example, what happens when we click this? oh, this is so cool.

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I love this.

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Back to workout.

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So that worked out really well.

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And that was one of those iterations that we got from Stitch Directly.

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So that is super cool how that just worked.

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This looks pretty fantastic, but there's one more view that I think we're missing.

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When I was doing this, one of the things I like to do was kind of plan out my entire week at a time.

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So we've got the workout preview card, but I want to see if we can add a weekly preview card.

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So let's go ahead and do that.

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As I'm looking through these changes and I'm looking at the app, one of the things I'm seeing is that this user experience could be better.

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The challenge that I'm seeing now that we've added this kind of weekly preview tab here.

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I don't really see these items fitting nicely inside of our chat.

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So I want to try something here.

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I want to try to see

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if we can just pull out all of the workout and the weekly preview to this workouts tab.

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And then we can just kind of get rid of this all together.

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Because I don't really need a library of workouts.

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That's kind of the whole reason why I have an AI personal trainer.

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Like I don't need to go through this library and pick.

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The trainer is going to do that for me.

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So instead, we'll keep this view in order to keep track of all the workouts that we're going to do,

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upcoming workouts, and that way we can organize and launch them.

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I'd love a history of workouts elsewhere, but we're basically going to replace this section.

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All right, this part feels like a lot of typing, so I'm going to speak this into existence.

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So as I'm looking at the app, I'm noticing that I don't love this user experience of having the workout preview inside the app.

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So instead, what I'd like to do is I'd like to replace the workouts tab.

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And the workouts tab, instead of having kind of a library of workouts that I can go to,

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I'd like it to list the current weeks list the current

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weeks set of workouts and then

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if I click any one of those workouts it'll open a workout preview just like this

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and then I can hit back

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and it'll go to the full week let's go ahead

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and see what this generates on its own

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and then we'll take it from there let's go to the full week view

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I want to see what this looks like we have this chest shoulders

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if i go preview comes in here launch active workout

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so now we're cooking and we have this coach page the whole reason

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that we have this chat is

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because i want to be able to update anything here

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but with natural language that includes the full week that also includes the individual day's workouts.

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So I have a better solution for this.

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So we're going to remove this card here, okay?

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And this is going to be a pure chat.

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Got these ask coach recommendations.

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I'm fine with that.

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It doesn't bother me.

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What is more important, however,

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I'd like to have a modify button that is in a fixed position at the bottom of this page and this page.

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And when I click that modify button,

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what it does is it takes me back to the coach tab and it attaches context from that workout to my prompt.

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And that way, if I say I come in here and I don't like this Arnold press, I want to replace it,

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all I would do is I'd hit modify and it would take me back here and I'd say,

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can you replace the Arnold press with a standard bench press or something like that?

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And the beauty of that is that by attaching that context to my prompt in the form of that modify button,

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then the agent would go ahead and update the workout for me.

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And in doing so, it knows exactly which workout to update

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and it can kind of like attach whatever it is I'm doing.

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So let's go ahead and try to prompt that into existence with my speak to text button.

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All right, that was a great change.

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Now we're making progress.

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What I would like to do is on the workouts tab,

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I'd like to add a fixed position modify button to the bottom of the page,

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just above the bottom menu there.

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The purpose of this is to be able to easily attach the current context of the page

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that way I can I can give the agent my coach

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whatever it context it needs in order to make updates

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that I request when I send my chat the agent will know

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that this is the exact workout I'm talking about

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and then it'll go ahead and fix it I don't want to make any updates to the coach page just yet.

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And when somebody clicks modify, what I'd like to do is,

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well, first of all, I'd like to navigate to the coach page and then bring some sort of visual cue, maybe a chip with an X.

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And that chip indicates which workout or which week I'm looking at.

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And it's done.

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Let's try it out.

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So if we go over to our workouts tab.

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Oh, cool.

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Now we've got this modify button here.

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This is perfect.

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So I click modify.

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Oh, yes, it's got this here.

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This is amazing.

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Awesome.

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So now whenever I were to, oh, it even updates this helper text.

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I love that.

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I love that so much.

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Okay, awesome.

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So now, this is very cool.

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So now whenever I type something, oh, it even gives me some, this is fantastic.

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All right, cool.

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So now when I type this in, it will make changes about the week.

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All right.

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All right.

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So this is looking great.

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Now, one of the things I want to change is the bottom navigation menu.

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So currently we have coach workouts, progress settings.

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let's change the label of workouts to week this is going to be our schedule

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or if you think there's a better label for

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that you could use that um and then i want a fifth item

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which is kind of like a circle that's the main the main nav item

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if you will and when you click that it brings up the active workout for the day.

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It brings up the current day's workout.

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Finally, we should remove the launch active workout button from the workout preview page.

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All right, beautiful.

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That worked out very well.

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So you can see here we've got our today button.

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However, there's one thing I forgot to do, which is hit record before my last prompt.

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Basically, I asked for just the current set here, and then we've just got all the other exercises.

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So that is, I think, a much nicer flow because basically all I care about is what I'm doing now.

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And as you can see, this first one just goes through one, two, three.

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But when I get to the fourth one, you'll notice it switches from the incline dumbbell press

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because I do all three of those in a row and then it goes to the Arnold press.

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Now what I'm curious about is, oh awesome!

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So because this is a superset, it actually switches, which is perfect.

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Oh this is rad!

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Okay this is pretty much exactly how I wanted this to work.

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And then down here we've got the other exercises in session

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so I think for the other exercises in this section so

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if we go back to this view I really like this setup

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so what I would love to see is everything from here

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primary strength down to the bottom of this card in the

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today place over here all right beautiful looks like it finished let's out how it did

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so we get over here moment of truth okay this is very cool oh oh

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and it did this feature even though i didn't ask for it

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which is actually what i wanted which is

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when you click this it brings you uh

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that one with the info info giving you the actual info this is

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so awesome this is exactly how I wanted it to be.

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All right.

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Terrific.

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All right.

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And with that, this is where we're going to call it.

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We learned a lot, right?

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We went from design to prompt to stitch to AI studio to editing an AI studio.

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But what I really want to do is take this app to the next level.

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And the first part of that is really fleshing out the product, understanding it, and not just the features,

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but we need to have a full understanding of both how it works and how it's supposed to work.

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And I think we've now hit that critical milestone where we can take this to the next level.

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I hope you stick around and join me for the next video when we do exactly that.

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I'm Devin.

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I hope you've enjoyed building with me.

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See you the next time on Build It!

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Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “The No-Code Roadmap: How I Approach Prototyping”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: workout, button, app, cool. This video has 364 sentences and 3893 words to shadow. The speech runs for 24:35. The speaker talks at a natural 158 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
workout noun	/ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/	An exercise session; a period of physical exercise.
preview noun	/ˈpɹiːvjuː/	An experience of something in advance.
prompt verb	/pɹɑmpt/	To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.
modify verb	/ˈmɑ.dɪˌfaɪ/	To change part of.
stitch noun	/stɪt͡ʃ/	A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
generate verb	/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/	To bring into being; give rise to.
incorporate verb	/ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/	To include (something) as a part.
interface noun	/ˈɪn(t)ɚˌfeɪs/	The point of interconnection or contact between entities.
trainer noun	/ˈtɹeɪnɚ/	A person who trains another; a coach.
attach verb	/əˈtæt͡ʃ/	To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
fitness noun	/ˈfɪt.nəs/	The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.
header noun	/ˈhɛdɚ/	The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
label noun	/ˈleɪ.bəl/	A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
spin verb	/spɪn/	To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
feedback noun	/ˈfiːdˌbæk/	Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
go ahead verb	/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/	To proceed with; to begin.
figure out verb		To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
bring up verb		To mention.
go back to verb		To stem from; to originate in.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
hold up verb		To wait or delay.
work out verb	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	To calculate.
break down verb		To stop functioning.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

We're here to do some incredible stuff.
I don't know the tools.
I don't know where to start.
Can you incorporate that into my workout?
Can you update this view to incorporate those changes?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	i've always worked · i've been told · We've made
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	application, which is · Stitch, which is · tool, which is
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	can be done · are fundamentally flawed · i've been told

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 124 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we've, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, thesis /ˈθisɪs/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: extension /ɪkˈstɛnʃən/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, execution /ˌɛk.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən/, flesh /flɛʃ/
Long words — get the stress right: incorporate /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, execution /ˌɛk.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən/, separation /ˌsɛp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like workout, preview, prompt.

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