Building Bloom: How AI-Assisted Development Changed My Workflow

A 3-week journey building a production flower care app with Claude Code, Test-Driven Development, and GitHub Actions Introduction When my teammate and I set out to build Bloom —a cut flower care tracking app—we knew we wanted to do more than just write code. We wanted to master modern AI-assisted development workflows. Over three weeks, we built a production-grade Next.js application with 15 MVP features, 255+ tests, and a 7-stage CI/CD pipeline. Here's what we learned. Live App: https://bloom-f