Routine screen scaffolding
AI can draft familiar layouts quickly, but may use obsolete APIs or ignore lifecycle behavior.
Your response: Read current platform docs and explain each state transition before keeping generated code.
Career-specific AI guide
AI & Mobile App Development
No replacement score. Separate the career’s tasks to see where to direct AI and where to preserve independent reasoning.
Task Automation Exposure
Task, explanation, student response
Lower never means permanently safe; higher never means the career is useless. Task mix and responsibility change.
Device and network debugging
Suggestions help, but a plausible explanation is not a reproduced crash.
Your response: Capture a minimal reproduction, logs and a regression test without exposing user data.
Release safety and user trust
Permissions, data handling and rollout decisions need accountable human judgment.
Your response: Practice permission minimization, accessible flows and a rollback plan.
Independent capability
What should you still be able to do?
- One programming language, functions, collections, async work and Git.
- HTTP, JSON, basic data modeling and debugging.
- Choose one starting platform: Kotlin/Compose for Android, Swift/SwiftUI for Apple, or Flutter/React Native for shared UI.
- State, navigation, lifecycle and accessible touch targets.
- Local persistence, loading/error/empty states and API contracts.
Verification drill
In an AI-generated solution, identify one bug, one unproven assumption, one missing edge case and one simpler alternative.
Next choices