Ivan Stepanok: I make apps, websites and the AI pipelines that build them.
I’m Ivan, an iOS developer since 2020. These days most of my work runs through a factory of AI agents that plan, write and review code. Here are the things I’ve shipped, and notes on how they were made.
- AppsNative iOS and macOS apps. Nine of my own are on the App Store, next to client apps at Raccoon Gang.
- WebsitesProduct sites built to be found and read, like simcleaner.com, bulava.app and this one.
- The factoryAn AI factory that runs the work of a company: agents do and check it, people set the direction.
Selected projects
All 11 projects
Bulava
Claude Code writes, Codex reviews, nobody presses continue.
Narada
AI meeting notes on your Mac. No bot joins the call, no audio leaves the machine.
SimCleaner
See every Xcode simulator and what it costs you in disk space. Clean up in one click.
Slopovyna
A shared room where two people's coding agents agree on a feature.
Map Alerts
Posts from public Telegram channels, placed on a live map by an LLM.memex
One searchable memory of every Claude Code and Codex session I have run.
Articles
All articlesClaude Code vs Codex: why I stopped choosing and use both
Claude Code and Codex compared on hooks, sandboxing, headless runs, review and billing, and why the best setup uses one to write and the other to review.Claude Code hooks examples: turning an assistant into a pipeline
Practical Claude Code hooks examples: block risky commands, gate Stop on tests, call a second model to review, and the hook mistakes that break a pipeline.Will AI replace software engineers? The work that moves, and what grows
What 2026 labour data says about AI and software jobs: BLS projections, Indeed postings, Stanford's early-career findings, and which engineering work grows."Would you like me to continue?" Why coding agents stop halfway
Coding agents finish a third of the task and ask permission to go on. Why that happens, and how stop hooks, checkable criteria and a reviewer end it.
How the factory works
People set the direction and see every process from one control tower. Agents do the work in sales, marketing, engineering, support, finance and operations, an independent check decides when it is done, and the factory improves its own procedures.
- Direction
- Control tower
- Shared context
- Orchestration
- Execution
- Verification
- Learning