I’ve noticed a pattern with most AI coding tools I evaluate: they wow you on the first prompt—slick demo, “look what I can do”—and then they start behaving like slot machines. Things that were working perfectly suddenly “break,” and somehow the tool can’t fix what it just ruined… while your credits quietly bleed out in the process. I’ve seen it happen over trivial stuff too, like a simple “Clear” button or importing a file. Basic. Yet it turns into a credit-burning spiral.
That’s why I was genuinely shocked by Dreamflow with Flutter. I ran the exact same prompt I’ve used on other AI coders, and the output came back polished—better than anything else I’d seen, in multiple ways. And it wasn’t some toy layout either: five real tabs, handling business customers, accounts, a planner, CRM phone scheduling/calls, and linking everything to past-due accounts. It looked like the real deal.
I was literally about to pay—fingers crossed it wouldn’t collapse while I’m blogging about it.
And here’s the funny part: it actually failed on my first prompt. It only produced one page of my plan and I thought, “Yep. Here we go again.” I almost walked away. Instead, I pushed back and told it to re-read my prompt and explain why it gave me this instead of that. And suddenly… jackpot. It returned with an incredible result, even admitting it was missing information.
That’s exactly what makes this feel… suspicious.
Because the moment I paid, it started tearing apart the very app it had created. Within minutes, credits were getting burned just trying to “fix” what it broke—over and over. I ran into internal errors nonstop. One error completely corrupted the “revert” feature. After that, it was basically chaos: fix one thing, something else breaks, credits drain, and the system acts like it’s chasing its own tail. Most of the waste wasn’t even building features—it was “implementation” whack-a-mole.
So now I’m stuck in this love/hate relationship with the company—because the capability is clearly there… but the experience after payment feels like a trap. And what makes it worse is the lack of real support for paying customers, especially when the tool itself can brick your project and eat your credits while you watch.
At this point, it’s hard not to wonder: is this just incompetence… or is the “first prompt magic” the hook?