About the first part, I am working on something similar for myself. If you want an api to get SMS for free, without needing any 10dlc stuff, check out groupme, which supports SMS.
For now, I think it would be funny if you put plaintext that says "just bought the milliondollargpt.com and have no idea what to do with it...". Optionally as a hyperlink to your comment I am replying to.
I do not own an iPhone and I do not use swift. I just want to say congrats on the launch, this looks and sounds really cool. And watching your interactions in this thread, you look like you'll do really well!
putting secrets into environment variables in the first place - that is apparently acceptable to them and sets off a red flag for me
Isn't that standard? The other options I've seen are .env files (amazing dev experience but not as secure), and AWS Secrets Manager and similar competition like Infisical. Even in the latter, you need keys to authenticate with the secrets manager and I believe it's recommended to store those as env vars.
than in any other programming language
After reading the article, I couldn't believe anyone designs their systems like that. His "solutions" seemed to be the obvious way to do things.
Possibly in part because bots will not fall for the same tricks as humans (recommended items, as well as other things which amazon does to try and get the most money possible)
so I did my customary dance of order-refund, order-refund, order-refund. My credit card is going to get locked one of these days.
I don't know the first thing about Shopify, but perhaps you can create a free "test" item so you don't actually need to make a credit card transaction.
Do you have any data to back this up, or are you speculating?
Personally, I do not hesitate to use a library if it has decent documentation or even well structured source code. And I say this as an AI autocomplete user.
Additionally, if code is well structured, usually humans and AI can both learn it with a very small context. For example, many AI models can write decent code if you provide them with a list of functions and classes in the library, along with their argument names and argument types.