In a one-hour exercise you're asked to build an app that calls a public API and shows the results in a list, and you'll be graded on architecture, error handling, and UI performance. As a senior engineer, what would you build, in what order?
Get a working vertical slice running within 20 minutes: a thin API client behind a protocol, Decodable models, an @Observable view model with loading/success/failure state, and the list. Then add error UI, cancellation, and an image cache in that order.
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