Experimenting with AI to Generate a Vertical Slice Folder Structure in a Blazor App
Today, I set out to generate a Vertical Slice Architecture (VSA) folder structure inside a default Blazor template using AI tools. I ran this experiment inside Visual Studio 2022 using Copilot in Agent Mode. My goal was to automate the restructuring of a Blazor app into a cleaner, feature-based format aligned with the VSA pattern. Attempt 1 – Claude 3.7 I began by prompting Claude 3.7. Unfortunately, the results were underwhelming. Despite giving a detailed prompt, it added the MediatR NuGet package—something I never asked for—and failed to restructure the file layout at all. It completely ignored the organizational aspects and made assumptions about architecture that weren’t part of the task. Attempt 2 – Gemini 2.5 Next, I gave Gemini 2.5 a try. This attempt ended abruptly with an error—it didn’t return anything meaningful. At this point, I was beginning to wonder if AI was the right approach for this task. Attempt 3 – ChatGPT 4.0 Then I tried ChatGPT 4.0. It didn’t modify anyt...