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Driving vs. delegating: I timed two ways of pairing with AI

Dev.to · Simple Memo 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Driving vs. delegating: I timed two ways of pairing with AI

There are two ways I pair with an AI coding assistant, and for most of a year I could only have told...

A 15-second interruption cost me 40 minutes of re-entry

Dev.to · Simple Memo 📋 Product Management ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

A 15-second interruption cost me 40 minutes of re-entry

The auth bug was ten minutes from fixed. I had the whole failure loaded in my head: the token refresh...

What I measured cutting my iOS cold start to 280 ms

Dev.to · Simple Memo 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

What I measured cutting my iOS cold start to 280 ms

Stage (my iPhone, tap → first usable frame) Before After How I measured it Pre-main (dyld) 210...

I deleted every Zettelkasten ID and my notes got better

Dev.to · Simple Memo 📋 Product Management ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

I deleted every Zettelkasten ID and my notes got better

For three years I hand-maintained a Luhmann-style ID on top of every note I kept: roughly 1,400 of...

I stopped counting hours and started counting energy

Dev.to · Simple Memo 🚀 Entrepreneurship & Startups ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

I stopped counting hours and started counting energy

Day 1. I logged 4 hours and 40 minutes of work and shipped nothing I kept. The time tracker said it...

Taking apart the write path into another app's iCloud folder

Dev.to · Simple Memo ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Taking apart the write path into another app's iCloud folder

I am going to take apart, layer by layer, roughly 90 lines of Swift that let my app write a single...

The prompt is the cheap part. The context is the product.

Dev.to · Simple Memo 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

The prompt is the cheap part. The context is the product.

Suppose the model forgot you completely between every message. No memory, no history, no idea who you...

I version every prompt I send to Claude. Here's why.

Dev.to · Simple Memo 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

I version every prompt I send to Claude. Here's why.

Nine months of versioning every prompt I send to Claude in a flat text file. The format, the grep-as-RAG trick, and what I'd change if I started today.

I shipped an iOS app with zero third-party dependencies

Dev.to · Simple Memo 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

I shipped an iOS app with zero third-party dependencies

At 11:47 PM on a Sunday, I deleted the last import Alamofire from my Xcode project. I replaced eight...