Apr 20–26, 2026
This week I found a bug while testing the contract project and worked on fixing it. There were still places with duplicate calls, so the code cleanup continued. This time I did a major dead code removal — the codebase slimmed down by over 780 lines. It’s not so much that the structure was wrong, but rather that a lot of code was left behind when features that had been developed got cut off at launch. I also closed the milestone to signal no more feature work, and spent some time looking at the project as a whole. On the personal project side, I’ve been fixing bugs while preparing the next version — and I’ve already hit the 100th PR. While preparing a minor bug release, I also worked on Product Page Optimization at the same time. App sales are growing very slowly, so I decided to run an experiment to see if better screenshots could help. I happened to find an ASO-related AI skill, tried it out, and then refined it myself to create a new style of app screenshots.
With AI programming, I kept telling myself “just one more prompt” and ended up going to bed late many nights. So I set some rules to get my daily routine back on track — limiting specific tasks to specific time windows. It’s helped a bit. Sure, the pace slowed down, but it’s been good to keep my daily routine from completely falling apart. I also came across some fresh perspectives on AI:
- Saying “AI lets everyone become a developer” is similar to saying “cameras let everyone become a photographer.”
- Like conventionally grown crops versus organic ones, there’s a difference between work made with AI and work made purely by humans. The unfinished beauty that people create. (From a Q&A segment on the Epik High YouTube channel)
I thought about this last week too — AI keeps making it possible to build more things, faster. But among all those things, I think we still need to make ones that are genuinely valuable and special. Like the spirit of a craftsman, it seems like the things made stitch by stitch, with real care, are the ones that truly shine. Sure, it takes a lot more time to make something like that — but couldn’t that be exactly where a real point of difference, something with special value, comes from?