Apr 6–12, 2026
This week I had a family event, so I left home for a few days and spent some time in another city. I didn’t get much work done — mostly personal things. Tried a recipe I’d been wanting to cook, went to an exhibition, ate some good food. Short, but a nice little break.
On the contract side, the main features are done, so this week was mostly about performance improvements and code cleanup. There was still some dead code left over from features that didn’t make it into the previous version, so I did a thorough sweep of that. I also worked on reducing overhead from repetitive tasks within the app, and fixed some things I’d kept missing — like missing parameters — that I’d been meaning to get to.
I also started sketching out a simple personal app that came to mind. Didn’t get to the implementation stage, just finished the design work. But it surprised me how quickly I was able to put something together. The world has really changed.
There’s been a lot of talk lately about AI token usage. Some people flex about how many tokens they burn through; others say the output isn’t quite worth the tokens spent. A lot of different takes have surfaced in a very short time. I initially thought heavy token usage might become a kind of benchmark, but hearing otherwise has shifted my thinking. I fully agree that it’s convenient — but I also feel like my own place in all of this is quietly fading.
What else is going to happen? AI is developing so fast, and I’m starting to feel, little by little, that I can’t keep pace.