Apr 13–19, 2026
I had a hospital visit this week. The doctor said the bone is basically 99.9% healed. I can do most exercises now, though I still need to keep up with stretching. Strength and muscle performance are slowly coming back, but my left arm is still only at about 40% of my right. Pull-ups still feel scary — but I’ll get there bit by bit.
I kept going with the dead code cleanup this week and fixed some bugs along the way. There are still a few expensive operations left to deal with, so I did some minimal refactoring too. I also set up the dev environment — lint config, PR checks, CI. It finally feels like the codebase is clean.
Critical voices about AI are starting to emerge. Daily token usage doesn’t always correlate with developer skill or quality of output. I’ve also seen people replace something that could’ve been done with a single button click with an AI prompt instead. It got me thinking — I need to actually use AI as a tool, and use the time it saves to strengthen my fundamentals. That means slowing down a little, being more deliberate. But there’s a fear that comes with that: what if I fall behind while the world keeps sprinting ahead?
On the flip side, AI lets you build things at a speed that wasn’t possible before. I recently built a small app I needed — in a day, maybe just a few hours. It’s kind of wild how quickly you can make something now.
But in a world full of apps being built that fast — how do you stand out? What kind of value do you create?