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by tomm-wei 79 days ago
Yeap, It's me.I am building a cross-patform tiny NAS app -- egos. Ancient-style programming. AI can do fantastic thing but when you transfer and backup files and photos it can make it. I don't even use AI agents to write code. Because if I spend 15 minutes writing code with an AI agent, I end up spending a week debugging it. I've put a file server into the browser, desktop, and mobile apps. Each platform runs its own file server with identical logic (because the file systems are different and local data varies, they can't share the same codebase). Debugging across all these platforms is extremely tedious. If I don't have a clear understanding of every line of code, once a problem occurs, I have to spend ten times to fixing it. Here's how I test a feature: Browser A → Browser B Browser A → Desktop Windows C1, Mac C2, Linux C3 Browser A → iOS D Browser A → Android E Desktop C1 → Browser A Desktop C1 → Desktop C2 → Desktop C3 Desktop C1 → iOS D Desktop C1 → Android E ...