[jv22222]

At this point I haven't looked at code for many months. Before that, I spent 4 years hand coding a Google Docs competitor in JS without any libraries.

My brain feels equally as exercised (in fact more so as I am not as good at agentic coding as I was at real coding)

But now I'm making highly polished Mac OS apps and I really like that move from JS.

I feel... conflicted.

[softwaredoug]

Do you like to look at code? I’m finding it’s really just a personal preference. And honestly not worth getting worked up about either way.

[jv22222]

This is weird but I think I like to focus wherever I feel needs polish.

So, making a real time collaborative tool from scratch there was a lot of deep work in things like sockets, queues, memory structures, etc. That's just what needed attention.

Right now I'm building a memory app for AI.

So far I haven't spent much time looking at code on the swift side of things. But I have spent a lot of time up front working on domain driven design, screaming architecture, and module based design.

I think with AI the polish is in deep QA, design taste, running trace logs and constantly asking it to do html diagrams of the architecture and such.

ngl I miss "knowing what's going on" at the code level, but it feels like not a good use of my time to go into those weeds.

When I look at the code it seems well structured due to screaming architecture, and module based design.