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I love how many people are attaching to the "half-bounch" startup time metric. I used to do paid macOS dev ~20 years ago and most macOS devs I knew then used the bounce metric! Back then multiple bounces was the norm due to HDDs. One bounce really wasn't possible until SSDs. We've lost this obsession and its time to bring it back.

How 90% of the UI looks nowadays

When you're working with coding agents the transcript becomes one of the most significant artifacts of the work you are doing, I think recording those is just as important (if not more so) than maintaining good commit messages and issues for tracking your decisions over time

Our devs `cargo clean` at least twice a week. 💾 📈⚡️