AI Fixed Every Bug. I Ended Up With Ten State Flags.
Five bug fixes over eight months left ten pieces of state across three files. No single change was wrong, and nothing was watching what they added up to.
Notes on software, systems, and the decisions behind them.
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When AI Started Writing My Code, I Had to Rethink What I Needed to Own
I'm building an Electron-based Markdown note-taking app. The editor alone is over 40,000 lines; the full codebase has grown past 160,000 lines. I started out writing everything myself.…