“Walk your dog without losing your flow” No. Walk your fucking dog. Be present. Pet the damn dog. Look at the sky. If you can’t unplug for 20 minutes without remote-controlling an AI from your phone, the problem isn’t your tooling. It’s you.

“While I’m here” is the most dangerous phrase in engineering, but agents love it. Stop it via AGENTS.md. ## When to Refactor - Before adding a feature (make the change easy, then make the easy change) - After tests pass (not during implementation) - When you

Agents know every API ever shipped and writes it faster than you can autocomplete. Your edge as a developer is now taste, and knowing what NOT to build.

The biggest lie in iOS development is that you need Xcode open to build an iOS app. You don’t. Xcode is a 12GB GUI wrapper around terminal commands. Apple just proved it by exposing everything through MCP. The entire IDE is optional. Always was.

Companies still asking candidates to do coding tests is silly. Forbidding them from using AI is blatantly stupid. You’re hiring someone to solve problems, not to prove they can type code from memory like it’s 2015. Grow up!

Lots of people asked about what my AGENTS.md looks like, so here it is. Feel free to grab it and tune it to your liking. I'll keep this up to date as it evolves. github.com/afterxleep/age…

Most indie devs want to build a viral app, and get acquired. Same as every VC-funded team, every bored engineer, and every 'I have this idea' person. Build for the niche instead. Not because you can't compete. Because the niche is a game you can actually win.

If you're waiting for Codex to finish what you asked, you're doing it wrong.

Most developer tools bury you in configuration and call it flexibility. We need more tools to decide that for us. `flowdeck build` just builds. No flags, no options. You setup once and can override if you need to. You rarely do.

The iOS build toolchain is 15 years of duct tape. xcodebuild flags nobody understands. Build commands that need a tutorial just to run. Unparseable output, slow AF. Everyone accepted this as the cost of doing business. I didn't. That's FlowDeck.