developer tools

I Spent a Year Building My Own System, and It Lost to a WeChat Message

The note system I built myself lost to sending one WeChat message. Whether a system gets used comes down to how many keystrokes one entry takes.

A Tool Promising 99.2% Token Savings, and Why I Didn't Install It

When AI edits code it has to open one file after another, and a large project blows the context window. Someone built a tool for that, with an official example showing 99.2% savings. The number is real. The denominator is not mine.