Notes

Optimizing some NSOutlineView code this morning. ChatGPT gave me a fantastic 100+ line solution using NSOutlineViewDiffableDataSource, which was great, until I had to break the news to the robot that that API simply Does. Not. Exist.

This isn’t solvable by hiring additional engineers. More people would just make communication between and within teams increasingly burdensome. This is a problem of not saying “no” enough. And at some point, saying “no” more often than “yes” becomes unacceptable to investors. Once you cross that line, insert the Upton Sinclair quote about people not understanding things their salary depends on them not understanding.

That thing where you try and drag a window out of the way only to realize it’s inside someone else’s screen they’re sharing.