AI should help us do more of the work we actually want to do. not siphon our attention. not make us fight uphill to stay focused. working hard on something meaningful is a privilege. we shouldn’t be at the mercy of apps that steal it. look at the tools we use every day. when i open spotlight, i don’t see “built for 2025.” that gap matters. it reminded me to ask a harder question: what have i done to push productivity forward for the people around me? that’s why i built sparkle search. i care about this space. i’m a solo engineer @every obsessed with what productivity on the mac can feel like. one shortcut. your whole mac, commanded. no friction, no detours, no attention tax. just flow. i listen to huberman and nick bare because i’m serious about operating better. but philosophy without tools is posturing. so i’m building the tooling. my goal is simple: when you sit down at your mac, you should be as productive as possible. i’m here to make that the default.

built a better Spotlight. it’s called Sparkle Search. you can search across your files and actually find what you need. i showed it to a friend in big tech. he said, “you’re really going to compete with Apple on this?” me: “it’s broken for me, so i’m fixing it for myself.” we’ve been testing it internally and people are loving it. try it.

Yes, I'm another engineer posting about not writing code. Haven't typed a function in weeks. Still shipping features daily. I get why it triggers you. Another "AI changed everything" post. But here's what you're missing while you're busy defending traditional coding: I discovered something that changed how I think about building software. Not just faster—fundamentally different. Like switching from hunting and gathering to farming. The relationship with sustenance transforms entirely. I used to pride myself on elegant algorithms, clean syntax, efficient implementations. Now? I describe outcomes to Claude Code and watch solutions emerge. @SparkleApp's duplicate finder that found 158,000 files on my desktop? Didn't write a single line. Directed the entire architecture in plain English. Sure, you can dismiss this as hype. Keep perfecting your for loops while we're shipping products. Keep debugging syntax errors while we're solving user problems. Keep memorizing documentation while we're building the future. The gap widens every day between those orchestrating AI and those still playing every instrument by hand. The music we're making is richer, more complex, more ambitious than anything we could play solo. You can keep scrolling past these posts, rolling your eyes at the "lazy developers." But while you're protecting your craft, we're redefining it. The future belongs to those who learned to conduct.