before ai it was cognitively expensive to be a programmer cuz you had to really use brain cycles for everything, from architecting, to even using the right variable names etc. it was genuinely draining.

& if you programmed for a whole day, you were fucking tired. even code reviews required you to think deeply & you had to be aware of the entire code base to some extent too. so not only did you have to have context loaded, you had to do manual inference if you will.

ai completely eliminated all of this strain.
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Replying to @signulll
I would say cognitively, it's the compete opposite for me to what you're saying
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Agentic UI testing is quickly becoming the new standard for writing mobile UI tests quickly.

Easy to write, easy to maintain, targets the accessibility tree 🌳💯
AGENTIC UI TESTING, narrated: @claudeai tests the Wallet app by @budgetbakers, dismisses 3 onboarding popups, corrects a wrong tap, and verifies all 44 steps.
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Replying to @JorgeCastilloPr
True. That’s what I mean, the inference phase is executed on every test run.

So the cost depends on the size of your suite and how often you run it.

Useful, but not to be used carelessly
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Maestro is also very slow to run, so costly in the CI as well?
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My #shipaton app has to be shipped today, here’s my checklist

- Paywall ✅
- Share sheet extension ✅
- Push notifications ✅
- Beautiful Widgets ✅
- Onboarding - Halfway there
- AppStore screenshots - Done but not happy, might redo them 😐

Ship ship ship? Or maintain high standards to deliver the best AppStore screens
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Replying to @sforsethi
Why does it have to be shipped today?
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Everyone tells indie devs to run Apple search ads in the US

That's exactly why $50/day vanishes in a few hours and you get a handful of installs

Pulled a client account today:
US-tier markets → €2.28–€3.18 per install
non-US markets → €0.82 down to €0.14

Same app. Same he cost.
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Replying to @kedytcom
Do those non-us users end up converting a similar amount? Or lower but still worth it?
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Magnus vS retweeted
SyncGP by @prodcoder just joined TrustMRR

💵 Total revenue: $1.6k
📈 Growth (30d): -7%

trustmrr.com/startup/syncgp
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Hard disagree. Spotify is one of the highest quality consumer apps.

- Info dense home screen that successfully anticipates what you want (grid of eight usually hits).
- Integrates music + podcasts + audiobooks in a way that's intuitive and not confusing (harder than it looks).
- Super fast search that always nails your intent (Spotify search underrated)
- Rock solid performance, low connectivity/offline works well, speaker/device management way more advanced than other audio apps
- Good recommendations across multiple surfaces (discover weekly, personalized mixes, home feed clips).
- Innovative icon design

Ok joking on the last one but overall Spotify "just works" in the ways that matter.
Amongst my friends, Spotify is the lowest quality consumer app we still pay for. It certainly hasnt gotten noticeably better in the last couple years (arguably worse). So, this is not the positive look Ant and Spotify are spinning here.

Bigger picture, this is the problem with a lot of AI reporting. It reports completely meaningless metrics like deploys per day or LoC. Why don’t we start reporting consumer satisfaction reports? Actually end state research results.

All the no nuance AI people always come out and think that this is anti AI. Again, I think AI is great and Claude is great. But this is bad marketing and makes both look like clowns.
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Replying to @benspringwater
Android app is buggy, I quite often see the wrong state of the player. It's shown as playing and counting down, but nothing is actually playing. Have to restart it to work. Should be the most core feature of the app?
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Quite interesting, I set up a 20€ daily budget, 0.45€ bid, and added 10 keywords with exact matches (some of them with high popularity, some of them with low popularity).

Some keywords are in English, some in Indonesian.

And I have exactly 0 impressions.

I have no idea why.
Just launched an Apple Search Ads campaign in Indonesia for one of my apps, first time in this country.

We’ll see how it goes!
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Replying to @nomalex_
Took a while for me as well to get impressions/clicks. Increased countries from 1 to 10 and target cpa to 3€. After a while it slowly started to increase
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production code btw 🫠 #androiddev
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Replying to @ProdCoder
Valid question, ADDED in 2023 🤣
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Replying to @Zhuinden
I thought our code had some legacy stuff, I shouldn't complain 😂
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i didnt even notice but they axed a lot of the icons on mac wow
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Yes I laughed when I saw it in the keynote that they went back 😄
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im running out of space on my macbook and its becoming annoying

i've cleaned up files every other week for last 2 months only to end up back here...

so i'm asking anyone on here: what is best setup for someone with a docked macbook? external ssd? if so which one? or...
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Replying to @jackfriks
Both my macbooks are the same, I think I'll just factory reset at this point
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Getting Liquid Glass in Compose Multiplatform 🎉
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But this is only navigation ui? Not for a button or some other component?
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My life has changed forever
Guys, I just found a product that stops your MacBook screen from getting keyboard prints when you close it
Community note
Apple warns that leaving any material, including keyboard covers, between the keyboard and display when closing a MacBook may damage the display. support.apple.com/en-us/102051
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Replying to @quinnslcm
Seems like a pain. Apple should just fix the distance
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Marketing day on the train.
Bought @TryAstroApp to learn more about ASO and so far the mcp tool is amazing
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Connecting an ASO tool directly to local LLMs via MCP is the ultimate marketing cheat code. It turns keyword research into a simple conversation.
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Starting to see that!
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What's stopping you from coding like this?
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Replying to @TimoBuilds_
doing a deep squat for 60 seconds every morning will fix your hips from sitting all day long
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Replying to @TimoBuilds_
60s doesn't seem enough?
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ran out of AI so i guess it's marketing-only day for me today...?
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Replying to @ThePeterMick
What about when trying to use AI for the marketing as well 😬
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Bootstrapping is hard.
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Replying to @SachinNeravath
Yes but do people tend to click those ads? My eyes immediately go towards the first real result
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wtf is this announcement style, they announced a whole new os and laptop, said a couple of words about them in an unprofessional setup for such a huge step, then the first thing they talk about is gemini
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Replying to @mahersafadii
Wasted 1h of my life 🤦‍♂️
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