Quick note before we dive in — I know I've been off track from the iOS/Swift series lately. I just have so many thoughts I need to get out of my head first. The series is coming back with the next article, I promise. Okay. Now. Story time.
I was thinking to tell you all about the afternoon I spent deleting code and accidentally learned more than I had in the entire month I spent generating it.
This is not the story I expected to be telling. I went in thinking I was doing a quick cleanup. I came out a different person. Slightly humbled, deeply caffeinated, and with 200 fewer lines of Swift in a file that somehow works better now. Let me explain.
The Part Where I Confess Something
A few weeks ago I was moving fast on a project. Like, embarrassingly fast. Generate, test, accept, move on. Generate, test, accept, move on. The AI was producing stuff that compiled and did the thing I asked and I was just... letting it. Not reading carefully. Not asking questions. Just vibing my way through feature after feature like someone who is definitely not going to regret this later.
