I Was Gonna Do It
AnikoNotes from a busy mum, AI enthusiast, who is trying to make life more fun and less of a chore.
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The Overeager AI: How Saying "Yes" to Everything Breaks Your App
When I asked my AI building tool to add a simple “demo mode” to my app, it took just a few minutes. What came back was 641 lines of duplicated logic, a right mess, and a refactoring nightmare that took me five agonising phases to untangle....
50 First Chats: Fixing "AI Amnesia" With Context Engineering
“Good morning Aniko! What are we working on today?”
It knows my name.
It doesn’t know that we spent three sessions fixing the mobile layout of my app. It doesn’t know we finally cracked the card overflow issue last Tuesday.
It is perfect...
10 Things I Hate About You, AI (And Why I’m Still Building at Midnight)
I hate the way you hide your buttons, and the way you lie about links. I hate the way you ignore my rules, and how you delete my data like it meant nothing. I hate it when you make me cry, even worse when you make me laugh.
But mostly I ha...
My App Met the Real World (And It Wasn’t Ready)
We were standing in the middle of a bustling Tokyo station, the kids were arguing over which drink to buy from the vending machine, and I just needed to know the Shinkansen booking number.
I pulled out the travel app I’d spent months build...
The App That Almost Didn't Exist (And Turned Into My Favourite)
I was staring at a fridge so covered in highlighter-streaked packing lists and magnets that I couldn’t actually see the door anymore. Three kids, four hotels, and a folder of booking emails I’d definitely lost… my family holiday prep was an...
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Parent, maker, and accidental vibe coder. Writing about turning ideas into apps with AI tools (and testing how far free plans can take us). \ud83d\ude0a
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