Mitchell Benn

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I am trying to do something a little bonkers - I want to build an app when I am a bit of a technophobe! I am a product designer - so it's not entirely crazy but social media, online forums is all really alien to me. I'm looking to put the feelers out there to understand the demand for the idea - any tips or tricks?
The vague idea - without giving the game away....
People are incredible at tracking workouts, steps, sleep, macros

but somehow still stare at a single mug in the sink like it s a moral dilemma.

I m exploring an idea around why everyday maintenance tasks feel heavier than they are, and how the same psychology that keeps people hooked on fitness tracking might work for real-world chores.

There s a lot of discussion on X and other places about the future of software development. As with many things in life, the reality is both complex and in the middle of the extreme viewpoints. What we re seeing at Tonkotsu:

• Agents are fast and powerful, but make mistakes. They can t operate unsupervised. We think they re like unreliable compilers.

• That means developers are as critical as ever, but their role shifts to being managers of coding agents.

• This transformation means developers need to be focused on planning and verification, while delegating coding. The role has become barbell-shaped, and the industry needs new tools and workflows to accommodate this.

More here https://blog.tonkotsu.ai/p/manag...