AI feels like puppet magic from cultivation novels. Prompt = spell Context window = spiritual power Tokens = spirit stones Hallucination = qi deviation Turns out we didn’t build AGI. We just learned how to control digital puppets.

AI coding didn’t just help me build MacMater faster. It helped me notice the small frictions people live with every day. On macOS, there still isn’t a simple native way to right-click in Finder and instantly open a file or folder with the app you actually want. There also isn’t a clean built-in way to right-click and create a new file from your own templates. So people install one app for Finder tweaks. Another for clipboard history. Another for mouse gestures. Another for input switching. But ordinary people shouldn’t need a folder full of tiny utilities just to make their computer feel right. That became the idea behind MacMater: an all-in-one native Mac utility that brings these daily improvements together. Open with your favorite apps. Create new files from templates. Switch input methods automatically. Make your mouse feel better. Bring back anything you copied. AI wasn’t a magic button. It was more like a patient teammate. It helped me unfold ideas, question tradeoffs, rewrite messy thoughts, and keep asking: “Is this actually useful to a real person?” The biggest lesson: AI coding does not remove human judgment. It demands more of it. You still have to know what matters. You still have to say no. You still have to choose simplicity over cleverness. In the end, the best technology disappears. What remains is a small moment: someone opens their Mac, does their work, and feels like the machine finally understands them a little better.