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A folder tidy up script for my freelance work grew for five months and took over

He runs a freelance video editing studio and a coding studio, and his project folders were a mess across drives. He started a small folder making script with AI and kept adding to it daily for five months. It is now a 100,000 line Rust program with 1,390 tests that holds every project he has, gives each a permanent ID, and jumps him to any project on any drive or machine with one command.

How it works

  1. Start a small script that makes project folders from templates
  2. Keep improving it with AI nearly every day for five months
  3. It becomes a project library: every project gets a metadata file and a permanent ID
  4. Moves between drives are verified file by file
  5. Today he opens any project with one command and codes on it with agents

Why it’s worth knowing

A script meant to tidy folders now has more tests than most products, a quarter of the whole program, and he trusts it with every job he has.

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