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He set performance targets, went to bed, and woke to a fast file manager

Gave the AI and the AI performance targets for a port of Dos Navigator, went to bed, and woke up to a fast Swift file manager he now enjoys using, especially for image previews.

How it works

  1. He gives the AI and the AI performance targets for the port
  2. Goes to bed
  3. Wakes to a fast native file manager he now enjoys using, especially for image previews

Why it’s worth knowing

Targets plus sleep is the whole management style here.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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