How an AI Engineer codes on his phone using encapsulated development
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Summary
An AI Engineer at Notion describes how he maintains consistent productivity on his side project by coding on his phone using an "encapsulated development" approach. Each development session leaves the repository in a known, stable, verified, and stateless condition, enabling incremental progress even with limited, sporadic time blocks. The author averages two commits per day despite having only 30 minutes on his laptop some weeks, by making phone-based development practical through careful process design.
Key quotes
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Some weeks, I'll get half an hour on my laptop to work on this side project. Most weeks, I won't. Yet, I've averaged two commits to the project per day for the last three months.
By building on my phone. But, really, by making it possible to build on my phone.
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