I Threw Away My App and Lost Almost Nothing
Source title: I Threw Away My App and Lost Almost Nothing. Source description: I threw away the whole app and rebuilt it from scratch, and the only reason I didn't lose much is that I wrote the spec down first. I had the Mac app working and connected to the cloud, and then I realized I don't want to charge people a subscription for something the new local models can just run on their own device, so I had Cursor read everything and generate a spec file, and that spec is the recipe I'm using to ma
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Source title: I Threw Away My App and Lost Almost Nothing. Source description: I threw away the whole app and rebuilt it from scratch, and the only reason I didn't lose much is that I wrote the spec down first. I had the Mac app working and connected to the cloud, and then I realized I don't want to charge people a subscription for something the new local models can just run on their own device, so I had Cursor read everything and generate a spec file, and that spec is the recipe I'm using to ma
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The title and description alone do not establish the agent autonomy level.
Agents In Use pipeline: video selected by TypeSafe Jev using source title/description only; recording and outcomes not independently verified.
Credit: Ray Fernando
Source published 1 Sept 2026
Source checked 14 Oct 2026
Tools and topics
Claude · Codex · Cursor
video · agent-demo
Editorial completeness: 75/100. Measures documented fields, not agent performance or verified outcomes.
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- Source title: I Threw Away My App and Lost Almost Nothing