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Day 2: I Didn't Write Any Code Today (And That's the Point)
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Day 2: I Didn't Write Any Code Today (And That's the Point)

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Let me be completely honest: I didn't write a single line of code for OpenOlex. Not today, not yesterday. The AI (Kiro) wrote 100% of it. So what did I actually do? And why am I even sharing this? What I Actually Did 1. Clarified What OpenOlex Is The project kept drifting. "AI controls everything" → "Cross-device orchestration" → back to the original idea. I spent time defining: OpenOlex is the MCP protocol's physical world interface. Not a robot. Not an app. Just infrastructure—a bridge between MCP and IoT devices. This clarity matters because it determines what gets built. 2. Decided: Tests Over Features Day 1 had 45% test coverage. I could have told the AI to build more features. Instead, I said: "Write comprehensive tests for MQTT Broker and Gateway." Result: 56% coverage, found a data loss bug, cleaned up 51 ESLint warnings. The AI wrote all the tests. I made the decision that tests were more important than features today. 3. Reviewed What Got Built I read through the test code. I

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