Gave AI 20 minutes to build an Obsidian capture tool, it shipped in 3
vista8 · x · 2026-11-04
@vista8 wanted a macOS global capture tool: custom hotkey to summon, type text or drop images/videos, auto-save into the day's Obsidian journal. He handed the spec as a plain Chinese prompt (telling the model to search for best practices) to an AI coding tool. He budgeted 20 minutes; it finished in about 3, with a demo video attached.
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