ISuperCoder

Last weekend, my brother came home with a mission. He is a sailor, an officer on a massive oil tanker, and his job takes him on long voyages where expensive satellite internet makes Spotify a distant luxury. He relies on his trusty 120GB iPod Classic for his music library.

However, since his old Apple account was no longer accessible, many of his original purchases were silences in his library. We found his music on my old backup drives, but during the hasty transfer into his "Automatically Add to Music" folder, we created a digital mess. Hundreds of duplicates appeared overnight.

It is a common frustration that neither the old iTunes nor its newer version, Apple Music, offers an intuitive way to deal with hundreds of duplicate tracks. In the past, cleaning this up meant hours of manual work, song by song. It is a tedious, soul-crushing task that most people simply avoid.

Instead of wasting time on manual labor, we decided to solve it with code. What started as a simple CLI script a few days ago has now evolved into a fully functional, commercial grade macOS application: Duplicate Music Finder.

Built with SwiftUI, the tool identifies duplicates by looking at metadata, bitrates, and duration, ensuring that only the best version is kept and the rest are safely managed without messing up the library database.

My brother is heading back to sea now, his iPod restored and organized.

At our company, we love solving real world problems with digital solutions. If you have a task that feels repetitive or a tool you need built from scratch, whether it is a small script or a premium desktop app, we are open for new projects. Let us build something that makes your life easier.

Check out the project here: [https://github.com/fahdi/duplicate-music-finder]

Welcome to the Starfleet.

Courtesy: Nano Banana

I started work at 4:41 AM to clean up an endpoint. I thought it would take ten minutes and I'd be done before sunrise.

Cursor: "Say no more, boss! I'll make 100 changes for one API fix, no matter how many Cursor rules you create. My GPT-5 model can think of a million things to do while it's at it! Why fix one thing when we can refactor your entire existence?"

Result: The same API endpoint is now MORE broken, it has rewritten the entire component into what I can only describe as abstract art, and my Docker builds are lightning fast at failing. If I had done it myself with a tech stack from this century that I actually understand, it would have taken 20 minutes. But I decided to be a hipster and use the shiniest new framework, and now I'm stuck in this kafkaesque nightmare where my code looks like it was written by a caffeinated intern having an existential crisis.

No, AI is not saving anyone's day, it just solves problems at warp speed while birthing ten new demons in the process. I feel like Captain Picard confidently saying "engage" to Cursor, expecting it to solve everything, but instead of reaching our destination, we end up in some bizarre alternate dimension where nothing works and the laws of programming don't apply. Every command leads to a new predicament that would make the Enterprise crew look like they're having a relaxing vacation.

It's like having a really enthusiastic intern who's read every programming blog but has never actually written code. It's not collective intelligence; it's collective stupidity with a PhD and a superiority complex.

The difference is the same as someone spending their whole life mastering French cuisine versus someone who watched a 3-minute TikTok about croissants and now thinks they're Gordon Ramsay. Speaking of Gordon Ramsay, I want to start a show where I go into hipster companies with broken AI tooling and yell "THIS CODE IS RAW!" while fixing their productivity disasters. It'll be like Kitchen Nightmares but for developers who thought ChatGPT could replace actual engineering skills.

Or it's like someone spending their whole life writing a book versus someone with 20 minutes of reading on the subject yapping about it on YouTube. Insert your favourite guru here :D

Currently questioning all my life choices while my coffee gets cold and the sun mocks me through my window.

Rant over! Time to manually fix what the robot butler broke. It's 6 AM already.