macbook gets a dynamic island
stress tested DeepSeek-v4-flash-0731 full-stack coding — built a macOS Dynamic Island app. media controls, file stash, system info, all docked in the notch.
backend is on par with GLM-5.2. frontend? zero chance. no vision modality means it's coding blind.
setup: Pi native coding agent, no skills, no subagents, no extensions. one model, one session, whole project.
features took 2 hours — 1M+ tokens, 99% cache. UI polish (rounded corners, animations) took a full day. ~40 RMB total.
do NOT use DS for UI animation work. one animation stumped me for half a day. gave up, opened Grok-4.5, 10 min done lol
open sourced, grab and build on it: https://github.com/haoyiyin/dao