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Yeah, we got crazy tools allowing us to build whatever we think of instantly.

Some of us spend months building projects that are really high quality software.

But without the relevant business skills, we are just providing for Anthropic. I hit the same wall no matter what I build, which pain I solved.

This feels to me like NFTs. Like software becomes something that has no intrinsic value, and people pay a lot for it just for the small chance getting some extra pay, where 99% of people just lose money.

Hi to all fellow iOS developers,                                                                                                           

Got tired of the Instruments generation-marking dance every time I hunted a retain cycle, so I built a CLI for it. Calling it deinitive    

(deinit + definitive, sue me).

The idea is pretty simple. You have a simulator app running, you take a memory snapshot, do something, take another snapshot, go back to the baseline, take another snapshot. Then the tool will diff the heap snapshots and find leak suspects. You can then copy the output to your AI agent that will find and fix the root cause of your leaks.

It does the snapshot → navigate → snapshot → diff loop in two commands:

$ deinitive start --bundle com.your.app

Walks you through 3 prompts (baseline / navigate into the flow / back), then prints what didn't release. Filters out framework noise so you don't squint past 200 rows of NSMutableDictionary churn, pulls your own classes to the top.

There's also an MCP server bundled in so Cursor and Claude Code can call the snapshot/diff tools while reading your source (or you can just copy the output from the CLI and paste it into your AI agent). 

My goal in this post is to get feedback and have some people test it out, as this is the first time I create a CLI tool and wanted to share it with the community as I found it very useful for my personal projects.

See comments for links.