I Cleaned My Mom's Phone: A Case Study in Photo Junk
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My mom called me on a Sunday. "My phone says storage full and I can't take pictures of your niece." I drove over expecting a five-minute fix. Two hours later I had a small taxonomy of digital clutter and a new appreciation for why photo storage is a genuinely hard product problem. Here is what I found, and what it taught me about building on-device photo cleanup. The Three Categories of Photo Junk When I actually looked at her 8,000-photo library, the junk fell into three clean buckets. 1.…
1Key Takeaways
- "My phone says storage full and I can't take pictures of your niece." I drove over expecting a five-minute fix.
- Two hours later I had a small taxonomy of digital clutter and a new appreciation for why photo storage is a genuinely hard product problem.
- Here is what I found, and what it taught me about building on-device photo cleanup.
- The Three Categories of Photo Junk When I actually looked at her 8,000-photo library, the junk fell into three clean buckets.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that "My phone says storage full and I can't take pictures of your niece." I drove over expecting a five-minute fix.
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