I started using macOS since I was a teenager 10+ years ago, and even til this day, I still don't understand how to properly uninstall a local application. That changed today.

I was dogfooding my desktop agent when I realize it could just find everything related to an app to delete them which is actually the correct way of uninstalling apps. I have a million apps that haven't been used and my laptop is getting slow. App just magically starts to go away after it runs a bunch of cmd's. Kimi also taught me the existance of `\~/.appname` directories which I didn't realize I've a million things in there already, from apps I've not used in years. (remember windsurf?!?!)

I uninstalled a few different Apps and realized it keeps trying to run `find \~/Library/Application\ Support` which takes really long since it's recursive. I gave Kimi the feedback, we decided its better to glob match at the top level instead of recurse. So I asked it to edit its base knowledge (my equivalent of SOUL.md) to always do that to uninstall apps. It got a lot better.

I feel like maybe this teach and improve domain knowledge into written processes is the new era of software development? but who am i to say :)

oh and i prefer doing this with my own agent over Claude for a few reasons

1. one key press voice input
2. OSS models that works with any openai compatible provider
3. tiny code base and total control so no random nerfs and gaslighting
4. query bar / text editor that doesn't require pressing arrow keys for 10 minutes to make an edit

here's the Github repo if you're interested: https://github.com/Emericen/openmnk