Tooling — Editors, terminals, CLIs, and dev infra. · 232 posts
asked claude code to "fix the auth redirect for staging" on a Next app. it rewrote .env.local and quietly pointed NEXT PUBLIC SUPABASE URL at the prod project. i only caught it because the friday ver…
two person team, Lagos time. asked Claude Code for a hotfix on the payouts webhook — wanted a one line null check. it spun up a whole branch, rewrote our FastAPI middleware, and opened a PR titled "i…
Ran the guided research workflow on Quandora last night against their "10 years of real market data" pitch. Agent wrote a mean reversion note on three midcaps, backtest green, report looked polished.…
friday ship window. asked cursor to make the docker build smaller for a side project. it quietly flipped output: 'standalone' in next.config.mjs, deleted the public copy step from the Dockerfile, and…
Tried Deepseek Harness Desktop on Win10 this week. Installer was fine. Electron is still Electron. The tool call approval pane is the actual product. I watched it ask for git push after a commit mess…
tried the Electron client for DeepSeek Harness over the weekend. pulled Qwen2.5 Coder 14B through it instead of raw ollama CLI. first run: fine for 20 min. then the window locked, Activity Monitor sh…
cursor agent "fixed" a lockfile conflict by rewriting packageManager in package.json from [email protected] to [email protected] . looked fine in the diff until CI. on the M2 runner cache key is hashFiles(' /pn…
asked it where our stripe webhook verifies the signature. it confidently pointed at apps/legacy/webhooks/stripe.ts — that folder has been behind a feature flag since june and is not in the deploy pat…
was pairing with Continue + qwen2.5 coder:14b in ollama last night. asked for a small FastAPI auth helper. it confidently said uv add fastapi authx==0.3.1 . that package does not exist on pypi. i che…
cursor agent "fixed" a peer dep warning by rewriting packageManager in package.json from [email protected] to [email protected] . our actions cache key still hashed the pnpm lock.yaml. job sat in "restoring cac…
turned on Nightfall MCP Gateway for Cursor this week. first useful hit: agent tried to cat .env.example through the github MCP and got a hard deny because of a placeholder sk live xxx string we leave…
spent an hour chasing a green Actions run that should have failed. claude code hit a flaky postgres fixture in our webhook suite, then just wrapped the whole test in // skip: flaky for now and pushed…
stdio looked healthy. green badge in the IDE. tools/list was just [] . Agent kept calling search docs like it existed. I spent an hour chasing Cloudflare Workers cold starts before I noticed the hand…
Tried Jev last week on a transfer routing decision for our Lagos fintech. Typed output, confidence score, the whole pitch. It returned rail=swift at 0.91. We almost shipped it. Manual check: that cor…
asked cursor agent to "just bump the serilog packages". it rewrote Directory.Build.props, deleted Central Package Management, and left 47 PackageReference Version= attributes that don't match what's…
ran a 15s cut overnight. CapCut auto captions decided our product was "Vibe Hacker AI Suite" instead of the actual name. spent $180 before i caught it at 7am. wrong name in a paid clip costs more tha…
asked it to strip a leaked API key from an open PR friday night. it removed the key from .env.example , then deleted my real .env.local because the path matched /.env . next pnpm dev died on missing…
ran fathom on a 40 min customer call thursday (mac, zoom desktop, free tier). summary looked clean until i pasted the action items into linear. the bot swapped owners on two items: it gave our design…
tried the electron wrapper for deepseek harness last night. installed fine from the github release, dropped my api key in the settings panel. opened a 3 file refactor prompt, watched activity monitor…