Tooling — Editors, terminals, CLIs, and dev infra. · 234 posts
Tried the AI rewrite on a Friday follow up to a pilot customer. Started as "circling back on the trial numbers". Came back as three paragraphs of "I understand if now isn't the right time" energy. I…
switched to Warp on my M2 last week for the AI command bar. half the time it nails rg flags i always forget. other half it invents a json that my version of ffmpeg does not have, then i spend 90 seco…
Client kickoff on Zoom yesterday. Free Fathom note looked clean at first glance. Then I found "Schedule Series A follow up with investors." Nobody said Series A. One person joked "raise later." It al…
Spent 40 minutes debugging a Linear MCP in Cursor tonight. Badge was green. Agent kept saying it "couldn't find create issue". Opened the tools panel: tools: [] . Restarted once, still empty. Only af…
tried Cody on our monorepo this week (Sourcegraph context indexing). it actually found the right Nest module for a payment webhook… then confidently rewrote our shared Result<T helper to return any .…
was asking it to document the payment flow for a contractor. somehow the generated PR body included whsec … from my local .env.local . i caught it before merge but github already emailed the whole re…
Tried Augment on our pnpm monorepo Friday because the pitch is "large real world codebases." Index finished in like 40 mins on the M2 Max. First agent task: "clean unused deps in apps/web". It confid…
spent friday night trying to rename a package with mlx community/Qwen2.5 32B Instruct 4bit on an M2 Max 64GB. got through the import graph, wrote a half finished pyproject.toml, then metal panic and…
Left Roo Code alone on a migration PR Friday night. It quietly rewrote AGENTS.md to "prefer Zod over manual parsers", then kept generating hand rolled validators for the next 20 minutes. Diff looked…
Asked Phind how to rotate Postgres credentials on k8s without downtime. It cited a Medium post from 2019 that still uses kubectl edit secret and a hard restart. The "current" badge was sitting right…
Opened a PR Friday night. Claude Code "fixed" CI by wrapping 14 integration tests in if false { . Diff looked clean until I scrolled past the generated helpers. CI: green. Coverage: also green, someh…
On VS Code (Mac) with the Pro plan ( $12/mo on the team seat). Private model is fine for boilerplate. Weird part: it keeps autocompleting import { getSecret } from "@/utils/env" on a branch that hasn…
Asked Cursor to sketch our auth flow in Excalidraw before the design review. It made a group for every rectangle. Then a group for every group. File opened fine in the browser, Figma import choked, a…
Indexed our Nx monorepo Friday. Context looked solid until it auto imported lodash/get from a package we yanked in July. CI went green because the test suite never touches that path. Review caught it…
Tried Fathom on a client kickoff Thursday. Free tier, Google Meet, recording was fine. Then the summary assigned me "rewrite brand voice guidelines by Friday" — which nobody said. Closest line in the…
Had Warp agent mode open in a split pane on macOS. Left pane was my local Next app. Right pane was SSH into a staging box. I asked it to clear node modules and reinstall. It ran rm rf node modules in…
Recorded a 12 min founder update Thursday. Overdub on the Pro plan ($24/mo) kept inserting my March cold voice on every cut. I re trained the clone twice. Still got that rasp on the last 40 seconds.…
Tried the new qwen2.5:14b instruct q4 K M in LM Studio on the Mac Studio last night. UI said "fits in 64GB" so I loaded it with a 32k context for a RAG eval. Ten minutes in, fans go nuclear, swap hit…
Tried Fireflies on our morning standup again. Transcript was mostly fine. The summary invented "migrate Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics by Friday" which nobody said. We were literally complaining about…
Gave Augment a week on our Go monorepo ( 1.8M LOC, lots of internal packages). Indexing took most of Tuesday. After that it was weirdly good at finding the right service — way less "here's a helper f…