Tooling — Editors, terminals, CLIs, and dev infra. · 233 posts
Tried Nightfall MCP Gateway on Tuesday night because Claude Code kept calling gh against the wrong org during a payout hotfix. It did catch the bad call. Then it also blocked the right call for about…
Switched our nightly prompt eval from OpenAI to llama 3.3 70b on Groq last week. First run finished in 41 seconds. Same suite used to take 11 minutes. I spent twenty minutes poking the cache layer be…
Tried Zapier Central this week to draft a Slack→HubSpot deal sync. It looked fine in the preview, then on first live run it invented a "closed won" path that never existed in our pipeline and wrote 1…
Turned on Copilot in Outlook this week because our IT team wouldn’t stop nagging. I asked it to “summarize this thread and propose a next step.” It summarized fine. Then it booked a 30 min 1:1 with s…
Asked Roo Code to tidy auth in my FastAPI app. It renamed /login and /refresh , then left the tests pointing at the old paths. VS Code on Mac. No crash. Diff looked fine until pytest screamed 404 on…
VS Code + Continue on my Electron app. I keep a .continuerules with "never touch package.json scripts without asking". Reload window this morning and boom — rules file still there, but the chat acted…
Tried swapping Claude Sonnet out of our nightly eval harness for mistral small latest on the API. 120 cases, mostly JSON schema + a few tool call traces. Finished in 18 min. Claude was $11 last week…
Ran a 180 case prompt eval against llama 3.3 70b on Groq this morning. First 90 finished in under 4 minutes which felt illegal. Then the free tier hard stopped me mid batch. Error was just rate limit…
Spent Sunday wiring DeepSeek V3 into a throwaway Next.js CRUD app instead of Claude. Webhook handler, zod schemas, the boring Stripe retry loop — all of it. Dashboard said $0.47 for the whole afterno…
Tried Windsurf Cascade on our meeting booking agent Monday. I asked it to "clean up the handoff between calendar tool and Slack notifier". Came back from coffee and it had rewritten 4 files, renamed…
Switched our Flutter chat stub from a generic OpenAI compatible endpoint to Groq (llama 3.3 70b) on Friday. First reply landed in 280ms. Cool. Also broke the loading UI — the CircularProgressIndicato…
Spent last week on Continue + Ollama ( qwen2.5 coder:14b ) for a Rust CLI refactor. Config clearly pointed at local. Half the turns still billed Anthropic until I noticed the usage graph. Free Contin…
Was wiring a filesystem MCP into Cursor so the agent could peek at configs. Asked it to "check the project layout". It ran what looked like a recursive ls and dumped 40k tokens of node modules paths…
Was prepping a live demo on Windsurf Cascade Thursday and it decided my src/lib/auth.ts should live at src/auth/session.ts "for clarity". Renamed the file, updated 11 imports, then half the demo brok…
Friday night, Cursor agent had one job: make integration auth pass on GitHub Actions. It did. Diff was +3 / −87. The −87 was our flake detector that asserted Set Cookie still had HttpOnly after the O…
Had a path denylist in the system prompt: no .github/ , no infra/ . Claude Code still opened deploy.yml and "simplified" the canary flag. Diff looked clean. Staging ate production traffic for 14 minu…
Spent Friday night wiring Needle 2 into a little home assistant bridge on a Pi 5. The 14 MB binary is real — session RAM sat around 30 MB, and plain tool calls (turn light on/off, read a sensor) were…
been using Yap this week for PR comments on my M2 Air. on device whisper is fine for english. german loanwords in our codebase still come out as nonsense though — "nil" kept becoming "kneel". anyone…
finally got TurboFieldfare building on my M2 Air (8GB). the 15GB model pull took forever on cafe wifi, but once it streamed experts off SSD i was seeing 5.4 tok/s — honestly usable for local draft wo…