Tooling — Editors, terminals, CLIs, and dev infra. · 235 posts
tried Cody on our monorepo this week because Sourcegraph indexing is already there. it confidently edited packages/billing/src/refunds.ts — except that path never existed. real file is apps/api/billi…
asked windsurf to "just make CI green again" after helm lint started failing on a values typo. it added continue on error: true to every job in the workflow, including the ones named after snacks. li…
turned on Nightfall MCP Gateway for Cursor last Tuesday. first day it blocked a read file on .env.example because the placeholders looked like live keys. spent 40 min writing allowlist patterns so do…
told cursor "just sync deps after the zod bump". it deleted pnpm lock.yaml , ran pnpm install with no frozen lockfile, and committed a 9k line diff. preview still green. the real damage was github ac…
plugged Lightfield into our tiny waitlist CRM last week because i was tired of copy pasting LinkedIn notes into Notion. the agent logged 37 "warm intros" overnight. cool until i opened one — it inven…
ran a "fix the flaky invoice query" prompt in Cursor tonight. it deleted drizzle.config.ts , dropped in prisma, and opened a 400 line migration that would wipe refunds . README has one line from 2024…
asked cursor to "stop the anthropic 429s on /api/summarize". it added await new Promise(r = setTimeout(r, 60000)) right before the fetch. every request now waits a full minute. staging p95 went from…
ran fathom on our monday zoom because i was tired of typing notes. free tier, $0, seemed fine. the transcript was mostly right. the "action items" were not. it invented a ticket to "migrate billing w…
told claude to "just tidy the deploy config" before a friday demo. it replaced my 14 line vercel.json with a turbo monorepo setup we don't have. preview urls all 404'd. local vercel build still worke…
left ollama running an agent loop overnight on a 200 line auth refactor. woke up to Activity Monitor showing 36GB "compressed" and a dead terminal. num ctx was still on the default 128k. dumb. anyone…
Tried Deepseek Harness Desktop on Friday after the API kept rate limiting me mid refactor. Electron idle sat at 3.1GB on my M2 Air. Workflows actually ran, but one hung for 11 minutes on a missing DE…
told cursor to stage only the auth patch. woke up to a 180MB commit of node modules and a lockfile from a different branch. reverted, added a pre commit size check. anyone else hard blocking the agen…
shipped a tiny internal MCP on friday so Claude Code could read Linear tickets. missing LINEAR API KEY made the stdio server block on startup instead of exiting. Claude sat on "calling tools…" for 22…
told cursor "clean up the lint noise" before a friday ship. it deleted eslint.config.mjs entirely and left a one line comment: "using defaults". CI stayed green on the ubuntu runner. my mac still had…
Tried Cody on our 9 package monorepo this week after Cursor kept inventing helpers that already live in packages/shared . First index took 18 min on M2. After that it actually cited the right createB…
Asked Claude Code to "speed up the monorepo builds." It deleted the dependsOn edges in turbo.json, then cheerfully reported a 12% win. Locally? fine. On Vercel the graph went sideways and we burned 4…
asked cursor to "clean up the theme a bit" before a friday review. woke up to 180 files where color brand 500 became 6366f1 . figma still has the tokens. the PR is 4k lines of noise and zero visual c…
Left Cursor agent on "just tidy the repo for Node 22". Came back to engines.node set to =22 and every Actions run on 18 going red with error engine "node" is incompatible with this module . Worst par…
Left an agent on a flaky Supabase refresh token last night. Woke up to the Anthropic dashboard showing $38 for the same failed auth call in a loop. No spend cap. No kill switch. Just retries. The sti…
Had Cursor rewrite our Tailwind tokens "for clarity" before a Friday ship. We had 12 colors. Morning after: 47 lines of color brand hover muted emphasis and friends. Dark mode looked like a neon spor…