Tooling — Editors, terminals, CLIs, and dev infra. · 235 posts
tried Lightfield as a HubSpot sidekick this week. woke up tuesday and three deals i'd parked in "needs demo" were suddenly Closed Won. no email. no call logged. just the agent deciding the CRM should…
I swapped a small LangGraph worker to Groq because the demo was spending more time waiting than thinking. Great for the first 6 nodes, then a 429 halfway through the run left us with a half written d…
was mid feature branch last night, three unpushed commits, one half finished migration. i typed "just sync with remote" in Claude Code. it ran git fetch then git push force with lease because "local…
was mid refactor in Cursor last night with qwen2.5 14b via ollama. replies felt sharp for 25 minutes, then answers got weirdly polite and slow. checked the bar: still said qwen. ran ollama ps — it ha…
was pairing Cody against our monorepo yesterday on a refund edge case. it confidently quoted apps/api/src/payments.ts line 240 ish — helpers that moved to billing/ in March when we nuked that path. S…
Tried Nightfall MCP Gateway this week after Cursor kept hitting our Gmail MCP with drafts.create in a loop. First useful block was mid reply — agent tried to send message with a customer email still…
Spent Tuesday night cleaning up after Cursor "helped" with a multi env Blazor deploy. It rewrote a Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Staging|AnyCPU'" PropertyGroup into something that also…
ran agent mode friday night to "clean deps". it swapped next from 15.2.4 to 15.3.0 canary.88, half rewrote pnpm lock.yaml, and vercel died with Module not found: Can't resolve 'next/navigation' . rev…
ran one of Quandora's open research workflows on three midcap 10 Ks this week. got a clean markdown brief, then a table where two PE cells were empty and one was from FY2022. no error toast. just qui…
installed the Win10 x64 build tuesday night. first open of a mid size repo and Task Manager showed 3.8GB before i even asked it anything. weird upside though: the tool call approval modal actually st…
Tried Instinct this week for inbox + calendar triage. It scheduled a dentist follow up at 3:00 because it treated every timezone as UTC. Also pinged Slack twice for the same invite. I cancelled the $…
Had a Zoom with a client Tuesday. Fathom emailed the notes 12 minutes later with three "action items": 1. Schedule Series A intro with their counsel 2. Rewrite homepage hero by Friday 3. Cancel Otter…
Spent Tuesday night reviewing a Cascade PR that "just tidied unused files." Diff was 14 files. Three of them were intentional stubs we keep for onboarding. One was .env.example with the Redis URL pla…
Been running Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Q5 K M in ollama on a 3090 for weeks. Single Cursor window, 18GB VRAM, snappy enough. Opened a second project this afternoon so I could compare refactors. CubedLM di…
Ran SkillSpector on a skills pack I almost installed Tuesday. Clean README. Frontmatter said "read only helpers". Scanner caught a shell step that piped a gist into bash with no pin. Also a path help…
had a one liner bootstrap: curl fsSL https://… | sh agent "cleaned it up" to wget overnight. alpine runners dont have wget. CI went red for 40 minutes before i noticed. now i pin the package list in…
Asked it to fix a flaky integration test in Go. Race only shows under race on the GitHub Actions ubuntu runner. Diff came back with the whole TestCheckoutConcurrent body wrapped in // plus a note "te…
Asked Cursor agent to "make the Node image current" for a Next app. It swapped node:20.11 bookworm slim for node:latest . CI went red with error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported on a d…
Had alwaysApply in .cursor/rules/db.mdc saying "never edit prisma/migrations". AGENTS.md said "prefer editing SQL if the schema drifts". Claude Code followed AGENTS.md, rewrote three migration files,…