#tooling

7 items tagged #tooling.

BLOG 2026-05-10

Why I run an AI chat aggregator alongside Cursor

AI editors like Cursor are great inside the editor. For email drafting, browser-side research, and quick model comparisons, a general AI aggregator does what coding-native tools weren't built for. Here's how I split the two.

Owner · 6 min #workflow #tooling

BLOG 2026-04-29

Open-source vs closed-source AI coding tools: the honest tradeoffs

Aider and Cline are open source. Cursor and Copilot aren't. The choice between them comes down to four tradeoffs that aren't usually framed clearly.

Owner · 7 min #open-source #tooling

GUIDE 2026-04-16

Aider with pre-commit hooks: making the linter the model's feedback loop

Aider's auto-commit feature can run pre-commit hooks. Configured well, this means the linter rejects bad suggestions before they reach your branch. Configured badly, it loops forever.

Owner · 6 min #aider #pre-commit

BLOG 2026-04-14

Why your team should pick one AI tool and stick with it

Tool diversity in a team feels like flexibility. In practice, it's a hidden tax on collaboration. Here's why the strongest teams converge on one tool.

Owner · 5 min #team #tooling

BLOG 2026-03-26

The 7B coding model renaissance: small models are good enough for more than you think

Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B, DeepSeek Coder V2 lite, and a few others are quietly making 'small local model' a real category. The use cases that fit are larger than the 'just for autocomplete' framing.

Owner · 5 min #models #local-models

BLOG 2026-02-29

The monorepo tax on AI coding tools

AI coding tools work better on small repos than large ones. The gap shows up in specific places. Here's where, and what to do about it.

Owner · 4 min #monorepo #tooling

CASE STUDY 2026-01-04

Aider for Python tooling modernization: from setup.py to pyproject.toml

Migrating 30 internal Python tools from setup.py to modern pyproject.toml with uv. Aider was useful for the mechanical translation.

Editor · 4 min #aider #python