Replaced by AI - I can officially say my job as a freelance developer has been replaced - just lost my biggest project - Yay!!

More time to work on my own project I guess

#dev #ai #indiehacker

Remember slow is fast when using AI for coding.

It is tempting to skip the planning, the review, and just commit the changes. - until you don't know how your code works, unit and integration tests work in isolation, boundaries are broken, etc.

Always code review your AI and update your rules!

I’m gonna have to give that a try. Probably faster too.

This is why I asked the question. Idk. When I started using cursor there wasn’t much integration with vscode or it was flaky. What do you use? I am considering it now. Cursor is working just fine atm. Just curious

At first glance it reminds me of Atari's Solaris. Loved that game.

What’s everyone’s favorite IDE with AI integration and why?

I’m using cursor because AI integration was better than vscode a year ago.

It’s easy to get comfortable but tools change so fast.

#dev #indiehacker

Planning and Research hands down.

Things that would take me days of reading and consideration followed by days of design and planning are now a few conversations with some review.

I use Claude Desktop for discussions, cuz memory is pretty good, generate prompts, review, then execute in cursor.

Claude Opus has been a game changer for my dev workflow.

Rules + Prompt Templates = automatic docs, ADR, git workflow, code boundaries, testing and work queues.

Feeling productive.

#buildinpublic #indiehacker

Shared theme to compose web with astro blog and starlight docs; contracts between services and zod validation is a huge win across 18+ projects, super fast for early dev and cross-cutting concerns, great for integration tests. The key here is hard contract boundaries. Hell for CI and AI. Worth It 💯