Started this great article about AI coding, and I already feel seen. Templates were so exciting in 2002. fly.io/blog/youre-all…

Finding more and more I'm just using the main Desktop tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) rather than feeling like I need to build agents. Areas in which I want to code against #AI APIs: - task repetition for multiple files - critique loops to improve text - pasting between non-MCP

Just been trying Zed with Gemini 2.5 for a morning of coding. Takeaways: • Zed is much nicer than VSCode based editors • I really miss smart auto-complete to repeat one change elsewhere • Tools like `Web` aren't available in Inline Assist which I use all the time for small

The thing that sets apart Cursor over over AI coding IDEs for me is not the agents/prompting: it's the UX. The tiny friction reducers like amazing smart autocomplete, tools in Inline Assist, easy checkpointing, automatic linting fixes, etc Once we move beyond IDEs these

Can I have sub-projects in my AI tools, with layers of context please? I want a folder structure, or the ability to write a prompt in multiple projects at once...

Just tried local MCP servers, again. Bleurgh. I'm pretty technical and it took an hour to get one of the most popular ones working at all, and then the results were extremely poor. MCP local is a rabbit hole. Don't bother. Remote, well maintained MCP servers is the way to go.

Whew: more LinkedIn posts scheduled for the next 3 days. It's exhausting coming up with actually good AI content all the time!

you see this kind of reaction is why I use Claude over ChatGPT 😁 (although I'm already missing the per project memory)

Bitten the bullet and paid for Opus and the Claude Max plan for Claude Code. Jury is out so far: trying to be objective on usage and state hypotheses up front.

Your AI experiments are failing because you're biasing yourself, and being smart makes it worse. How to prevent it: We all suffer from these biases (and many more): → Anchoring Bias - First AI result skews all evaluation → Availability Heuristic - Recent examples feel more

new website (eek): chrismdp.com what do you think?

I have recently gone back to Notion after a long break. Why? MCP. Changes everything.

You control less of your AI conversation than you think. (Quite proud of this infographic. Didn't do well on LinkedIn. Perhaps X users are more discerning?)

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I'm demoing how I'm use Claude Code / AI for writing and thinking this Thursday! Sign up to attend or for the recording: chrismdp.com/webinar

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