thinking out loud

Despite all the AI agents, 200-line prompts, vibe-coding sessions and autonomous repos — I still enjoy writing small, boring, understandable functions the old way. Here's why.

VS Code + 47 extensions + GitHub Copilot + Cursor + Windsurf + 12 AI sidebars = somehow still slower and more distracting than tmux + nvim + fzf + zoxide.

A non-exhaustive list: Next.js apps I never shipped, three different note-taking systems, that monorepo with 92 packages, most Discord servers, and half my browser bookmarks.