Tweet by thdxr

July 18, 2026

anyone talking about their custom setups to make ai more effective isn't doing anything useful coding used to be manual labor. typing the code out, doing large changes, jumping between files. a fancy, bespoke setup could make a difference but it's not like that anymore, you have a magic box you can say stuff into and things happen people haven't understood this, they're still spending their energy tinkering with what's behind the box. the underlying tone is always frustration. they're clearly not happy and maybe even on a burn out path the best people at this are doing the best work of their life all while happier than ever they could do this even on a vanilla setup the box can already do amazing things. it can even produce the best code of your life. it's limited entirely by the person using it and their creativity and their ambition and you're not gonna get that in a skill file

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thdxr
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July 18, 2026
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