Chepe Toño

💻 👨 🇳🇮 Nicaragua | Software Developer | Tweets are my own

[Chepe Toño @chepetorva]

@fmontes @OpenRouter que harness estas usando?

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore.

You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.

[Chepe Toño @chepetorva]

@JoannaStern I like Spark. I likes that they group based on Notifications and Newsletter.

[Todd Saunders @toddsaunders]

I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this.....

But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software.

I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer in industrial piping construction in Houston. He normally works with chemical plants and refineries, but now he also works with the terminal

He reached out in a DM a few days ago and I was so fired up by his story, I asked him if we could record the conversation and share it.

He built a full application that industrial contractors are using every day. It reads piping isometric drawings and automatically extracts every weld count, every material spec, every commodity code.

Work that took 10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes, saving days of time.

His co-workers are all mind blown, and when he talks to them, it's like they are speaking different languages.

His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also had to learn everything about Claude Code, the terminal, VS Code, everything.

My favorite quote from him was when he said, "I literally did this with zero outside help other than the AI. My favorite tools are screenshots, step by step instructions and asking Claude to explain things like I'm five."

Every trades worker with deep expertise and a willingness to sit down with Claude Code for a few weekends is now a potential software founder.

I can't wait to meet more people like Cory.

[Chepe Toño @chepetorva]

Google Workspace CLI Now available: https://t.co/DSunxSgtBU

2026 will give more skills that you can imagine

[Chepe Toño @chepetorva]

@mattpocockuk what is the ralph package? I can't find it

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow.

Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes.

As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now.

It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

[Chepe Toño @chepetorva]

Hahaha I just can not believe it

[David Hill @iamdavidhill]

my favourite ai companies right now:

- DeepSeek
- Moonshot AI
- MiniMax

[Carlos Santana @DotCSV]

¿100 años de perdón, no?

[Chepe Toño @chepetorva]

Hey @thdxr what is your current combinations of models that you are using? I get curious what is building opencode

[Chepe Toño @chepetorva]

I don't even know what to say:

@opencode with GLM-4.7

[Chepe Toño @chepetorva]

@iannuttall January 2026, on next month we'll have something else

[Chepe Toño @chepetorva]

@aradhna00 @grok @grok which are those apps?

[Chepe Toño @chepetorva]

So now I will start using Wispr Flow for everything. Let's see how my coding goes with it.

[Chepe Toño @chepetorva]

Hey, is anyone using the Agent mode primarily?

[Chepe Toño @chepetorva]

I lived all of these on my late 20

[Aaron @IAmAaronWill]

Can't even argue

[Chepe Toño @chepetorva]

I personally speaking the most valuable mode in @cursor_ai is “Asking” in big codebases help me to reduce time by a lot to me and colleagues, so I don’t make silly questions 😅

[Chepe Toño @chepetorva]

@rauchg Wow 10 years, kudos for that. Vercel is an example for all latam.

[Chepe Toño @chepetorva]

@jherr Totally true! I spend more time reading llm response that reading code as well

[Chepe Toño @chepetorva]

A true improvement happens when you changed Caps Lock to be a Ctrl Key. Your pinky will thank you .

[El Programador Senior @5eniorDeveloper]

Solo los verdaderos devs saben que laptop tiene esta distribución de teclado