Christian Cito

product engineer / working on @madebyarthouse / german: @christian_cito_

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The world's richest centi-billionaire oligarch used his power to change the rules, so he could dump his garbage company (which is cartoonishly overvalued, unprofitable, and incinerating cash) on retail investors, using trillions of dollars in retirement funds as exit liquidity, all in order to become the first trillionaire.

This is the perfect metaphor for the US economy as a whole, which is entirely based on bubbles and scams.

[Jamon @jamonholmgren]

The Zeitgeist is changing a bit.

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

enjoy that sunset while you can—soon a swarm of superintelligent AI agents will be able to appreciate it more rapidly and efficiently than you ever could

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

“Everyone can code now!”

Dude, no one can code now.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

The only people who believe any of this are non-coders.

I tried to build a game (an area I’m an n00b in.) The results are amusingly disastrous - I never before coded a decent game.

But I’ll crack out backend services w AI rapidly - because I coded dozens of them before…

[Christian Cito @chrcit]

Same advice is applicable for 90%+ of software engineers

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

Never aspire to a "unique" public transit technology. It means everything is more expensive and someday some vendor can shut you down if they quit making parts. The more you use technologies in common use, the more actual public transport you'll be able to provide.

[Kelvin Fichter @kelvinfichter]

> Codex: You're totally right, I went ahead and built that new script instead, I left the old script that I built 30 seconds ago as a legacy/compatibility layer in case any users might be using it

[goma @soigomaa]

My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away

[Christian Cito @chrcit]

@jullerino @Francesco_Oddo @theo I had this happen as well once, I think the agent was doing some web browsing

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

One of my working theses is that the *desire* for AI already betrays a condition of thought poverty and incuriosity. You have a beautiful spare room with a view like that and it never occurred to you to put a nice table in it?

[David Cramer @zeeg]

and fuck every investor, founder, and executive in silicon valley that quietly (or not) goes along with it just to promote their own capitalistic goals

[Christian Cito @chrcit]

@CurtisFlaming @devagrawal09 @tan_stack Thanks for the the write up!

The URL state wrangling is definitely annoying in RR.

What I‘m most excited about for TSR is the tight integration with react-query!

How would you say is stability and quality of docs? It‘s still in beta right?

[Christian Cito @chrcit]

@CurtisFlaming @devagrawal09 @tan_stack I‘m planning to adopt TS for more app-like projects instead of RR7.

What would you say are the main benefits you have seen?

[Christian Cito @chrcit]

@mindtheflo @conductor_build I’ve been using conductor for a few months and while it‘s a lot better than just CLI it‘s nowhere close to Cursor as a full blown IDE.

Also it really starts lagging and breaking once I put it under some mild work load lol

[Christian Cito @chrcit]

The only reason I‘m not using Cursor for everything is that OpenAI/Anthropic are giving away 200$+/month of usage for 20$ lol

[Flo @mindtheflo]

Drives me nuts that @cursor_ai is so underrated at this point. I’ve spent the last week with Claude code, Codex, the new codex app and of course Conductor and can tell you know: night and day. Being on X, I felt I was missing on something. Well not at all. Turns out everyone is missing on Cursor.

Here’s my top five:
- Cursor with Opus 4.5 is unbeatable. Full stop. Even the native Claude code harness doesn’t come close.
- Bug agent is so so SO good that I asked Cursor to create a skill I could use with Codex and Claude to get work done. Pure genius from the team here.
- Cursor has made installing MCPs and Skills so easy that I didn’t realize how bad the others were until I tried. Who wants to waste 15 minutes figuring out the format of each agent and unique workflow to Oauth.
- Cursor agents management is best in class (even though I’m impatiently waiting for them to create some sort of Kanban to track which work I’ve reviewed)
- The UI is delightful to surface everything you need when you need it so you never have to search online how to do something. But it’s powerful enough that you can always go crazy when needed (sub agents, hooks, etc).

I could go on and on talking about how they accidentally created one or maybe the best agentic browser. Then there is composer, by far the best way to work on UI side by side with an agent at light speed. Oh and let’s not forget Bugbot that is pretty much managing my whole QA and fixing things autonomously at this point. 🤯

So yep, I’m keeping my 3 ULTRA (likely need a 4th one this month) subscriptions. I hope they launch a generous 2K plan soon as this would feel cheap for running what feels like a team of 10 engineers in 2020.

I love you @cursor_ai. @notis_ai would not be half the product it is without your work. You are my daily North Star when it comes to building a product that is 200$/month and yet look stupidly cheap.

PS: thank you for shipping updates every day that delight me.

[Christian Cito @chrcit]

@arthurzablocki @usemonologue Absolutely, such a smart idea to add a streak calendar w/ stats and ranking

I kept checking if my rank improved at the end of the day lol

[Christian Cito @chrcit]

Inching closer to the top @usemonologue

[Christian Cito @chrcit]

@peer_rich @calcom That’s would be great!

Often it is added as a secondary German translations called „German (informell)“

[Christian Cito @chrcit]

@peer_rich @calcom Is there any way to change the (default) German translations from "Sie" to "Du" ?

"Confirm your details" currently translates to "Bestätigen Sie Ihre Daten" which doesn't match the language used by a customer of mine!

[Christian Cito @chrcit]

@JackEllis This brings back old memories lol

When I was 8 my dad used to make me translate short books from English to German to improve my English skills

This was my first and maybe that’s why I handle change well haha