Fernando Abolafio

generalist dev and football lover - building @attive_ai and Cursor Ambassador in Denmark

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

@thevictorduarte Que

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

Many or most problems of scale are not code, they are people.

Also there’s the concept of “aptitude” yes- code became more accessible that more people will want to do that.

Youtube gave everyone the possibility to broadcast, but not everyone wants to do that. The common sense might have said otherwise, by looking ahead of its time.

[Lee Robinson @leerob]

"Engineering, product, and design are all merging into a 'builder' role"

Yeah... I'm not so sure. This feels like an oversimplification and podcast talking point. Reality is a lot more complex.

Even with 1000 "Member of Technical Staff" titles, someone still has to wake up and care 100x more about Product or Design than anyone else. It is their Main Thing™

That's not to say MTS titles are universally bad, but I think they're an example of this 'builder' talking point that's become bastardized.

AI and coding agents have made generating code easy and yet... you're in for a world of pain if non-engineers ship a bunch of slop and don't have great engineers to tame the complexity.

The SF hivemind has a tendency to overfit what works at startups for every company. And to be fair, sometimes this is true! Startups can be a leading indicator for how the industry is changing and often cause disruption.

However, it is going to be incredibly hard to disrupt the extremely human parts of corporate jobs. You really think there's going to be a PM who also does some engineering and design on the side at JPMorgan Chase?

This is true for the simple parts of most jobs, like people wanting to have ownership over something and do good work, move up a career ladder, support their family, get paid well, make an honest living...

And also the hard parts: internal politics, some critical business system that has a bus factor of 1 which has been running for 15 years and isn't documented anywhere because it's that guy's job security. The real world has a lot of this stuff.

It's easy to pontificate about all roles collapsing but it's actually really nice to have a specific person or team who is an expert in one thing that you can work with. I don't expect that to change. Further, I think AI disruption to knowledge work will take decades to play out because it is more fundamental to the human condition (e.g. sociological/organizational) than pure intelligence.

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

I’m experimenting with it for project management. Esp. for side projects I have almost no time. I can add Hermes to a group with a friend (the non technical) and have Hermes track issues and talk with Cursor to coordinate tasks. The memory feature is very handy for this type of work.

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

Yes. I’ve been building my startup solo for the past 1.5y and I get to be the all-in-one role, it feels like living in the future. For the past 6m I am consulting with a multi-decade old firm. My method of work simply doesn’t work there. To get work fone I need to exercise influence, deal with a narrow paths in the codebase that no one know why it exists and I won’t dare deleting it recklessly. The problem space it’s so much larger, both from the codebase and everything else that’s external of it.

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

Yep

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/0DyFIXJueI

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

@ryolu_ @shujiuanchen Softer ware

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

Power users account for a large share of AI activity, and the gap is widening.

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

This PR review with chat on the side is so sick

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

@NipseyHoussle But there are many other examples of it. This is a really good example of don’t believe on everything you see on X

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

@NipseyHoussle Not true in Denmark. House showings are always on Sundays

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

@quxiaoyin Moving to a similar stack except I have Cursor instead o Claude Code and Codex. I gave Hermes access to manage Cursor which works really well. I can use Hermes as the project manager and delegate tasks over to Curaor

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

DeepSeek v4 pro is pretty capable and has a decent personality but the reasoning is very lengthy and annoying

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

Whats a non obvious model you like?

Been trying the DeepSeek, Qwen and others but haven’t found a good daily assistant that has yet a well rounded experience such as GPT/Claude.

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

installed Hermes this weekend, and honestly one of the biggest benefits is that a chat app such as Telegram is just a way better chat app all around duh

ofc, there's all the craziness you can do with it but just that smooth chat app exp changes a lot

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

@devagrawal09 Got it! Thanks for the answer. Looking forward to give it a try. I can see this as a great fit for the “one man software agency” I’m tinkering with :)

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

Dope

[Dev Agrawal @devagrawal09]

Introducing: Specter

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Agents can finally work on large complex codebases reliably

[Travis Curnutte @traviscurnutte]

I’m seriously considering moving all of my projects to cursor.

It’s magic.

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

@ericzakariasson @grok not from grok but i built this: https://t.co/z00HG4ltnr

pretty neat, Hermes does the project mgmt and delegate tasks over to Cursor.

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

https://t.co/li7dx8qtXx

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

Ok, I got a Cursor SDK plugin for Hermes in case you:

https://t.co/z00HG4ltnr

now Hermes manages my projects while Cursor executes it 👌

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

Cursor <> Hermes working really smooth so far. I created a plugin for hermes to use the Cursor SDK in Python and onboarded it on the tasks i had, it suggested that we manage it via github issues, which works great for me since it can just use it via gh cli

[Fernando Abolafio @oxfernando]

so my idea is to turn hermes into a sort of PM for me. I have a project I'm developing with brother (whos' non tech) and he provides me with feedback and I need to do the task mgmt + prompt refine before sending off to Cursor.
So the goal is that I will just add Hermes to our chat and ask it to execute the updates, without very little intervention from me.

The long term vision here is a one man software agency where the agents do all the heavy lifting and I just get to monitor here and there