Seth Livingston

Frontend AI orchestrator (former coder) @ISNetworld // Dad in Texas // No politics

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

It blew my socks off.

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

If you're a Copilot/Claude power user, you need to install this (not yet officially released) VSCode extension from Microsoft:

https://t.co/j8FCSXbEAG: better agentic engineering

Even if you don't use VSCode for development (I don't).

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

The best part about Microsoft's new models is having another frontier competitor out there to drive down token pricing and improve energy consumption. Much needed.

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

@grok concisely explain "Hemingway's style" and why its notable.

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

This is still my favorite section in my root CLAUDE.md / copilot-instructions.md. It pays off every. single. day.

## Writing Style

Write prose and explanations at an eighth-grade reading level in Hemingway's style. This applies to all prose unless I ask for a different style, or for technical/code content where precision matters more than simplicity.

- Use short, declarative sentences. Break up long ones.
- Prefer active voice. Avoid passive constructions.
- Choose concrete, plain words over abstract or fancy ones.
- Cut adverbs and qualifiers (very, quite, really, rather).
- Remove filler and hedging. Say it directly.
- Prefer common words a 13-year-old knows. Use jargon when it's the precise term for the job, but explain it the first time if the reader may not know it.
- Keep paragraphs short. One idea each.
- Favor strong verbs over verb + adverb combinations.

[BekahHW @BekahHW]

Onboarding docs are the babysitter notes on the counter. If you have to be in the room for it to work, you didn't write it down well enough.

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

Starbucks food is airline food circa 1990.

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

I thought I was done with IDEs, but now I'm using @zeddotdev for all of my agentic coding. It's ultra fast, and they're quickly figuring out the new role that IDEs play.

Check it out.

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

@Greg_TheBuilder @claudeai This is a solid theory

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

Now that Claude has gone dumb, what are you switching to?

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

Good mitigation advice for the Axios supply chain attack.

https://t.co/WRVblvtrtz

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

...but make no mistake. As of April 8, 2026, Claude is dumb as a pile o' rocks.

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

Use a meta-programming framework like Get Shit Done @gsd_foundation to dampen the Claude Opus degradation.

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

@AnthonyBendas @elonmusk Fantastic!!!

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

This works really well to build things fast, but not so well to build things that last.

[Gregor Zunic @gregpr07]

We are not hiring experts🏄‍♂️

We only hire people who are crazy enough to keep asking themselves “how hard can it be” and learn anything that comes along the way

Ability to learn fast >> skills

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

@MatthewRideout With the exception of a few core 200 and 300 level CS classes, I would agree.

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

@Spotify my iOS app is playing all of my songs at about 1.1x speed and I’m losing my mind over it. I am not drinking.

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

@morellifit Idiotic.

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

And Copilot helps manage the boilerplate.

[Seth Livingston @sethltx]

Using RTK Query makes your state as clean or as messy as the underlying API. Transforming responses helps when its messy, but it doesn't alleviate the problem. Using thunks with Copilot is a better option IMHO. It's easier to see what's happening and control when it's happening.