Andrew Smith

I went from VS Code to Zed to a terminal-only agentic workflow. Here is the tooling that finally let me run several threads of work at once, and what it cost me to get there.

Four months ago I argued that Ansible was the right tool for automating my dev environment. I have since deleted all of it and replaced it with Nix. Here is what changed my mind.

I rewrote my dev environment automation from scratch, trading bash scripts for Ansible playbooks. Here's what changed, what got harder, and whether it was worth it.