Living article: This article is constantly being updated. Instead of pretending there is one timeless way to code, I’m keeping a record of how my workflow changes as the tools change.

Timeline

Workflow changelog · oldest to newest

2025

  1. May

    I'm using Cursor; it's a lot of fun

  2. July

    I'm reaching Cursors's quota all the time. Not fun. Also using Warp as my terminal.

  3. August

    I'm using Composer (Cursor's own model). It's is actually pretty fast!

  4. October

    I reached my quota again? Switching to Auto, Cursor's freemium option.

  5. November

    Auto sucks. I will upgrade to the €200 Cursor subscription.

  6. December

    Opus 4.5 is amazing! I also heard about Clawdbot but ignore it.

2026

  1. January

    I reached the Cursor quota again! Switching to using Claude Code directly.

  2. February

    Fuck! I'm late to the Clawdbot hype. I set it up. It took one day.

  3. March

    I'm using Clawdbot, now called Moltbot, now called OpenClaw, on Telegram. I send a voice message, and it spawns a Claude Code agent on my EC2 instance, commits the code, pushes it to Vercel, and tells me when the deployment is done.

  4. April

    Ah! Nevermind. Clawdbot consumes too many tokens while constantly failing to achieve certain tasks. The concept is cool but not ready.

  5. May

    I'm using Codex. Solid models, solid UX, and cheaper than Anthropic's. I use Cursor only as my text editor.

  6. JulyLatest

    Codex is amazing. It's gotten so much better. But I still need a text editor from time to time. So I uninstall Cursor (Warp is next) and install the nice and lightweight VS Code.

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