My Thoughts on AI, Part 2: Agent Setup, Workflow, and Tools
Fears, Opinions, and Mental Journey so you understand how I ended up with this mindset and approach. Or maybe you saw how long it was and just immediately bailed out:) Welcome either way.
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Fears, Opinions, and Mental Journey so you understand how I ended up with this mindset and approach.
Or maybe you saw how long it was and just immediately bailed out:) Welcome either way.
As I said in Part 1: I am not trying to sell anything, change anyone's mind, or say I am an expert.
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The useful part
Fears, Opinions, and Mental Journey so you understand how I ended up with this mindset and approach. Or maybe you saw how long it was and just immediately bailed out:) Welcome either way. How I approach using AI for writing code, what tools I use, how I have them configured.
How it works
- ) I'm not saying that everybody should follow them, but this is where I've landed.
- Opus 4.6 IDE / VCS: VS Code and Fork <a href="https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2026/05/ai-thoughts-part-2-agent-workflow-too...
- What my actual agent setup and dev workflow looks like.
- follow along in that repo for the pieces as I describe them here.
- You can see a cleaned-up version of my config at https://github.com/markerikson/opencode-config-example.
What to take from it
As I said in Part 1: I am not trying to sell anything, change anyone's mind, or say I am an expert.
Details worth keeping
Introduction Hopefully you've already read Part 1: Here's the part that probably more of you are interested in:).
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