I like Zed...

but AI dev workflows get complicated fast

you start with claude code or codex and it's cute, but then you realize - hmm configuration is cheap, the AI can do it!

then you start looking into MCPs and skills, fuck it, oh-my-pi looks awesome!

wait a second? I can just have AI make my own personal AI harness! Next thing you know, you're writing the 5th version of "little-coder" or similar using the Pi library

ahh shit, you just read an article that `tools` are actually crazy important for AIs, using `sed` is dumb when `hashline` + ASTs are way better, lets just start writing our own tools!!

...anyway I just use Zed, simple agent on the left, code on the right

i have some pretty complicated automated workflows that use `linear` + a orchestrator -> implementer -> reviewer -> releaser workflow, but it's less a dev stack and an AI factory