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I Stopped Typing Prompts and Reading Chat: How My AI Setup Evolved

How my AI setup evolved from one IDE window per project to talking with one agent, reviewing visual output and dictating by voice.

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Fran Soto
Nov 08, 2026
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In this article, I want to share how my AI setup has evolved over time: the learnings that I got from each setup, and what is the current state of the art for working with AI (the metagame for those of you who played video games).

We keep working with AI exactly as it was in GPT-2 or GPT-3: A chatbot that produces text in English, and we communicate in English writing. The models have evolved a lot. They are now producing code, but we still communicate as if it were GPT-2 producing English text.

It’s time for a reset

For paid subscribers, you'll get the entire evolution of my setup so you can identify yourself in any of these steps. And what are the next steps towards a much better setup? All of you can find ideas from this evolution and adapt them to your use cases.

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Four steps of a staircase showing how my setup evolved: IDE windows, colored tabs, a multiplexer, and one agent that dispatches to other agents.

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