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Armin Ronacher

Creator of Flask and Jinja2; writes about software and AI tooling at lucumr.pocoo.org.

13 things

ViteSoftware

loved

Tailwind and vite are great, no complaints there.

Post laying out his agentic-coding practices and tool choices. He is describing the frontend stack he settled on.

lucumr.pocoo.org ↗·2025-06-12

Claude SonnetSoftware Anthropic

liked

I exclusively use the cheaper Sonnet model. It’s perfectly adequate for my needs, and in fact, I prefer its outputs over the more expensive Opus model.

Post laying out his agentic-coding practices and tool choices.

lucumr.pocoo.org ↗·2025-06-12

llmSoftware Simon Willison

liked

This is a command line tool with plenty of plugins that lets you prompt different models. Think of it as a command-line version of Open WebUI. It’s particularly useful for quick scripting and basic automation.

Post describing the AI tools he uses day to day as a techy consumer. The list entry this describes is Simon Willison’s llm CLI.

lucumr.pocoo.org ↗·2025-01-30

MacBook Pro M1 MaxHardware Apple

liked

This allows me to run models locally on my MacBook Pro M1 Max. With the 64GB of RAM it has, it’s a pretty potent machine for basic inference despite it being three years old.

Post describing the AI tools he uses day to day as a techy consumer. The list entry this describes is Ollama, running on his MacBook.

lucumr.pocoo.org ↗·2025-01-30

JevSoftware

recommended

I would not dismiss the idea of using Jev for compaction at all. First of all because most harnesses need some pruning on compaction anyways for cost reasons which Jev might help with. I can see this being quite interesting.

x.com ↗·2026-09-18

GoSoftware Google

recommended

I’ve evaluated agent performance across different languages my workload, and if you can choose your language, I strongly recommend Go for new backend projects.

Post laying out his agentic-coding practices and tool choices.

lucumr.pocoo.org ↗·2025-06-12

Claude CodeSoftware Anthropic

uses

For all intents and purposes, here’s what I do: I predominently use Claude Code with the cheaper Max subscription for $100 a month

Post laying out his agentic-coding practices and tool choices.

lucumr.pocoo.org ↗·2025-06-12

VimSoftware

uses

This approach has even revived my usage of Vim, which lacks AI integration.

Post laying out his agentic-coding practices and tool choices.

lucumr.pocoo.org ↗·2025-06-12

OllamaSoftware

uses

First and foremost, I use this to talk to local models hosted by Ollama, but secondarily I also use it to interface with other remote services like OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek.

Post describing the AI tools he uses day to day as a techy consumer. This item is Open WebUI, which he uses to talk to Ollama-hosted local models.

lucumr.pocoo.org ↗·2025-01-30

CursorSoftware Anysphere

uses

It is a fork of Visual Studio Code with AI-based auto completion and code generation built-in. It’s my go-to for programming with AI assistance at the moment.

Post describing the AI tools he uses day to day as a techy consumer. The list entry this describes is Cursor.

lucumr.pocoo.org ↗·2025-01-30

ChatGPT PlusService OpenAI

uses

Like probably most AI users, I use ChatGPT, particularly on my phone. I pay for the Plus subscription because I use it enough to get a lot of value out of it.

Post describing the AI tools he uses day to day as a techy consumer.

lucumr.pocoo.org ↗·2025-01-30

TanStack RouterSoftware

mixed

Tanstack’s file based router does not make me super happy.

Post laying out his agentic-coding practices and tool choices. A complaint about the file-based router in the stack he otherwise settled on.

lucumr.pocoo.org ↗·2025-06-12

FableSoftware

disliked

I love it when tool calls take so long on Fable that afterwards you pay for it in cache misses.

x.com ↗·2026-09-15

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