Windsurf usually with Claude Sonnet 3.7. Over the years I had invented various automation tools. Often with the Swiss Army Knife of Open Source, the codebases of these tools would “age out“. 

Like for example PhantomJS wherein the maintainer moved on, I’d need to dig, find Puppeteer, figure out how to deploy it with few code skills but solid Linux sysadmin skills. 

And then an entire OS would die out like an old Sun. Back to the drawing board. And so on.

So everything that an entrepreneur, software engineer, systems administrator, data analyst, financial officer, marketing & sales team, service provisioner, customer support manager, business admin, legal compliance analyst, visionary human might get up to in this thing we call tech, stands to immediately and exponentially benefit from a tool like Windsurf + MCP.

All upon the groundwork laid by UNIX, TCP/IP (which might now be possible to replace), Linux, and all Open Source code.

Maybe someone should make an AI Open Source Linux-like OPERATING SYSTEM that basically is a mesh of Windsurf or Cursor + MCP etc.

The power all of these technologies had could not be tapped by less than a few people, and usually would require way way more, all operating at different times and locations and having different agendas and perceptions.

I’ve been able to leverage this tool to rapidly improve every single technology that I ever deployed, in record time over the last 60 days. I have literally lived with this tool every day and night for that long, with my wife making the meals and taking care of the kids. Because I saw the once in a lifetime opportunity to completely revolutionized all aspects of the business through technology that was previously obscure in many ways, as we know Linux, BASH, PERL, Python, JavaScript and all else to be.

I’m like Roy Batty in Blade Runner. “Time….Enough…”. “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe”. Unfortunately soon I will be at the final scene. But at least in my lifetime I got to see the magic wand appear, and I was able to wave it upon all that I had created and to leave it functioning very well and in good hands.

If I can live longer, it would be hard not to continue to use this tool to spin up the other businesses that I had come up with, solving problem equals money these days and probably always will, but we have a chance to go even better, better than even money and science, and we should.

It was already enough to be able to walk up to an open source computer, and ask you a question about anything in the universe, and get the information needed to do a serious deep dive and then transform that into something functional just in a chat.

Having an AI IDE+Analyst+Coder for cents on the dollar is a COUP UPON all who imprisoned knowledge. Job Security Through Obscurity was a poison manta throughout technology. 

And a very common trait of humanity, come up with a complex system on one side, and then make it so completely impossible to understand that only a few lucky enabled types could leverage it, and all others would have to bow to whatever price and conditions were set by the “pro”. 

But free societies thrive on innovation, creativity, sharing of information and ideas, to get to truly transformative types of problem-solving, be an engineering, medical technology, or even just tedious but necessary things like governance.

So while this tool continues to do it well, we have to hope that Wall Street doesn’t end up interfering like they always do.

Use it while it lasts and appreciate those who created it and built it to what it is now and what it will be one day.

Let’s use it to reach escape velocity in tech + automation and get off this planet like Luke Skywalker influenced my generation in his urge to finally get off of Tatooine and into some real adventure.