setting up your ai developer experience toolkit

my fav combo is cursor + claude code (cli + desktop) - worth it? well, it works for me at scale!

my workflow

i switch between claude desktop (for deeper scanning, planning) and the terminal when i want to go full nerd mode, or keep auto-pilot mode in the desktop app.

project-based claude plugins help me load skills and really go fast!

on a large team where everyone can code and push to production, i’ve had to dive into ai dx and stay the “guardian” of the code. a pre-push/commit hook (e.g. bash scripts/sync-docs/sync-docs.sh) that syncs ai skills and style guides across all tools keeps things sane.

all this is just for sanity - iykyk - lol!

the dx setup

all coding conventions live in docs/*.md as the single source of truth. a sync script distributes them to every ai tool automatically.

what qualifies as key skills for the entire frontend setup for instance;

  • design style guide (ui & ux) - we want to keep the entire product identity even when we heavily use ai now
  • coding standards - general language/framework style guide but the internal style guide precedes the standard one
  • testing guide (when, how, what to test)
  • key edge cases
  • git workflow