Uses

Primary editor. Pinned settings sync via GitHub Gist.

Inline suggestions on. Autocomplete off in prose.

Agentic terminal for repo-wide edits and refactors.

Primary shell on Windows.

POSIX scripts and pipelines that PowerShell cannot express cleanly.

Prompt with git status, node/python version, exit code.

Default for every full-stack web project. Pages Router unless the client asks for App Router.

Strict mode enabled by default.

On the server, in Docker containers.

When the backend is complex enough to earn dependency injection.

Every project. Handwritten CSS only for hard cases.

Interaction and page transitions on marketing sites.

Default DB. Runs on the same droplet as the app for most projects.

Type-safe ORM. Migrations in production behind a schema-drift guard.

Sessions, rate limits, ephemeral job queues.

Embeddings when RAG grounds an AI feature on a live catalog.

Primary reasoning model for AI CRMs.

Router / classifier model. 60-80% cost cut vs Sonnet-only.

Voice-note transcription in WhatsApp bots.

Occasional — when the pipeline needs it and only then.

Local inference for data-residency clients.

Default droplet host. USD 6-24 covers most small SaaS.

Marketing sites and portfolios. This site runs on it.

One compose file per project. app + db + reverse proxy.

Automatic HTTPS, sane defaults. Preferred over nginx for new projects.

CI/CD, Lighthouse audits, sitemap pings.

For iOS Xcode builds on GitHub Actions.

Google Drive backups from every production droplet.

E2E on every serious project. 263-test sweep on the Servifibras CRM.

Unit test runner for TypeScript projects.

Error tracking. Free tier is generous.

Real User Monitoring for Core Web Vitals.

Checkout, Billing, Connect, Split, MSI for Mexico.

LATAM default. Signed HMAC webhooks are the boring part that matters.

Official — via a Business Solution Provider. Never Baileys, never Evolution.

Outbound voice calls when a call-center escalation is part of the product.

EVM contract development and testing.

Solana program framework of choice.

ERC-20 / ERC-721 base contracts.

Off-chain data on-chain — reserve verification, oracle updates.

Development. Real Chromium for headless screenshots too.

Personal notes and client-facing briefs.

When a client needs help configuring their own machine.

Universal DB client. Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB in one app.

Dev host — 128 GB RAM, dual Xeon E5-2689.

Remote desktop to the dev host from anywhere.

Continuity during Ukraine power cuts. No missed sprints.