Weekend plan: migrate authentication to OIDC. Four hours later I’m debugging if I can symlink my way to success with Claude Code, Cursor, and Junie. GPT5 is released, maybe that will just do this for me, time to re-enable my OpenAI account and generate an API key. I learn each tool’s proprietary file formats and locations, MCP configs, keyboard shortcuts, and licensing terms. Which one has reasoning? What’s the TPS? Can I make it stop being such a goddamned sycophant?

… wait was I trying to do?

The tools aren’t the problem for me (they’re great!), the churn is the problem. I don’t actually get much done at the bleeding edge. The first wave of adopters seem to be ok with this tax. The second wave, maybe 6 weeks behind, is a safe and productive place for me.

A note about product: I think second-wave adoption is ok for tooling, but being second in product development can come with significant costs, and the calculus is different, depending on market placement.