Ray Smets

As the summer is nearly behind us, here is a 🧵 with my favorite dev tools and AI resources that I used from these categories: * Agent Frameworks * MCP * Agent Identity * AI assistance * Full Stack App Generators * Text Editors * LLM Prompt Management * Events What did I miss?

I have to get this off my chest and on record: It is so cringe seeing the verb "code" being used everywhere recently. It shows a lack of maturity in our current wave of tooling and new found collective know how. The pros know it ought to be referred to as "software development"

Signup so we can have my agent chat with your agent more seamlessly (over communications mediums we humans already use). Very cool.

If your team isn’t sharing Skills or Sub agents yet you are truly missing out.

@davidlsneider @claudeai Very cool

One click inside @claudeai and you get a news-aware trading engine running 24/7 across DeFi, Polymarket, and Hyperliquid. No babysitting required.

when the whole team is on claude code

@nikos1 @GanatraSoham Haha awesome! I cloned my mother in-law in 2024 with ElizaOS

who needs friends when you can CLONE THEIR SOUL. clawdcloner lets you choose dms you have with anyone and it will make a soul md file which you can drop in openclaw to make it behave just like them. it will take their writing style, quirks, values, ethical boundaries, etc and mimic them perfectly. just drop the generated file in your openclaw to chat with a clone of your friend. who are you going to clone?

Semantic devops is next stage of the AI development lifecycle shake up. I wrote a blog post on the state of the art and where it is going. raysmets.com/blog/yolo-cli-…

@davidlsneider @openclaw @HeyVincentAI @telegram @merit_systems @Clawnch_Bot @base @moonwell Very cool! How’s agent’s agent performing PnL wise?

@Neerajpathak18 Same independent conclusions. Good luck, us.

BTC Update: SL hit, but price reclaimed support → fresh long taken! 🔥 Entry: $87,150 SL: $86,500 T1: $88,700 T2: $90,300 Support holding strong… momentum building. 🚀📈 #BTC #Bitcoin #CryptoTrading #PriceAction #Scalping #DayTrading

BTC Update: New short position activated. 📉🔥 Price rejected perfectly from resistance and broke the rising channel. Entry: $84,365 SL: $84,870 T1: $82,794 T2: $81,255 Let’s see how far this momentum goes. Charts > Emotions. 💯 #BTC #BTCUSDT #CryptoTrading #PriceAction #Scalp #DayTrading

Intrigued by the IaC painpoints formae is claiming to address. github.com/platform-engin… infoq.com/news/2025/10/i…

LET’S GOOOOOOO….poker world is lucky to have Rayo. Glad he got this ring

This is what you need to know about x402 1) x402 = payments for HTTP requests 2) Fast + cheap micropayments 3) Internet is already paid → ads, freemium, lead gen. 4) AI nukes these models: no ad clicks, spam floods, free-tier abuse 5) Old monetization = dead 6) Paying per API request sounds awful UX 7) But x402 automates payments 8) Users don’t notice 9) Every business needs x402 strategy or risk dying 10) Internet will migrate → paid by default, invisible to users

@mcpaytech Well, you still need a wallet...

x402 will be the first piece of crypto tech that will attract the masses and the reason is that you don’t need crypto to be a user

@kevinlu625 Let me at it @budapp! I have tried nearly all the others (new ones nearly every day!)

@mcpaytech Pretty awesome! Looking forward to trying it.

Are you buidling with Vercel `mcp-handler`? We have a wrapper for you! 🥁🥁 withPayment 🥁🥁 (shipping soon to an npm near you)

@mcpaytech Totally! Finally seeing a landslide of "focussing on intent" artciles the last couple months trying to address this. With this in mind, I have to ask, why does your MCP Build mcp server have so many tools? #tools" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mcpay.tech/servers/23e2ab… Should it only be fraction to assist the LLM?

When building an MCP, imagine the end user is an LLM. If you’re stuck writing detailed tool instructions in the prompt, that’s a sign you should abstract or build a tool that encapsulates that behavior.

Has anyone been hands-on with x402 yet? vercel.com/blog/introduci…

@ThePrimeagen 😄but: ---- alias greset='gitreset' gitreset() { defaultBranch=$(git_main_branch) currentBranch=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD) if [[ $currentBranch != $defaultBranch ]]; then git checkout "$defaultBranch" && git pull && git branch -D "$currentBranch" fi } ---- 🔥

the only git commands a sr engineer needs git add . git commit -m 'wip' git push --force staff level tip alias all-done="git add . && git commit -m 'wip' && git push --force"

My mental model of the dev tools-community on X right now.

@aye_aye_kaplan @cursor_ai Whoa, Twitter bot response!? 😀 I'm sure it was a ton of effort to make and now operate, but I do believe that an in-editor prompt could probably do a similarly good job. Smart business play to offer in the git workflow, though - another part of the dev ecosystem to build into.

@rayjsmets @cursor_ai Bugbot isn't just a one-shot prompt🤦‍♂️ it can't be easily replicated! Would love to have you try it and compare to other similar solutions to see for yourself :)

My favorite latest @cursor_ai feature? It's not BugBot (there are lot of solutions that already do this), but rather /commands. It is so nice being able to `/create-pr` or `/author-tests`.