Developer Tools
4 posts on this topic — practical guidance from Shawn Livermore on fractional CTO, AI, and technology leadership.
The Context File Your AI Coding Tool Needs Before the First Prompt
Starter templates set the structure of your codebase. Context files tell AI tools how to behave within it. The second matters as much as the first — and most teams skip it.
Read post →Your AI Coding Setup Is Only as Good as What You Start With
Code footprints and starter templates determine what AI-assisted development actually produces. Here is what they are, why they matter more as AI takes on more of the coding, and how to build a library worth using.
Read post →Developer AI Fluency vs Developer AI Tool Usage. Why They Are Not the Same
92% of US developers use AI tools daily. Only 29% trust the output. The gap is fluency, not adoption: the discipline separating who ships from who pastes.
Read post →SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60 Billion. Your Developer Toolchain Just Changed.
SpaceX acquired Anysphere, maker of Cursor, for $60 billion on June 16, 2026, the largest VC startup buyout on record. Cursor sits in two-thirds of the Fortune 500.
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