Monday's Weekly Notes: May 6, 2025

Weekly Notes are here to inspire others experimenting right now, give me a framework for reflection, and open up discussion around these workflows.

Highlights

• Tried GitHub’s new MCP integration in Cursor — and it’s changing how I think about where planning lives.
• Published a new vision doc on human-AI collaboration that’s now guiding multiple workstreams.
• Returned to Quilt with fresh energy, especially around memory structures and modular refactoring.
• Starting to think through how to automate parts of my refactor-first workflow.

In-Progress / Work Notes

• GitHub MCP in Cursor

  • Finally got hands-on with GitHub’s MCP surface inside Cursor. It’s quickly becoming my favorite in-between space, structured, persistent, but not coupled directly to the code.
  • I’m experimenting with using it as a rule-based command center for dev planning. Still loose, but the potential is huge.

• Vision Work: AI Collaboration

  • Published “The Future of Working with AI”, which maps out a collaboration model for LLMs that centers memory, modularity, and intent.
  • The ideas from that post are now shaping my planning systems, agent design, and how I think about artifact generation.

• Quilt

  • Spent time this week reworking mental models around memory graphs and just-in-time assembly. GraphRAG helped me imagine what swatch chaining might look like dynamically.
  • Began outlining possible automation points in the refactor-first workflow — I’m bored of asking cursor to do the same things over and over.

• Blog + Publishing

  • “Refactor-First, Feature-Last” is live and seems to be resonating. It’s a reflection on losing my rhythm in AI-assisted dev — and regaining it through slow, intentional refactor work.
  • Missed last week’s notes, but this one feels like a solid re-entry.

Reflection

• New planning surfaces like MCP are helping me shift out of “code or nothing” thinking. It’s giving ideas a place to live while they’re still forming.
• There’s real clarity in watching the vision doc loop back into practical work. It doesn’t feel theoretical anymore.
• Started going to the gym and having a great time with it!

💬 Open Threads

• Mostly thinking on how I can use AI to create an automated refactor-first sort of workflow. Cursor really isn’t hitting the way I’d like, and there’s definitely something more to build here.