My Agentic Coding Setup, July 2026

Since breaking free of my corporate shackles, I’ve gotten to experiment with a variety of approaches to AI-assisted development. After months of tinkering, I’m quite happy with my current setup, and want to capture and share it. Things are changing very fast, and I have no illusions that this will be a timeless nugget of wisdom. But talking to some friends and scrolling through X posts, it does seem that I might have some techniques in play that are not widespread. At least, this will be a fond time capsule to look back on as we proceed further into the singularity. And the end state is quite nice: I’ve ended up with the ability to have frontier models fix production bugs from my phone, on a train. My requirements After a couple of months with raw Claude Code, it became clear what I was missing: The agents need to be running on Linux. Agentic coding is essentially impossible on Windows, as the agents are heavily trained on Bash and other Unix tools. Although some pretend to have…