A collection of 20 posts
How Cursor Composer, Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI compare on setup, agents, MCP, models, and pricing in 2026.
AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .cursor/rules, SKILL.md, and Copilot instructions all do the same job differently. Here is the 2026 breakdown of format, frontmatter, monorepo handling, and which one to pick.
In a single month, xAI shipped a coding agent, a skills system, and a connectors layer. Here's how Grok Build 0.1, Grok Skills, and Platform Connectors fit together — and how the stack compares to Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot Workspaces.
Quick answer. Gemini CLI is Google’s open-source terminal AI agent. Install it with npm install -g @google/gemini-cli on Node 20+, run gemini, and sign in with your Google account in the browser. The free tier covers 60 requests per minute and 1,000 per day with Gemini 2.
Xiaomi's open-weight MiMo-V2.5 and the 1.02T-param V2.5-Pro target agentic coding. Here is an honest, sourced read on whether they match Claude.
Use the Playwright MCP server with Claude Code and Cursor to generate E2E tests against your live DOM — setup, review loop, failure modes, conventions file.
Kimi K2.6 vs DeepSeek V4 vs GLM-5.1 for coding in 2026 — sourced benchmarks, real cost-per-task, self-host and license comparison, plus a clear pick-X-if decision block.
A structured checklist for vetting developers who code with AI in 2026 — judgement, code-review-of-AI-output, and agent fluency over leetcode.
A senior-engineer walkthrough of running Cline or Continue.dev fully local against Ollama on a 24GB GPU — exact config, VRAM tables, and an honest quality reality check vs cloud Claude.
Install the Cline agent in Cursor and point it at DeepSeek V4 — real config JSON, Pro vs Flash guidance, the reasoning_content gotcha, and a cost worked example.
Grok Build, Claude Code, and Codex CLI compared on benchmarks, pricing, and workflow — including Anthropic's June 15 metered-credit change.
Install and run Grok Build, xAI's new terminal coding agent: real install command, auth, Plan Mode, models, pricing, and how it stacks up.
Anthropic's June 15, 2026 billing change moves Claude Agent SDK and claude -p onto a separate metered credit. Here's the exact pre-deadline checklist.
Cursor silently routes Composer 2 to Composer 2 Fast on every new chat. Here are the confirmed workarounds, ranked by reliability, plus how to verify which model you are actually on.
A senior-engineer field guide to the ten errors you will actually hit in Claude Code in 2026 — 529, 401, MCP -32000, Client Closed, plugin and skill failures, subagent timeouts, sandbox denials — plus how to read the /doctor output line by line.
Cursor crawling on a 500k+ LOC repo? Seven concrete fixes, per-stack .cursorignore recipes, the actual memory math for M-series Macs, and when to give up and reach for a different tool.
Wire DeepSeek V4 Pro or V4 Flash into Cursor as a custom model, handle the Composer reasoning_content caveat, and migrate off the deepseek-chat alias before the July 24, 2026 deadline.
A curated list of the 15 MCP servers worth installing for Claude Code and Cursor in 2026 — what each one does, the install command, when it shines, and how to stay under Cursor's 40-tool ceiling.
Cursor 3 ships an agent-first IDE and Composer 2 — Cursor's own coding model on Kimi K2.5 — beats Opus 4.6 on Terminal-Bench at a fraction of the cost. Here is the walkthrough and the reality check.
How to set per-task token, cost, step, and time budgets when running Claude Opus 4.7 as an agentic coder — plus team-level caps that keep monthly burn predictable.