A collection of 36 posts
Install and run Grok Build, xAI's new terminal coding agent: real install command, auth, Plan Mode, models, pricing, and how it stacks up.
Claude Code billing, Oct 2026: Pro and Team Standard now default to Opus 5.5 ($4/$20, cache reads $0.20 = 5% of input). Max gets $100 or $200/mo in API credits and Team up to $500/mo pooled; the credits don't cover interactive Claude Code. Plus Haiku 5.5 subagents.
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.
73% of AI coding-tool users use them daily and Claude Code (66%) leads Copilot (59%) among coding agents, yet only 20% use AI to deploy or operate production systems. For hiring, that means screening for verification, review-bot triage, parallel agents and token-spend judgment.
October 2026 re-rank of AI coding tools: Claude Code (Opus 5.5, Code Review GA), Codex (GPT-6.1 Sol), Copilot Pro $10 / Pro+ $39 / Max $100, SpaceX-owned Cursor from $8, Devin Desktop, Kiro, Amp, Antigravity CLI, Zed and Grok Build.