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A collection of 56 posts

AI Coding Agents

How to Sandbox AI Coding Agents: Practical 2026 Guide

A practical guide to sandboxing and scoping AI coding agents. Verified threat model, what Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Grok Build give you natively, container and worktree containment patterns, MCP risk, a ten-minute checklist, and an honest account of what sandboxing does not fix.

· 16 min read
MCP

How to Build an MCP Server in Python (2026 Guide)

A practical, end-to-end guide to building an MCP server in Python: scaffold with the official SDK, expose tools, resources, and prompts, run over stdio and Streamable HTTP, debug with the Inspector, and register in Claude Code and Cursor.

· 14 min read
Claude Code

How to Stop Claude Code From Over-Engineering Your Code

Claude Code adds abstractions, fallbacks and files nobody asked for. Here are the practical controls - CLAUDE.md rules, plan mode, scoped prompts, effort settings and review gates - that get you surgical changes instead.

· 17 min read
OpenCode

OpenCode vs Claude Code: Which Terminal Agent in 2026?

OpenCode just passed Claude Code on GitHub stars. We compare the open-source, model-agnostic terminal agent against Anthropic's polished CLI on setup, models, MCP, pricing, and who should pick which.

· 13 min read
Claude Code

How to Use Claude Code with OpenRouter (2026)

Run Claude Code against OpenRouter instead of Anthropic billing: the three-env-var setup, which open models work as backends, live pricing, and the tool-use and prompt-caching catches the hype threads skip.

· 14 min read
Claude Code

How to Stretch Your Claude Code Usage Limits in 2026

A practical 2026 guide to how Claude Code usage limits actually work and the concrete habits that get more done inside them: right model per task, context hygiene, a tight CLAUDE.md, and when an API key beats a subscription.

· 8 min read
Claude Code

How to Write a CLAUDE.md File: The 2026 Playbook

CLAUDE.md is Claude Code's per-project memory file, auto-loaded into context at the start of every session. Here is how to write one that actually helps: anatomy, an annotated example, common mistakes, and how it relates to AGENTS.md and Cursor rules.

· 9 min read
Claude

Claude Fable 5: Release Date, Features, Pricing (2026)

Anthropic's first publicly available Mythos-class model, released June 9, 2026. Third-party benchmarks, pricing, context window, availability, the safety reroute to Opus 4.8, and how it compares to GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.5.

· 11 min read
Gemini

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate: A Developer's Guide

Google's Gemini 3.5 Live Translate is a new audio model for continuous speech-to-speech translation in 70+ languages. Here's how it works, where it ships, and how to build with it.

· 7 min read
Speech to Text

faster-whisper vs whisper.cpp vs OpenAI Whisper (2026)

A practical 2026 comparison of faster-whisper, whisper.cpp, and OpenAI's reference Whisper — speed, VRAM, accuracy, and which local speech-to-text runtime to pick for your hardware.

· 7 min read
AI Coding Agents

AGENTS.md vs CLAUDE.md vs Cursor Rules (2026 Update)

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.

· 22 min read
AI Coding Agents

Grok Build: xAI's AI Coding Agent CLI Explained (2026)

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.

· 16 min read