The Model Is Not the Development Environment
I spent 12 million input tokens on a small monorepo change. The problem was not the model. It was the development environment around it.
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I Tried Too Many Coding Agents. Here Is What I Would Actually Pay For
A subjective comparison of Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, and the models inside them, based on ordinary application work rather than benchmarks.
Learning in an AI-Driven World is a Paradox
AI has fundamentally changed the feedback loop between learning and building. I build faster than ever, yet some days I feel like I know less than ever. Here is what that paradox actually means for developers.
Not Everyone Needs Frontier LLMs for Coding
Frontier models are brilliant, but many everyday coding tasks run just fine on smaller models — if your workflow is clear. Stop buying the hype and choose tools for your actual use case.