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Cursor is shrinking while the terminal eats the IDE
Cursor shrinking is the 18 to 12 percent work-usage drop while CLIs rose. Keep VS Code or JetBrains. Put the agent in a CLI you already run this quarter.
Claude Code is the default coding agent at work
Claude Code is the default coding agent at work in the JetBrains 2026 survey. 39% use it, 31% live in it. Check conversion, then keep a second agent ready.
OpenCode vs Claude Code on the Same Tasks: Same Passes, Different Paths
OpenCode vs Claude Code on four graded tasks. Both hit 4/4. Paths diverged on tools, wall time, and reported tokens. Product lane, not a same-model lab.
Fat Instruction Files Hurt Frontier Coding Agents
A fat instruction file costs more and can follow less. Thin rules passed every check. Fat files dropped to 80% and burned 21x the prompt tokens on the same task.
Eleven vendors back ai-catalog.json manifests under their own domains
Agentic resource discovery launched in June with eleven vendor backers. A scan of 44 domains six weeks later found a working catalog on exactly one of them.
Independent verification of Bun memory usage claims
Bun's Rust rewrite claims lower memory usage. A firsthand build-loop test on the exact version Bun benchmarked checks whether those numbers actually hold up.
Claude Code vs Codex Limits, Measured in the Same Unit
Claude Code vs Codex limits, measured across 28 days and 56.8 billion tokens. Why token counts cannot predict quota burn, and what to read on each side instead.
Open Source Has a Distribution Problem, Not a Building Problem
Open source distribution decides whether your project gets found. A one-week census of 106 launches, and the title that scored 154 in one sub and 1 in another.
Token-Compression Skills Do Not Survive Measurement
Token compression skills report savings the invoice never shows. Cache reads carry 87 percent of an agent bill, and cutting tokens can push the cost up.