13 articles tagged with Coding Assistants.
Mods make Claude Code a real runtime you can program. They also run with your full native permissions, no sandbox, so a bad one is a bad CI step.
OpenAI priced GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of GPT-6 Astra and called it nearly as good at agentic coding. That claim is now a routing decision, not a headline.
Same sticker price, a real-world cost drop from speed and token efficiency. Here is who should move today and who can wait a sprint.
Zed says agents made pull requests obsolete and shipped Delta to replace them. The review unit needs rethinking, but review itself, and the gates around it, stay.
A SHA pin that nobody checks is a label, not a control. Plugin4Shell showed that four major coding agents never checked.
The June to August promotion ended on September 1. Included Copilot credits fell 37% on Business and 44% on Enterprise while seat prices stayed flat. Here is the arithmetic and the controls.
Spec-driven development gives AI coding assistants an unambiguous target, so the output is reviewable, maintainable, and scales past throwaway scripts.
Practical habits that turn AI coding assistants from a slot machine into a reliable pair, from context and prompts to verification.
A practitioner roundup of the strongest GitHub Copilot alternatives in 2026, sorted by category, cost, privacy, and how they actually fit real workflows.
Every AI coding tool demos beautifully. The real differences show up in your editor, your codebase, and your bill. This is the map to what each is best at.
A concrete, balanced breakdown of Cursor and GitHub Copilot across autocomplete, agents, context, governance, and real pricing to pick the right one.
AI code review tools auto-analyze every pull request for bugs, style, and security, then post inline comments before a human ever looks.
