A practical guide for developers navigating Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Codex, and beyond. You switch from Cursor to Claude Code. Or from Copilot to Windsurf. The interface is different. The shortcuts are different. The config file has a new name. And for a moment, it feels like you’re starting from scratch. You’re not. Under […]
Read More →The rise of AI coding assistants—Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot—has shifted the main challenge from writing code to communicating intent. When engineers give an LLM a vague feature description or unstructured prompt, the model often drifts. It invents edge cases, guesses API endpoints, or generates lots of valid code that solves the wrong problem. To keep […]
Read More →In 1986, Fred Brooks published No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering in IEEE Computer. He made a careful, almost reluctant prediction: There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. Forty years later — almost exactly — […]
Read More →The ecosystem of “AI skills” — modular instruction packs that extend an LLM with task-specific know-how, whether they’re called Skills, plugins, agents, MCP servers, system-prompt templates, or tool bundles — has exploded fast enough that “which one should I use?” has become the dominant question. The answer is rarely obvious from a README, and almost […]
Read More →“Most people are using MCP wrong,” said MCP’s co-creator, David Soria Parra. I agree. Because I made the same mistake. Engineers would do the obvious thing: wrap each REST endpoint as an MCP tool and shove them into a custom registry. The result? Zero value over just calling the APIs directly. Worse than zero, honestly. […]
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