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Coding agents like Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini Pro 3 can now generate decent-looking and functional UIs, but the designs they produce are often bland and uninspiring, and often resort to the same overdone patterns like purple gradients. This can be improve

MCP is pissing a lot of people off, which may seem surprising for a software protocol. Earlier this month, Anthropic published a blog post on how to make MCP 98.7% more token efficient with code execution. You'd think this would be a good thing, but for l

Like any great developer tool, Claude Code is highly customizable, most notably through custom slash commands and custom output styles. But it might not be obvious when you should reach for these customization features.This post will focus on custom slash

Most benchmarks tell us how AI coding models perform in carefully constructed scenarios. But they don't tell us what developers actually think when they use these tools every day. That gap is why I built a Reddit sentiment analysis dashboard to see how re

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend OpenAI Dev Day in San Francisco. Since this is such a big event, almost everyone writing about AI covered it, so I don't want to re-hash the big announcements too much, but instead offer my personal impressions.L

Two weeks ago, Anthropic looked like it was stumbling. Developers were bailing on Claude Code, OpenAI had just shipped GPT-5 Codex, and Sonnet itself was rumored to be degrading. But in the roller-coaster world of AI coding agents, scripts flip fast and A

In the last edition of this newsletter, I discussed how many developers were switching from Claude Code to Codex, in part because of tighter usage limits on Claude Plans. Even before the new weekly caps, the 5-hour usage limits are a common point of frust

Claude Code has gone from developer darling to facing a mass cancellation campaign in the blink of an eye. The top post on Anthropic's subreddit last week was Claude Is Dead with over 841 upvotes, over double the amount that Anthropic's official response

The GitHub integration stands out as one of Claude Code's most powerful features. There are many exciting aspects of it, but what I'm most excited about is the ability to have dozens of agents running in isolated environments and adding features to your c