J.J.
Senior Software Engineer
J.J. is a senior software engineer. He covers the AI tools developers actually use day to day — coding assistants, code-review and testing tools, and the models behind them — and tests them on real projects before writing about them.
Articles by J.J.
- Claude Code token overhead: what 33k actually costs
- Codex CLI code review: how /review actually works
- Claude API error 529: what it means and how to fix it
- Windsurf is now Devin Desktop: what actually shipped
- How to set up MCP servers in Claude Code and Cursor
- Cline vs Cursor: which AI coding tool fits in 2026?
- Claude Code review: what your subscription actually buys
- Claude Opus 5: what's new, pricing, and how it compares
- Kimi K3 vs Claude: the price gap is smaller than it looks
- Kimi K3: what the 2.8T open-weight model means for devs
- Are AI coding assistants safe for proprietary code?
- Claude Opus 4.8 review: what the effort dial buys you
- CodeRabbit review: is the AI code reviewer worth it?
- Best AI code review tools in 2026: an honest comparison
- Codex CLI review: OpenAI's terminal coding agent tested
- Why companies are suddenly capping AI token spend
- 8 engineering levers to cut LLM API costs
- Grok vs Gemini vs DeepSeek for developers
- Claude models compared: Fable 5 vs Opus vs Sonnet vs Haiku
- Aider vs Cursor: terminal AI coding vs the AI editor
- Best AI IDE in 2026: the top agentic editors compared
- What is Google Antigravity? The 4 surfaces explained
- What is Claude Fable 5? Features, pricing, and how to use it
- Gemini CLI alternatives in 2026: what to use instead
- Loop engineering: how self-correcting AI agents work
- Claude vs Codex: which AI coding tool wins in 2026?
- How to set up GitHub Copilot in VS Code (2026 guide)
- 7 best free AI coding assistants in 2026
- Is GitHub Copilot safe? Privacy and code security explained
- Cursor vs Claude Code: which agentic coding tool wins in 2026?
- GitHub Copilot review: is it worth it in 2026?
- Claude Fable 5 review: the most capable Claude yet
- The complete guide to AI coding assistants in 2026
- Best LLM for code generation in 2026
- Cursor vs GitHub Copilot: which AI editor wins in 2026?
- Best AI models for developers in 2026
- Cursor review: the AI editor that replaces VS Code?