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Step-by-step guides and how-tos for getting AI tools working in your actual development workflow — setup, configuration, and practical tips.

Claude Code token overhead: what 33k actually costs

Claude Code token overhead: what 33k actually costs

Claude Code sends about 30,000 tokens before it reads your prompt. We measured it, priced it with caching on, and checked the 50k claim about MCP servers.

Codex CLI code review: how /review actually works

Codex CLI code review: how /review actually works

What the /review command in OpenAI's Codex CLI reviews, the rubric it grades your diff against, what it can't see, and how to run it in CI.

Claude API error 529: what it means and how to fix it

Claude API error 529: what it means and how to fix it

A 529 overloaded_error means Anthropic's API is saturated, not that you did something wrong. How it differs from 429, why your SDK already retries it.

Windsurf is now Devin Desktop: what actually shipped

Windsurf is now Devin Desktop: what actually shipped

Cognition renamed Windsurf to Devin Desktop and replaced Cascade with Devin Local. A fresh install can still land you on Cascade — here's why, and how to switch.

How to set up MCP servers in Claude Code and Cursor

How to set up MCP servers in Claude Code and Cursor

The commands, the config files, and the three server states you'll actually see — plus what the two tools do differently when you add too many servers.

Claude Opus 5: what's new, pricing, and how it compares

Claude Opus 5: what's new, pricing, and how it compares

Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's new coding model, out July 24, 2026 at the same price as Opus 4.8. What changed, and whether it's worth switching.

Kimi K3: what the 2.8T open-weight model means for devs

Kimi K3: what the 2.8T open-weight model means for devs

Moonshot's Kimi K3 hits frontier benchmarks at $3/$15 per million tokens. What to know about pricing, token burn, and the license attached to the open weights.

Are AI coding assistants safe for proprietary code?

Are AI coding assistants safe for proprietary code?

What Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex actually do with your code — training defaults, retention, the Alibaba ban, and how to use them without leaking IP.

Why companies are suddenly capping AI token spend

Why companies are suddenly capping AI token spend

Uber burned its 2026 AI budget in four months. One company spent $500M on Claude in a month. Token caps are coming to your team — here's what changed.

8 engineering levers to cut LLM API costs

8 engineering levers to cut LLM API costs

Prompt caching, model routing, context trimming, output caps, batching, and measuring real tokens — the levers that actually move an LLM bill.

What is Google Antigravity? The 4 surfaces explained

What is Google Antigravity? The 4 surfaces explained

Google Antigravity ships as four surfaces — Antigravity 2.0, IDE, CLI, and SDK. Here's what each one is, how they differ, and when to use which.

What is Claude Fable 5? Features, pricing, and how to use it

What is Claude Fable 5? Features, pricing, and how to use it

Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's most capable widely released model. Here's what it does, what it costs, and the API behavior developers need to know.

Loop engineering: how self-correcting AI agents work

Loop engineering: how self-correcting AI agents work

Loop engineering is building AI systems that act, check their own work, and retry until a goal is met. The anatomy of a loop, a template, and when to skip it.

How to set up GitHub Copilot in VS Code (2026 guide)

How to set up GitHub Copilot in VS Code (2026 guide)

Install and configure GitHub Copilot in VS Code: the free vs. paid tiers, the settings worth changing, and how to get useful completions from day one.

Is GitHub Copilot safe? Privacy and code security explained

Is GitHub Copilot safe? Privacy and code security explained

What GitHub Copilot does with your code, what it doesn't store, enterprise vs individual privacy settings, and how it compares to alternatives on security.

The complete guide to AI coding assistants in 2026

The complete guide to AI coding assistants in 2026

A practical guide to every major AI coding assistant in 2026 — Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Devin, and more — with pricing and how to pick.