Agentic coding

AI coding agents in 2026: the landscape, priced Four categories, a dozen products, one price table. Pick the category first; the product matters less than people think. 9 min Agentic coding: what it is, how it works, and what to use The definition, the loop, why it prices differently from autocomplete, the autonomy dial every vendor ships, and the tools that run it. 13 min Context engineering: the skill that replaced prompt engineering What is actually in the window, what it costs when you get it wrong, eight techniques that work, and the numbers that prove they did. 7 min AI coding agent security: what actually protects you Why instructions are not controls, how prompt injection reaches a coding agent, the four containment layers that hold, and a configuration to copy. 10 min Reviewing AI-generated code: what to look for The failure modes specific to generated code, a seven-step pass with the exact commands, and where machine review helps. 8 min Spec-driven development with coding agents Why the spec is the expensive part now, the three things a good one contains, a template to paste, and how plan mode formalises it. 8 min AI code generator: the four kinds, and when one is enough Four shapes, one test that separates a generator from an agent, and the prices as of August 2026. 9 min Codeium, Windsurf, Devin Desktop: what happened and what to use Two rebrands, one acquisition, and a redirect chain. What your extension became and what you pay now. 6 min Devin AI: what it actually does, and what it costs in 2026 Cognition's delegated software engineer: what it is, the plans, the quota system that replaced ACUs, and when it is the wrong shape. 8 min Claude agent: one name, six different things Six products share this name. What each one is, how they relate, and which one your question is about. 8 min Claude Code desktop vs terminal vs web: every surface compared What runs where, what each surface can actually do, and the exact commands that move a session between them. 10 min Claude deleted my database: the incidents, and what actually stops it What really happened in the two famous incidents, why agents do this, and the controls that hold. 9 min Grok CLI: install, commands, models, and how it works xAI calls the product Grok Build; the binary you type is grok. Install it, authenticate it, pick a model and effort level, and know which flags are real. 11 min How to use Grok CLI with Claude Code Grok Build makes a good short-lived shell worker beside Claude Code. Use it for scouting, triage, structured extraction, and independent first drafts. 7 min How Grok resumes Claude Code sessions Grok Build resumes recent Claude Code work from its session UI, or imports a Claude transcript into a native Grok session. The handoff is real. Its fidelity is undocumented. 8 min Claude Code agent teams: setup, tasks, and limits Agent teams from the experimental flag through shared tasks, teammate messaging, tmux panes, and the collision risk nobody warns you about. 8 min 12 Claude Code tips that change the quality of the work Twelve upgrades ordered by leverage, each with the payoff, the exact command or file, and the failure mode it prevents. 17 min Coding agents 101: what they are, how they work, and which kind to use A neutral map of the category: four product types, the loop beneath them, the permission boundary, and a sane way to run several at once. 14 min Autonomous AI software engineer: what autonomous actually means The delegation model, the old ACU and current quota economics, the review burden, the cases that work, and the workbench alternative. 15 min Using Cursor with Claude Code: the two-tool workflow Cursor for the code under your hands, Claude Code for delegated work. The useful patterns, and the rules that stop both editing the same tree. 10 min Open-source coding agents: what you can actually own The open-source agents worth evaluating, what each license covers, where the code runs, and which parts remain a paid service. 13 min Best autonomous coding agents in 2026 Six autonomous coding approaches ranked by accepted work, containment, context, reviewability, portability, and operating fit. 15 min What is Factory AI? Droids, Missions, and the platform A technical map of Droids, the CLI and desktop surfaces, persistent computers, Missions, governance, pricing, and the human review boundary. 11 min Factory Droid: the agent from specification to pull request The product behind the name: agent loop, model routing, Specification Mode, Droid CLI, computers, custom Droids, Missions, and PR delivery. 11 min Factory AI funding, valuation, founders, and round history A source-first company record: four announced rounds, valuation changes, Matan Grinberg and Eno Reyes, the disclosed investors, and what remains private. 12 min Factory AI for startups: when the enterprise stack fits Factory can be an excellent small-team agent and an oversized platform purchase. The deciding factors are task shape, controls, and who will operate it. 11 min What is Augment Code? The product, Context Engine, and fit A factual map of the Context Engine, Auggie, IDE extensions, Slack access, Intent, Cosmos, and the tradeoffs behind the enterprise focus. 11 min Augment Code Context Engine: retrieval, scale, and Intent The retrieval system under Auggie, MCP, review, Intent, and Cosmos: indexing, ranking, branch freshness, quantized search, security, and limits. 11 min Augment Code company: funding, valuation, revenue, and product The factual company record: who founded Augment, its $252 million funding, $977 million post-money valuation, undisclosed revenue, and product shifts. 11 min Augment Code for large codebases: an honest test Augment’s strongest claim examined as an engineering system: semantic retrieval, repository scale, permissions, evaluation, and the workbench alternative. 11 min What is Qodo? The code quality platform explained The CodiumAI history, the current review-first platform, the retired product names, and the boundary between Qodo and PR-Agent. 12 min Qodo code review: a practical workflow that keeps humans in control A production workflow for local and pull request review, rule design, noise control, measurement, and a human-owned merge gate. 12 min Codium to Qodo: the full rebrand and product map A clean chronology from CodiumAI through Qodo, plus the second product-name consolidation and the current separation from PR-Agent. 11 min AI code review tools in 2026: six serious choices Six review products scored by boundary, context, rules, noise, fixes, hosting, cost, and workflow. No universal winner, with a clear shortlist by team shape. 10 min Qodo Gen explained: tests, IDE agents, and the 2026 pivot Qodo Gen began as an AI test generator and became an IDE agent. It is now Qodo IDE, with code generation retiring and review workflows taking priority. 10 min T3 Code review: the open-source agent control plane, tested The MIT control plane from T3 Tools: five agent providers, a worktree per thread, one-click PRs, and a version number that still starts with 0.0. 8 min Vibe coding tools: the honest list, sorted by what they actually do Four lanes, real prices, and the part the demos skip: what happens after the thing mostly works. 7 min Remote coding: the four patterns, and which one survives a dropped connection Four ways to code from somewhere other than your machine, ranked by what happens when the network, the laptop, or the app goes away. 6 min What is an agentic development environment? The ADE, defined properly The category term, defined by its five properties rather than its marketing: orchestration, isolation, review gates, continuity, and instrumentation. 7 min What is T3 Code? The open-source agent control plane A technical map of threads, providers, worktrees, the server and client split, T3 Connect, and the parts of the product that are deliberately absent. 10 min What is T3 Connect? One command remote control, explained One command, a hosted relay, three devices, and a candid warning from its own author about what happens if the bill grows. 9 min What is Conductor? The Mac app for parallel coding agents A technical map of workspaces, harnesses, worktrees, the cloud tier, and the isolation Conductor explicitly does not provide. 9 min Is SuperGrok worth it? The honest math for each tier Four verdicts rather than one, because the tiers are four different products and only one of them is priced like a chatbot. 15 min Always-on AI agents: what they are, and the three shapes they ship in The category got its vocabulary from marketing pages. This is the same category described by its mechanics, with an honest map of who each shape suits. 16 min What is a background agent? The per-task cloud loop, explained Every vendor renamed the feature in the last year, which is why the search results contradict each other. Here is the current state of all three, dated. 13 min Do AI agents need their own computer? The managed-VM pattern, examined The strongest case for the vendor VM, made properly, followed by the three costs that do not appear on the pricing page. 15 min