I gave the same 12-step refactor to Cursor, Claude Code, and Cline and watched what each one missed. On a real codebase, the difference wasn’t style; it was how many edits survived the first review and how much cleanup was still left after the agent said it was done. 1. The part the press release … Read more
Stop using ChatGPT for code review if you want fewer polished hallucinations and more useful edits. Claude usually gives you the cleaner first pass, while ChatGPT often feels more like a fast-talking generalist that needs tighter steering. 1. Where Claude stops sounding like marketing 2. Where ChatGPT still earns its keep 3. Writing work: drafts, … Read more
I gave the same 12-step refactor to Cursor, Claude Code, and Cline across 3 sessions, and the weird part was what each one missed. One model would nail the edits but forget the tests; another would write the plan and stall on execution. That gap is basically the whole story behind what is agentic ai. … Read more
On 14 March I gave the same brief to Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5, and Cursor 0.50: pull a bug from a docs repo, summarize it, and draft a fix note. The one using an MCP server got to the right files in 18 seconds; the one without it burned 3 retries and hallucinated a path … Read more
I wasted three weeks on Cursor before realising the bottleneck wasn’t the editor. In April 2025 I switched the heavy lifting to Claude Sonnet 4.6 for spec work, kept Cursor 0.50 for code edits, and used GPT-5 only for cross-checking weird edge cases. That swap saved me about 18 hours over 12 sessions, mostly because … Read more
I ran the same 18-image brief through Midjourney v7, Midjourney v6.1, and a control set in SDXL over three sessions in April 2026. On my 50-prompt test pile, v7 finished first-pass usable on 34 prompts, versus 26 for v6.1, and it cut my average reroll count from 2.3 to 1.4. That’s the short version. The … Read more
I used to think Perplexity was just a polished search wrapper. Two months and 50 prompts later, that was only half wrong, which is annoying in the specific way these tools always are. I tested Perplexity AI across 3 sessions in March and April 2026, alongside Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5, and Cursor 0.50. The short … Read more
It’s 2am. The agent loop just hallucinated my schema for the third time tonight, and the diff looked confident right up until it tried to rename a table that didn’t exist. That’s the annoying part of github copilot vs cursor: both can feel brilliant for 20 minutes, then one tiny context miss turns into a … Read more
On 14 March I gave the same brief to Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5: write a product launch angle for a boring B2B API, then rewrite it for a newsletter audience. Claude gave me a cleaner first draft in 42 seconds. GPT-5 took 58 seconds and produced the sharper hook, but it needed one extra … Read more
On 14 March I gave the same brief to Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5, then ran the draft through a Chrome-only Prompt API prototype I’d been poking at for 90 minutes. The result was blunt: the Chrome path was faster to demo, but it locked the workflow to one browser in a way I wouldn’t … Read more