The Definitive Guide to AI Developer Tools in 2026
Every AI developer tool I've tested, ranked. IDEs, CLI tools, models, hosting, and deployment - the complete landscape with honest recommendations.
ReadVibe Coding: Real Talk About the Trend
What actually works, what's just hype, and when to use vibe coding versus traditional development.
12 Mar 2026Building with AI Agents: My 2026 Workflow
How AI agents fit into a real development workflow - from planning to deployment.
10 Mar 2026AI Experiments: What I Learned Building with Agents
Hands-on experiments with the latest AI models, tools, and workflows.
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AI Models Compared: March 2026 Rankings
Head-to-head comparison of the top AI models for coding this month.
22 Feb 2026My Exact Claude Code Configuration
The exact config, prompts, and workflows I use with Claude Code daily.
10 Feb 2026Experiment: Can AI Build a Full App Autonomously?
I gave an AI agent a spec and walked away. Here's what happened.
25 Jan 2026Claude Opus 4 Deep Review: Best Model for Code?
A thorough review of Claude Opus 4 for real-world coding tasks.
8 Jan 2026Best AI Prompts for Developers in 2026
The prompts that actually make a difference in my daily workflow.
5 Jan 2026How I Became a 10x Engineer with AI
How AI tools are redefining what it means to be a highly productive engineer.
2025
- AI-First Development: Why I Stopped Writing Boilerplate 15 Aug 2025
- The 100x Developer Is a Myth (But 10x Is Real Now) 8 Aug 2025
- Lessons from Running AI Agents in Production 15 Jul 2025
- Windsurf vs Cursor in 2025: Which AI IDE Wins? 25 Jun 2025
- My Prompt Library: 30 Prompts I Use Weekly 5 Jun 2025
- Using AI to Refactor Large Codebases 15 May 2025
- My Full AI Development Stack in 2025 28 Apr 2025
- Devin vs Claude Code: AI Coding Agents Compared 10 Apr 2025
- MCP Servers: Connecting AI to Everything 22 Mar 2025
- Claude Opus 4 vs GPT-5: The Big Comparison 5 Mar 2025
- Building AI Agents: A Practical Guide 20 Feb 2025
- Agentic Coding Explained: Why It's Different 15 Feb 2025
- Best Coding Prompts of 2025 28 Jan 2025
- My Claude Code Setup: Terminal AI That Actually Works 10 Jan 2025
2024
- 2024: The Year AI Got Practical 20 Dec 2024
- The Best AI Tools for Developers, November 2024 10 Nov 2024
- AI Burnout Is Real and I Hit It 15 Oct 2024
- AI-Powered Development: My Complete Workflow 30 Sep 2024
- OpenAI o1: Testing the Reasoning Model 28 Sep 2024
- Practical Uses for Multimodal AI I Found 8 Sep 2024
- Using AI to Write Better Tests 20 Aug 2024
- Perplexity Replaced Google for My Research 2 Aug 2024
- The Best System Prompts I've Written 15 Jul 2024
- Where AI Code Generation Still Fails 28 Jun 2024
- Claude Opus vs Sonnet: When to Use Which 8 Jun 2024
- Building RAG from Scratch (No LangChain) 20 May 2024
- Running Local LLMs with Ollama: My Guide 2 May 2024
- Claude vs GPT for Coding: An Honest Comparison 18 Apr 2024
- My Complete AI Development Workflow in 2024 15 Apr 2024
- Grok Review: Is xAI's Model Any Good? 25 Mar 2024
- Cursor IDE: The First AI-Native Editor 8 Mar 2024
- Gemini vs GPT-4: I Ran 30 Real Tests 18 Feb 2024
- My Best Coding Prompts in 2024 30 Jan 2024
- I Tried Claude and I'm Not Going Back to ChatGPT 12 Jan 2024
2023
- 2023: The Year AI Ate Software Development 22 Dec 2023
- Prompt Engineering for Developers 5 Nov 2023
- Is Fine-Tuning Worth It? My Experiment 5 Nov 2023
- AI Tools I Actually Pay For in 2023 15 Oct 2023
- Vector Databases Explained Simply 28 Sep 2023
- Automating Code Reviews with AI 10 Sep 2023
- Midjourney v5 vs DALL-E 3: My Comparison 22 Aug 2023
- LLM Hallucinations: Real Examples from My Projects 2 Aug 2023
- My AI Pair Programming Workflow 15 Jul 2023
- LangChain First Impressions: Powerful but Messy 25 Jun 2023
- Running Stable Diffusion Locally: My Setup Guide 5 Jun 2023
- GPT-4 vs GPT-3.5 for Coding: Is It Worth the Cost? 18 May 2023
- The Truth About AI-Generated Code Quality 28 Apr 2023
- Prompt Tricks That Actually Work 10 Apr 2023
- Building My First App with the OpenAI API 22 Mar 2023
- How ChatGPT Changed My Development Workflow 12 Mar 2023
- AI Coding Assistants Compared: Copilot vs ChatGPT vs Tabnine 5 Mar 2023
- My First Midjourney Experiments 15 Feb 2023
- I Replaced Stack Overflow with ChatGPT for a Week 28 Jan 2023
- ChatGPT Just Changed Everything 8 Jan 2023
2022
- 2022 Year in Review: NFTs, Security, and Finding Focus 28 Dec 2022
- My Tech Predictions for 2023 12 Dec 2022
- How I Recovered from Developer Burnout 18 Nov 2022
- Building a CI/CD Pipeline from Scratch 2 Nov 2022
- PostgreSQL Tips I Learned the Hard Way 15 Oct 2022
- REST vs GraphQL: I Changed My Mind 28 Sep 2022
- GitHub Copilot: A Developer's Honest Review 28 Sep 2022
- My Terminal Setup in 2022 5 Sep 2022
- GitHub Copilot: My First Month 12 Aug 2022
- My Side Project Graveyard: 6 Projects I Abandoned 20 Jul 2022
- Docker Compose Changed My Local Dev Setup 3 Jun 2022
- TypeScript Was Worth the Pain 15 May 2022
- OWASP Top 10 in Practice: Vulnerabilities I've Actually Seen 22 Apr 2022
- Security Basics Every Developer Should Know 8 Mar 2022
- Smart Contracts Are Fascinating But Web3 Has a Problem 14 Feb 2022
- Developer Tools That Changed My Workflow in 2022 10 Feb 2022
- I Minted an NFT Collection and Here's What Actually Happened 18 Jan 2022
2021
- API Design Best Practices 22 Aug 2021
- Automate Repetitive Tasks with Shell Scripts 15 Mar 2021
2020
- Startup Playbook 14 Aug 2020
- Reading 101 14 Aug 2020
- Code Reviews 14 Aug 2020
- HTTP Status Codes 31 Jul 2020
- SOLID, DRY, KISS, YAGNI 17 Jul 2020
- Notes: Obviously Awesome 4 Jul 2020
- Adding Dark Mode 4 Jul 2020
- Personal OKRs 27 Jun 2020
- Git Tags: Explained 18 Jun 2020
- Notes: Refactoring UI 9 Jun 2020
- Making Decisions the Right Way 7 Jun 2020
- Notes: Think and Grow Rich 28 May 2020
- Building Acrons 25 May 2020
- Boost Productivity with Chrome Extensions 24 Apr 2020
- Marshal Structs in Golang 31 Mar 2020
- Transactions on Postgres with Golang 19 Mar 2020
- Improve Your Productivity with VS Code 13 Mar 2020
- Sessions using Golang and Redis 25 Feb 2020