Maksim Danilchenko

TL;DR GitGuardian dropped their State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 report on March 17th. The headline number: 28.65 million new hardcoded secrets pushed to public GitHub repos in 2025. That’s a 34% year-over-year increase — the largest single-year jump they’ve ever recorded. The culprit they’re pointing at? AI coding assistants. Commits made with AI help leak secrets at 2x the baseline rate. Claude Code specifically sits at a 3.2% leak rate. ...

TL;DR Cursor is the best AI-powered IDE if you want everything in one window. Claude Code is the most capable agent — period — and dominates complex, multi-file tasks from the terminal. Windsurf is the budget pick that punches above its price. Most serious devs I know (myself included) run Cursor + Claude Code together. That combo is hard to beat. Why This Comparison Matters Right Now Eight months ago, Claude Code didn’t exist. Now it’s the #1 rated AI coding tool, with 46% of developers calling it their “most loved” in recent surveys. Cursor crossed a million users. Windsurf quietly built a loyal following with aggressive pricing. The field moved fast, and most comparison articles are already outdated. ...

TL;DR Cursor Pro is $20/month. GitHub Copilot Individual is $10/month. If those were the only numbers that mattered, this would be a short article. They’re not. Under real agentic workloads, Cursor’s sticker price can climb 5x. Copilot’s model quality ceiling is lower, but the budget stays predictable. Which one costs less depends almost entirely on how you code — and whether you’ve gone all-in on agents. The Advertised Price Is Not the Real Price Every pricing comparison you’ll find leads with $10 vs. $20. That framing made sense in 2024 when AI coding tools were autocomplete engines. In 2026 they’re running agents that open files, run tests, edit across dozens of files, and call the model hundreds of times per session. ...