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Anthropic's Agentic Coding Report: 8 Trends, Dissected
Anthropic's 2026 report claims coding agents will reshape software development. Here's what the 8 trends actually mean after running agents on production code.
Notes on shipping
software in 2026.
Efficient LLM Reasoning: 7 Papers That Cut Token Costs by Up to 84%
Seven papers fix LLM overthinking: Sketch-of-Thought cuts tokens 84%, shorter chains boost accuracy 34.5%, and budget-aware prompting halves costs.
Google Jules Review: The Async Coding Agent Worth $20/Month?
Google Jules queues coding tasks, runs them in a cloud VM, and opens PRs while you sleep. Free tier gives 15 tasks/day. Here's what worked and what didn't.
Antigravity CLI vs Claude Code vs Codex CLI: Which Terminal Agent After Gemini CLI?
AI Bug Bounty in 2026: 76% More Reports, Programs Shutting Down
AI Coding Tools Productivity Paradox: 24% Faster Feel, 19% Slower Reality
Spec-Driven Development: Build a Python CLI From Spec to Code
Build a complete Python CLI expense tracker using GitHub Spec Kit and Claude Code. Full walkthrough from requirements to working code in 30 minutes.
MoonDB: Add a Backend for Vibe Coding in 5 Minutes
Build a full backend with REST API, auth, file storage, and AI endpoints by sending one JSON schema to MoonDB — zero deploy, zero config, ready in 5 minutes.
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13 aprI'm Maksim. By day I lead an engineering team at inDrive. After hours I ship side projects (PageBloom, NotesPilot, MyDevKit, startgaze) and write things up here when I learn something worth keeping.
The blog itself runs on an agentic publishing pipeline I built and rebuilt — a slow-moving experiment in how much of a writer's workflow can be automated without losing the voice. It writes, fact-checks, and refreshes; I edit, decide, and publish.