AI Coding Assistants
What AI Coding Tools Actually Cost on a Real Project
GitHub Copilot, Cursor and Claude Code pricing as of today, sourced from each vendor's own page, plus the review-time cost that never appears on…
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AI Coding Assistants
AI Coding Assistants Compared for PHP and WordPress Work
General-purpose IDE agents versus WordPress-specific snippet tools for PHP and WordPress development, and how to pick between them for a real task.
AI Coding Assistants
Constraining What an AI Agent Can Touch in Your Repo
How to keep an AI coding agent away from config files, secrets and lockfiles, what an ignore file actually guarantees, and what it does…
AI Coding Assistants
Writing AI Coding Prompts That Produce Reviewable Code
How to phrase a coding request so the AI's output is a small, checkable diff instead of an impressive one you cannot verify in…
AI Coding Assistants
Giving an AI Assistant the Right Amount of Codebase Context
Why an AI assistant keeps ignoring your conventions, what to actually feed it as context, and the drift problem that shows up months later.
AI Coding Assistants
Working With an AI Coding Assistant: Trust Nothing
A practitioner's guide to using GitHub Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code daily without getting burned. What to verify, what to ignore, what actually fails.