Fresh insights on AI-powered development
I've found a great article by G-J van Rooyen where he suggests two prompts for the case when you inherit an old codebase and need to quickly understand the flaws and the backstory of main code decisions.
Claude Code can give you a hint on what you can do better next time.
I've taken a skill from Claude Code Templates and adapted it to PHP/Laravel projects.
What a week(end) in AI coding, with Anthropic battle against OpenAI for the best new frontier model. But that's not the only topic, I also decided to re-test the open-source models, and there are also many tips and stories from Claude Code users.
A 15-minute video for Premium members of AI Coding Daily. I used OpenRouter and Cline in VS Code and gave the same tasks to all three models. One of them was a clear winner.
My 17-minute video for premium members of AI Coding Daily. GPT-5.3-Codex is MUCH better than GPT-5.2. But can it fully replace Claude Code with Opus? I tried to create a realistic project end-to-end with Codex, and... let me show you what happened, in the video below.
While the world is going crazy about Openclaw, the "regular" coding tools silently release small improvements, a lot of them in this newsletter issue. Enjoy!
An extremely underrated step to include in your AI coding workflow: "make an interactive html site with a visual explanation of X".
My 16-minute video for Premium subscribers. After Boris from Claude Code said that Opus may be cheaper than Sonnet, I decided to test it out myself, on 4 different prompts, with a lot of conclusions.
Useful AI coding links to read/watch for this week of January 28, 2026.
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