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This Week in AI Coding: Claude Code Tasks List, Context, New Skills and Tricks

January 28, 2026
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Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of January 28, 2026.

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Claude Code: 5 Lessons From Laravel Project I Built in 3 Hours

A 22-minute video. I show how I create a real project from Upwork (evaluated at $25-50/hr rate) with Claude Code. From job description to planning, to prompting, to context management, and 5 takeaways of what I would do differently next time.


7 Tips to Save Context Space in Claude Code

A 15-minute video. While working on a recent project, I asked Claude Code to show what tools use context the most. Here's what I've learned for the future projects.


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Two AI Coding Mistakes I'm Making (maybe you, too?)

I noticed the pattern of when Claude Code performs worse or finishes with incomplete results. Let me explain.


NEW in Claude Code: Tasks List - Not Just a Visual Change

Claude Code is changing from to-do lists to task lists. And this may be more important than it seems on the surface.


I Tried Claude Code Command/Agent To Review "Feature Completeness"

I recently saw these useful slash commands and agents on Reddit and decided to try them out.


What MCPs/Skills Were Actually Used in Last Prompt? (Slash Command)

I've created a Claude Code Slash command for myself, to check whether certain skills or MCPs were actually used during the execution of the prompt.


How to Debug External MCP Problems (My Real Story)

I noticed a warning in Claude Code about token usage of some MCP, and decided to dig deeper. In this video, I will show you two ways to debug such issues.


AI Coding Community

I reduced Claude Code input tokens by 97% using local semantic search (Benchmark vs Grep) : r/ClaudeAI
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Hi r/ClaudeAI, Since the release of Claude Code, Iโ€™ve been using it extensively. However, I quickly noticed a major bottleneck when working...


Easiest way i have found claude to write high quality code . Tell him we work at a hospital every other prompt . (NOT A JOKE) : r/ClaudeAI
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It Sounds Stupid, i do not even work at a hospital . it is by far the easiest way to get claude to write really high quality code. This is a...


Cursor can now use multiple browsers at once with subagents.
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Tweet by Cursor team.


Introducing Qwen3-Max-Thinking
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Our most capable reasoning model yet. Trained with massive scale and advanced RL, it delivers strong performance across reasoning, knowledge, tool use, and agent capabilities.


**Andrej Karpathy: A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks. **
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Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups in


Hooks can now run in the background without blocking Claude Code's execution. Just add async: true to your hook config.
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Great for logging, notifications, or any side-effect that shouldn't slow things down.


We just released ๐š™๐š˜๐šœ๐š๐š๐š›๐šŽ๐šœ-๐š‹๐šŽ๐šœ๐š-๐š™๐š›๐šŠ๐šŒ๐š๐š’๐šŒ๐šŽ๐šœ
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Inspired by Vercel's ๐š›๐šŽ๐šŠ๐šŒ๐š-๐š‹๐šŽ๐šœ๐š-๐š™๐š›๐šŠ๐šŒ๐š๐š’๐šŒ๐šŽ๐šœ, these are the Agent Skills that we use on the supabase platform - including performance, security, & schema design.


Ollama launch is a new command in Ollama 0.15 to run Claude Code, Codex, Droid and OpenCode with Ollama!
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GLM 4.7 Flash is now optimized to use much less memory for longer context lengths (64k+).


How I Built a Visual Feedback Loop for Claude Code
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I love Claude Code. It's become essential to how I work. But I kept hitting the same wall: trying to describe exactly what I wanted in a flowchart or UI mockup using nothing but text.


We've Merged Slash Commands into Skills in Claude Code
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You do not need to do anything to migrate to this and it should not disrupt any of your existing workflows.


AFK Ralph in a bash loop is SO much better than the Claude Code plugin.
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But the DX is a bit nasty. Running it AFK means no streaming to the terminal by default. This script fixes it.


How to Run Claude Code Locally (100% Free & Fully Private)
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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to run Claude Code entirely on your own machine using local open-source models. This setup lets the AI read files, edit code, and run commands without sending any data to the cloud, no API costs, no tracking, and complete privacy.


Just shipped two cool updates for Claude Code in the Desktop app. Plan mode and notifications.
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  1. Plan mode is now available on Desktop. Have Claude map out its approach before making any changes

Cursor now uses subagents to complete parts of a task in parallel.
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Subagents lead to faster overall execution and better context usage. They also let agents work on longer-running tasks.

Also new: Cursor can generate images, ask clarifying questions, and more.


After building with Claude for a year, these are the 50 tips I keep coming back to.
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Claude Code tips, hidden features, prompting hacks, and more.

Rapid-fire style - the easiest article you'll read this week.


Our fix to remove flickering is rolled out again to everyone on Claude Code.
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Why did we roll it back? If Claude is so good, why were there bugs to begin with? Why was it so complex? ๐Ÿงต


The Claude Code VSCode extension is the most slept on way of using CC.
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it's just as powerful as the CLI but with beautiful diffs and interacts with the rest of your editor

it's also available in Cursor, Windsurf & Antigravity


Tips from Cursor Team on how to use Cursor
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Start with a plan (Shift+Tab Plan Mode). Let Cursor search on its own, don't over-tag context. (and 6 more tips)


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