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This Week in AI Coding: Codex App, Claude Code New Features and Tips/Prompts

February 4, 2026
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Here are useful AI Coding links to read/watch for this week of February 4, 2026.

This week, I was at Laracon India conference. People were asking me “what AI tools I should use” and I could recommend something only for this week (Claude Code with Opus 4.5). No one knows what happens next week. That’s how fast things change. So, hopefully, my weekly newsletter help you keep up with the news.

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For Premium Members

Claude Code: My Favorite 10 Tips & Tricks

I've been using Claude Code for a while, so here are my personal workflow improvements that I use the most, as of February 2026.


Opus vs Sonnet: I Tested Cost, Speed, Code Quality, and More

My 16-minute video. 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.


My YouTube Channel

NEW Claude Code Playgrounds: Interactive Pages to Help Your Plans

New feature of Claude Code that I will demonstrate with examples.


We Need to Review AI-Written Code Differently Now

A quick reflection on Andrej Karpathy's tweet about current state of LLMs for coding.


2 Tips to Save Context Space in Claude Code

Free excerpt from my longer 15-minute Premium video.


AI Coding Community

Introducing the Codex app—a powerful command center for building with agents.
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Now available on macOS. I'm planning to review it on YouTube in upcoming days.


Claude Code tips that have made my life easier.
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(Add these to your CLAUDE .md file) 1. "Before writing any code, describe your approach and wait for approval. Always...


You can now connect to Claude in Chrome using the VS Code extension.
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Use it to debug frontend apps, collect data or automate your browser.

Install the extension and type @ browser to get started.


10 Claude Code Prompts You Need to Steal
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I've written these prompts in markdown format; all you have to do is copy/paste.


I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. I wanted to quickly share a few tips for using Claude Code, sourced directly from the Claude Code team.
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The way the team uses Claude is different than how I use it.


Web search is now enabled by default for the Codex CLI and IDE Extension.
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By default it will use a web search cache but you can toggle live results or if you use --yolo live results are enabled by default.


Supermemory plugin to Claude Code
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Problem: Claude writes great code. Then I close the session, and it forgets everything.


Just landed multi-repo support for Claude Code web
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Tweet by Boris from Claude Code.


Claude Code can recommend plugins based on your workflow.
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Tweet by Ado from Anthropic.


You can now customize your Claude Code keybindings!
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/keybindings to get started


In the next version of Claude Code, you can customize spinner verbs for yourself and your team.
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Yes, customize those "Flickering..." and other words.


For very large codebases, Cursor's indexing process is now several orders of magnitude faster.
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For very large codebases, Cursor's indexing process is now several orders of magnitude faster.


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