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This Week in AI Coding: Composer 2.5, Claude Prices, and AI "Tricks"

May 19, 2026
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Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of May 19, 2026.

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For Premium Members

LLM Coding Leaderboard: May 15th (11 Models Tested)

I've compiled all my recent tests with 11 different LLMs into one summary table. The results are based on 3 different Laravel projects that I published on my YouTube channel over last weeks.


Codex App: 8 Features You May Not Know

11-minute video for Premium members. Codex App is really convenient to work with multiple projects at the same time. I've found quite a few "hidden tricks" that are not visible right away. Let me show you.


From my YouTube Channel

I Tested NEW Composer 2.5. Wow. (Updated LLM Benchmark)

I have benchmarked the new Cursor Composer 2.5 model with the same projects/prompts I did earlier this month, let me show the results.


AI Coding "Trick": Ask LLM Why It Made Certain Decisions

I saw a tweet by Thariq from Claude Code which appeared to be incredibly powerful to analyze the prompt result. Let me show you, in Claude Code and Codex.


I Realized Why Western LLMs Beat Chinese Models: My Example

My new benchmark shows Western/Chinese models in action, and important detail that I found repeating.


I Tried NEW Clawpatch for Codex: "Optimized" Code Review

I saw this tweet by Peter, author of Openclaw, and decided to try his Clawpatch.


AI Coding Community

ClaudeDevs on X: "Starting June 15, paid Claude plans can claim a dedicated monthly credit for programmatic usage."
x.com

The credit covers usage of:

  • Claude Agent SDK
  • claude -p
  • Claude Code GitHub Actions
  • Third-party apps built on the Agent SDK

Matt Pocock on X: "Anthropic has given us a "dedicated monthly credit". What does it ACTUALLY mean?
x.com

It slashes AFK usage limits of Claude Code by ~5-20X. Here's how it affects you.


Claude Code weekly limits are increasing 50%, now through July 13.
x.com

Live now for all Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise users.


The Claude Code Setup Behind Shopify's 23,000 Engineers (Exact Config You Can Copy)
x.com

Long-form article on X by @zodchiii


ClaudeDevs on X: "What are best practices for running Claude Code at scale?"
x.com

New blog post on what we've learned from teams running it across multi-million-line monorepos, decades-old legacy systems, and distributed microservices.


Cursor on X: "Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet."
x.com

It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.


ClaudeDevs on X: Useful tip to cut time-to-first-token on longer prompts in the API: pre-warm the prompt cache.
x.com

Send your system prompt before the user prompt. Claude writes it to the cache, but skips generating any output. When the real user request lands, it'll hit a warm cache.


OpenAI on X: "Now in preview: Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app."
x.com

Start new work, review outputs, steer execution, and approve next steps, all from the ChatGPT mobile app. Codex will keep running on your laptop, Mac mini, or devbox.


Povilas on X: "MiMo-v2.5-Pro in OpenCode is often auto-switching into Plan mode"
x.com

It suddenly auto-switched into Plan mode (in Opencode), so when I got back to computer in 10 minutes, planning to review the FINISHED task, it was like "here's the plan, should I go ahead?" For a pretty trivial task. And


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