Hey hey, Useful AI coding links to read/watch for this week of February 18, 2026.
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[PREMIUM] I Tested 6 AI Coding LLMs on 7 Laravel Projects (Evals)
A 17-minute video for Premium members. My biggest AI models comparison ever, so far. I've prepared the Evals (tests) for many different use-cases that I will use now and in the future "showdowns".
Skill/Prompt: Technical Debt Manager for PHP/Laravel in Claude Code
I've taken a skill from Claude Code Templates and adapted it to PHP/Laravel projects.
Luca Dellanna: Claude Code Self-improvement injection with Hook
Claude Code can give you a hint on what you can do better next time.
From my YouTube Channel
I Tested New GLM-5 vs Opus and Sonnet. Wow.
GLM-5 was released, and I hurried to try it out on a bigger task, comparing code quality.
I Tried New Minimax M2.5 (and realized smth about ALL frontier LLMs)
A new Minimax M2.5 model was released, and I tested it out.
Two BIG Problems with Skills in Claude Code (My Way of Using Them)
I saw one useful skill recommended online, but realized I cannot use it "as is". So here's my workflow.
Two AI Prompts to Quickly Understand Old Codebase
You inherited someone else's project and don't know where to start? These prompts may help you.
AI Coding Community
Introducing Claude Code to Figma.
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A tweet from official Figma team.
Peter Steinberger (OpenClaw author): "I'm joining OpenAI to bring agents to everyone."
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OpenClaw is becoming a foundation: open, independent, and just getting started.
My agent stole my (api) keys. : r/ClaudeAI
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My Claude has no access to any .env files on my machine. Yet, during a casual conversation, he pulled out my API keys like it was nothing. When I...
My Ghostty setup for Claude Code with SAND Keybindings
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Article on X by Daniel San.
New in Context7: ctx7 skills suggest
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Scans package.json, requirements.txt. Detects your stack. Recommends matching skills from the registry.
Code Factory: How to setup your repo so your agent can auto write and review 100% of your code
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Article on X by Ryan Carson.
The Highest Point of Leverage in Claude Code
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Video by Ray Amjad.
Cursor: Long-running agents are now available for Ultra, Teams, and Enterprise plans.
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With our new harness, agents can complete much larger tasks.
Anthropic: We’ve raised $30B in funding at a $380B post-money valuation.
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This investment will help us deepen our research, continue to innovate in products, and ensure we have the resources to power our infrastructure expansion as we make Claude available everywhere our customers are.
I just published a skill for using TDD with Claude Code.
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Before: dozens of shit tests, coupled to implementation. After: only the tests required, validating real behavior.
OpenAI: Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
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Our ultra-fast model purpose built for real-time coding. We’re rolling it out as a research preview for ChatGPT Pro users in the Codex app, Codex CLI, and IDE extension.
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