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I replaced my VS Code workflow with Google Antigravity, and cut my coding time in half
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I spent a month coding without VS Code, and I don't want to go back: Turns out, I wasn’t missing much
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I run a local coding model on my 8GB GPU for real UI work, and I'm not going back to Claude Design
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Claude Code returns blank thinking blocks, but reasoning still costs you: Developers report model thinking blocks being returned empty or truncated
theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/14/claude-code-returns-blank-thinking-blocks-but-reasoning-still-costs-you/5287557

Microsoft unveils MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning and MAI-Code-1 coding models: At this year's Build developer conference, a major expansion of an in-house model ...
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Google Antigravity supports VS Code extensions, but I found myself needing fewer of them
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How to integrate VS Code with Ollama for local AI assistance: Run a private, local AI coding assistant inside VS Code without sending a single query to the cloud ...
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These 6 Vim plugins make it compete with VS Code: With the right plugins, Vim can give VS Code a run for its money
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I teamed Deep Research with Codex to solve a major bug - but they couldn't do it without me
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Kate is the IDE you needed to replace VS Code: It's simple and has all the necessary features
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I went hands-on with ChatGPT Codex and the vibe was not good - here's what happened
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Hacker claims to have exposed Amazon's 'AI security theater' after exploiting its coding assistant with a simple factory reset prompt
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5 ways I use a self-hosted LLM to help me be more organized and more productive: When used right, a local LLM is one of the best tools anyone can have in their ...
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How I used ChatGPT to analyze, debug, and rewrite a broken plugin from scratch - in an hour
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I tried using VS Code instead of Obsidian for taking notes, and it's surprisingly decent
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