Getting Started With AI Coding Assistants: A 2026 Beginner's Guide
A beginner's guide to AI coding assistants in 2026, covering GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and Aider with practical setup instructions and realistic expectations.
Articles Tagged "AI Coding"
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.3-Codex: The Most Capable Agentic Coding Model Yet
OpenAI releases GPT-5.3-Codex, a frontier coding model that is 25% faster, sets new records on SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.0, and was instrumental in creating itself.
GLM-5 Arrives: 744B-Parameter Open-Source Model Built for Agents
Z.ai releases GLM-5, a 744B parameter open-source Mixture-of-Experts model purpose-built for agentic tasks, scoring 77.8% on SWE-bench Verified and 56.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.0.
Cursor Review: The AI-Native IDE That Changed How We Code
A thorough review of Cursor, the VS Code fork that has become the gold standard for AI-assisted coding with Composer mode, full project understanding, and multi-file edits.
Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic's November 2025 flagship model delivers top SWE-bench scores, a new effort parameter for reasoning control, and a 66% price cut from its predecessor.
Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic's fastest and most cost-efficient model, delivering 73.3% on SWE-bench Verified and first-in-family extended thinking and computer use at $1/$5 per million tokens.
GPT-OSS 20B
OpenAI's open-weight 21B MoE reasoning model with 131K context, Apache 2.0 license, and o3-mini-level benchmark performance running in 16 GB of memory.
OpenAI o3-pro
OpenAI's maximum-compute reasoning model targets the hardest problems where o3 falls short, at $20/$80 per million tokens.
OpenAI o3
OpenAI's most advanced reasoning model, built for math, science, coding, and visual tasks, with 200K context and adaptive chain-of-thought at $2/$8 per million tokens.
OpenAI o4-mini
OpenAI o4-mini is a fast, cost-efficient reasoning model in the o-series, delivering near-o3 performance on math and coding benchmarks at roughly 10x lower cost.
GPT-4.1
OpenAI's coding-optimized API model with a 1M token context window, 54.6% SWE-bench Verified score, and $2/$8 per million token pricing.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic's first hybrid reasoning model with togglable extended thinking, a 200K context window, and state-of-the-art SWE-bench performance at $3/$15 per million tokens.
