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Gemini charges thinking tokens at the output rate, which is why a reasoning-heavy coding session on Gemini 3.1 Pro can burn cash fast. Since the free Code Assist and CLI tiers ended on June 18, 2026, that spend is now
TypeScript 7.0 is generally available and 8-12x faster, but typescript-eslint, ts-jest and Vue, Svelte and Astro template checks cannot run on it until 7.1. Here is a phased plan to get the speed now without breaking
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 matches near-Fable-5 intelligence at 26% lower cost per task. A guide to the coding-agent benchmarks, the token economics, and when Opus 5 should be your default.
On July 22, 2026 Cursor launched Router, a request-level classifier that sends each coding request to the best model. In Cursor's own tests it cut costs 30-60% versus Opus 4.8. Here are the numbers and the trade-offs.
GitHub made the Copilot SDK generally available on June 2, 2026, across six languages. This guide covers what it does, how to call it, how it compares to building your own agent loop, and what it costs to run.
MCP Apps shipped on 26 January 2026 as the first official MCP extension. Here is how the ui:// resource, the _meta.ui.resourceUri link, the sandbox CSP and the stateless 2026-07-28 core fit together.
The GitHub Copilot app went from technical preview to every Copilot plan on 7 July 2026, including Free and Education. The mechanism that makes parallel agents work is the git worktree.
Cursor Automations, live since March 2026, run cloud agents on a timer or on events from Slack, GitHub, Linear and PagerDuty. This guide covers setup, six useful workflows, costs on Pro and Ultra, and guardrails.
Cursor split Teams usage into two pools and added a $120 Premium seat for renewals from 1 July 2026. Premium buys 5x the included usage at 3x the cost, which makes its included usage 40% cheaper per unit. Here is
Meta shipped Muse Spark 1.1 on July 9, 2026, a 1M-token agentic model priced at a quarter of rival rates. It leads on tool use but trails on raw coding. What that means for how dev teams route work.
Bun 1.3 installs packages 25 times faster than npm and boots in milliseconds, but Node.js wins on ecosystem depth and support. A practical 2026 comparison, with real benchmarks and a clear verdict on when to use each.
Node.js now strips TypeScript types and runs the JavaScript underneath, so ts-node and a build step are optional. What works, what breaks, and why you still need tsc for type checking in 2026.
