Vibe-Coding

In January 2026, Anthropic made a quiet change. They blocked Claude Pro and Max subscribers from using Claude through third-party tools. No announcement. No warning. Tools like OpenCode just stopped working overnight. The backlash was immediate. David Heinemeier Hansson — the creator of Ruby on Rails — posted on X: “Confirmation that Anthropic is intentionally blocking OpenCode, and any other 3P harness, in a paranoid attempt to force devs into Claude Code. Terrible policy for a company built on training models on our code, our writing, our everything.” ...

In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy posted a simple tweet. He described how he codes now — just talking to AI, accepting whatever it produces, and barely reading the code. He called it “vibe coding.” That tweet changed how millions of developers think about writing software. Let me explain what it actually means, where it came from, and how to do it well. What is Vibe Coding? Vibe coding means you describe what you want in plain English, and AI writes the code for you. You don’t write the code yourself. You don’t even look at the code most of the time. You just tell the AI what to build, check if it works, and keep going. ...

Three tools. Millions of developers using them. And everyone has a different opinion. I have used all three — Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot — for real projects. Not toy demos. Real apps with real deadlines. Here is what I found. No hype. No affiliate bias. Just what actually works. Quick Answer (If You Are in a Hurry) Use Case Best Tool Day-to-day coding, fast edits Cursor Big refactors, complex debugging Claude Code Enterprise teams, JetBrains users GitHub Copilot Cheapest option GitHub Copilot ($10/month) Best AI model quality Claude Code (Opus 4.6) Best overall editor experience Cursor If you want details — keep reading. ...