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    How to set up Continue.dev with Ollama for completely offline codebase chat
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    How to set up Continue.dev with Ollama for completely offline codebase chat

    Local models still trail Claude on multi-step reasoning, but for regulated environments where code genuinely can't leave the machine, that tradeoff is well worth making.

    Editor: Paul Radford
    Jul 26, 2026
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    How to configure Model Context Protocol servers in Cursor
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    How to configure Model Context Protocol servers in Cursor

    An agent that can run SELECT * FROM orders can usually also run DELETE FROM orders unless you stop it. Here's the exact MCP config, and where to draw the read-only line.

    Editor: Paul Radford
    Jul 19, 2026
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    Quantifying AI Coding Impact: Metrics Beyond Lines of Code
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    Quantifying AI Coding Impact: Metrics Beyond Lines of Code

    A 40% jump in 'AI-authored lines' looks like a win right up until median PR review time doubles. Here's what to measure instead of the vanity metrics vendors default to.

    Editor: Paul Radford
    Jun 23, 2026
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    The Tool Handoff Pattern: Designing AI Coding Workflows Across Multiple Assistants
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    The Tool Handoff Pattern: Designing AI Coding Workflows Across Multiple Assistants

    Drafting a plan in Claude, then pasting it into Cursor to generate code, loses context at every seam. This pattern makes tool handoffs explicit instead of ad hoc copy-paste chaos.

    Editor: Paul Radford
    Jun 23, 2026
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    The Compliance Playbook: Enterprise AI Coding Policies That Actually Work
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    The Compliance Playbook: Enterprise AI Coding Policies That Actually Work

    A PDF telling developers to 'use good judgment' doesn't survive contact with a deadline or a faster unlicensed tool. Here's how to build a policy that tooling actually enforces.

    Editor: Paul Radford
    Jun 23, 2026
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    Beyond the Hype: A Realistic Framework for Choosing Your AI Coding Stack
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    Beyond the Hype: A Realistic Framework for Choosing Your AI Coding Stack

    'Just use Copilot' and 'just use Cursor' are both bad advice for most engineering teams. This framework matches autocomplete, chat, and agent tools to the workflow they actually fit.

    Editor: Paul Radford
    Jun 5, 2026
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    Terminal-First AI Coding: Building a Fast CLI Workflow with Claude Code
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    Terminal-First AI Coding: Building a Fast CLI Workflow with Claude Code

    Copy-pasting file contents into a browser tab doesn't scale past a few hundred lines of code. Here's how to build a fast, terminal-first workflow around Claude Code's shell access instead.

    Editor: Paul Radford
    Jun 5, 2026
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    Codebase Literacy at Scale: Using AI to Understand Code You've Never Seen
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    Codebase Literacy at Scale: Using AI to Understand Code You've Never Seen

    Pasting files into a chat window breaks down past roughly 5,000 lines of code. Here's how to combine AI retrieval with targeted questions to onboard onto unfamiliar code in hours, not days.

    Editor: Paul Radford
    Jun 5, 2026
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