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Claude Code: A minimal setup for everyday engineering work

Claude Code is Anthropic's command-line tool for software engineering tasks. This guide shows you how to install it, connect it to a project, and run your first few tasks — without configuring anything you don't need. If you want a practical AI coding setup that stays out of your way, this is the starting point. The whole setup takes under ten minutes and works on any project you already have running locally. No special scaffolding required.

5 min

Claude Code vs. Cursor: which one ships faster for solo builders

Claude Code and Cursor are both AI coding tools aimed at developers, but they solve the problem differently. Claude Code runs in the terminal and works on your whole project. Cursor runs inside a fork of VS Code and focuses on the file you have open. For solo builders who move fast across multiple files, the differences matter. This review compares both tools on the tasks that come up most in a solo workflow: refactoring, writing tests, debugging, and generating boilerplate. No benchmarks — just real task results.

6 min

A week with Perplexity Pro: what it replaces and what it doesn't

Perplexity Pro is a subscription tier of the Perplexity AI search tool that adds access to more powerful models, higher daily query limits, and file upload for document analysis. After one week of using it as a primary research tool, here is an honest account of where it saves real time and where it falls short. This is not a feature list — it is a use-case breakdown for builders who are deciding whether the subscription is worth adding to their existing AI stack.

5 min

What the latest Claude 4 update changes for prompt engineers

Claude 4 is Anthropic's fourth-generation model family, which includes Opus 4, Sonnet 4, and Haiku 4. The latest updates to this family change how the models handle long prompts, system instructions, and tool use — all of which affect how prompt engineers write and structure their work. This post covers the specific changes that matter in practice: what still works, what works better, and what needs to be rewritten for prompts designed around earlier Claude versions.

6 min