Introduction I've been seeing more developers say that Codex has become easier to use, more cost-effective, or simply a better fit for some workflows than it used to be. This is not a "Claude Code is bad, everyone should switch" article. I still use Claude Code at work, and if cost were less of a factor in my personal setup, I would probably be using both more actively. If you're already comfort
Hello everyone! I wanted to write this article to share my experience with agentic coding without Claude and Codex, I started dabbling with agentic coding a few months ago when Claude had decent limits on the 20$ plan, You prompt the agent: I want e2e tests, and it will study the codebase and implement them. When I've started hitting limits on Claude code, and this is not a secret that they reduc
TL;DR: Mistral Medium 3.5 is a 128B open-weight model released April 29, 2026, with a 256K context window, configurable reasoning, and native multimodal input. It scores 77.6% on SWE-Bench Verified — close but not ahead of Claude Sonnet 4.6 — and ships alongside Vibe, a cloud coding agent that submits pull requests directly to GitHub without you babysitting it. API pricing is $1.50 per million inp