AI¶

Large language model (LLM) providers¶

• Anthropic Claude
• Google Gemini
• Mistral Le Chat
• OpenAI ChatGPT

Recent articles about AI¶

• Producthunt: GPT-5: Not the AGI Messiah, but still pretty impressive
• Verge: GPT-5 failed the hype test
• Quanta: The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil.
• Harward Business Review: The Hidden Penalty of Using AI at Work
• AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster
• Producthunt: If anyone can vibe code, how will companies decide who to hire?

Coding with AI Agents¶

Coding assistants¶

• Anthropic Claude Code
• GitHub Copilot
• Google Gemini Code Assist

Command line interfaces¶

• Claude Code (paid)
• Codex CLI (paid)
• Gemini CLI (free & paid)
• Official documentation
• Cheat sheet (by P. Schmidt)
• Goose
• Mistral Vibe (free & paid)
• OpenCode (free, any LLM provider)
• Warp (entire terminal, free & paid)

Example prompts:

Explain the architecture of this codebase

Give me a summary of all of the changes that went in yesterday

AI in the editor¶

• Cursor - a dedicated editor with AI agents (fork of VS Code)
• Windsurf - a dedicated editor with AI agents
• VS Code has many extensions (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, ...)
• Get started with GitHub Copilot in VS Code
• GitHub Copilot: Getting Started with Chat (video)

Education versions¶

• GitHub Education
• Google Gemini: Free Pro Plan for Students
• Cursor (search for education/student versions)