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Things I’m working on, exploring, or paying attention to.
April 2, 2026By Roland CadavosOpenClaw
OpenClaw: Local Agents Meet the Real Developer Toolchain (2026)
OpenClaw pitches a different shape than chat-in-the-cloud: agents that run close to your machine, wire into Git and issue trackers, and treat skills and plugins as first-class—if you accept the ops cost of something that can actually execute.
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March 27, 2026By Roland CadavosAnthropic
Anthropic: Claude, APIs, and the Safety-Shaped Product (2026)
Anthropic’s bet is that capable models plus disciplined API design and a visible stance on safety can win enterprise trust—while developers still care most about latency, context, and whether the tool fits their stack.
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February 24, 2026By Roland CadavosAntigravity
Google Antigravity: An Agent-First Take on the IDE
Antigravity frames development around autonomous and semi-autonomous agents—planning, executing, and iterating inside an environment built for Gemini—rather than bolting chat onto a classic editor as an afterthought.
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February 6, 2026By Roland CadavosClaude Code
Claude Code: Agents in the Terminal, Not the Spotlight
Anthropic’s Claude Code brings agentic loops to the repo you are already in: read files, run commands, propose patches—often without leaving the shell. The skill is steering scope and trusting verification over vibe.
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January 18, 2026By Roland CadavosCursor
Cursor: When the Editor Knows Your Repo
Cursor turned ‘AI in the IDE’ from a sidebar into a workflow: codebase-aware chat, Composer edits, and project rules that keep output aligned with how your team actually writes code.
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