17 posts
A practical look at the protocol boundary of Codex App Server, the product and engineering scenarios it fits, and how it compares with Claude Code and Cursor in automation, cloud agents, and custom integrations.
A sanitized field note on using Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, gh, and lark-cli for real engineering tasks: what work is worth delegating to AI, what boundaries must stay firm, and how to make AI-assisted work verifiable and shippable.
Cursor Composer 2 can trigger image generation in real workflows, and Cursor's changelog points to Google Nano Banana Pro. This article records the workflow, cost intuition, and a same-aspect comparison with Codex-generated images.
A practical guide to combining Codex and Cursor: product boundaries, Codex IDE, Codex CLI, the Codex extension inside Cursor, Skills, Cursor Rules, session context, and a workable coexistence workflow.
Cursor's TypeScript SDK exposes the agent capability behind IDE, CLI, and Cloud Agents as a programmable interface. This article explains runtimes, hooks, MCP, examples, use cases, and a CI failure repair workflow.
A personal look at the reported SpaceX and Anysphere Cursor agreement, how Cursor differs from Claude Code and Codex, and what model ownership, capital, billing, and product direction may mean for developers.
A practical record of building zipress from scratch: product requirements, Next.js plus FastAPI architecture, real Cursor prompts, user flow diagrams, uniform and mixed layout exports, deployment notes, and open-source repository.
A practical note on using Cursor, GitHub CLI, Lark CLI, tests, MCP browser checks, stats scripts, and small skills to automate everyday development workflow steps.
A practical walkthrough of building log-based observability with Grafana, Loki, LogQL, request-rate charts, latency panels, status-code breakdowns, p95 estimates, and Feishu-style webhook alerts.
A workflow-oriented look at using Cursor for long-form web fiction: repository structure, single source of truth, rules, daily writing prompts, consistency checks, context-window tradeoffs, and model-cost choices.
A practical note for computer science students and junior developers who use AI for assignments or daily work but worry that they cannot handle real projects without deeper coding fundamentals.
A practical look at Cursor's position in 2026: it is not dead, but its main battlefield has changed. The useful question is not replacement, but whether Claude Code should become part of your workflow.
Instead of turning tool discussion into a succession story, this article separates what Cursor and Claude Code are each good at: IDE context, browser interaction, Auto mode, terminal workflows, and underestimated Cursor capabilities.
A reflection on using Cursor while working on www.zicode.com: writing posts, developing a WeChat draft sync script, reviewing agent history, polishing documentation, and extracting an open-source tool.
A development retrospective on the official QVeris Cursor/VS Code extension: browser OAuth callback, SecretStorage, MCP configuration, workspace rule injection, host differences, and the last mile of making tools actually usable.
A practical early experiment with VS Code, Cline, and DeepSeek V3: configuration, cost impression, a Gomoku coding test, what worked, and where the AI-generated code failed.
An early hands-on note on Cursor as a VS Code-based AI editor, using a small C++ Gomoku program to test code understanding, alpha-beta AI logic, object-oriented refactoring, and project-level assistance.