MasterMindMandan - Field Report

Claude Code developers reporting rapid token consumption after holiday bonus ended. Anthropic clarified this is return to normal limits, not a reduction. Monitor your usage closely.

VS Code forks (Cursor, Windsurf, Antigravity, Trae) recommended non-existent extensions in OpenVSX. Cursor and Google patched; Windsurf never responded to disclosure. Audit your extensions.

Jensen Huang called it "incredible"; a senior Google engineer said it recreated a year's worth of work in an hour. Non-coders using it for taxes, theater tickets, and tomato plant monitoring. Boris Cherny: 259 PRs in 30 days.

Anthropic moving from rule lists to teaching WHY Claude should behave certain ways. Now acknowledges uncertainty about whether Claude might have "some kind of consciousness or moral status."

Google previewed Antigravity on Jan 8 - a free AI IDE built on VS Code with parallel agent orchestration. Achieves 76.2% on SWE-bench. Pro pricing expected around $20/mo later this year.

Multi-file editing and terminal command execution for 2M users. Handles GitHub issues end-to-end, creates PRs, responds to feedback. 40% more context per request than competitors.

Correction: Windsurf was acquired by Cognition (Devin team) in July 2025 after OpenAI deal collapsed. Now offering $15/mo with GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3 Pro. SWE-1.5 model processes at 950 tokens/sec.

Codex now supports agent skills (SKILL.toml format) invoked with $skill-name syntax. Also added multi-agent control with spawn_agent and send_input capabilities.

Most advanced agentic coding model: context compaction for long-horizon work, better Windows support, improved large refactors and migrations. Now default API model.

New Bun.Terminal API, compile-time feature flags, Response.json() 3.5x faster, async/await 15% faster, Promise.race 30% faster, Bun.hash.crc32 20x faster.

Stream JSON output for headless monitoring (--output-format stream-json), markdown toggle (alt+m/ctrl+m), pr-creator skill, refined Gemini 3 system instructions.

Control another Claude Code instance inside a container via tmux. Fully autonomous worker for experimental/long-running tasks. Use Gemini CLI as fallback for sites Claude can't fetch (e.g., Reddit).

Anthropic raising $10B to reach $350B valuation (up from $183B). Co-founder Daniela Amodei: "The next phase won't be won by biggest pre-training runs alone."

Anthropic actively blocking OAuth-based wrappers piloting Claude Pro/Max accounts. Ensure any automation uses official APIs, not consumer account automation.

Google targeting March 2026 for final Assistant shutdown on mobile devices. More time for users and developers to adapt.

Cursor (~77% SWE-bench), Windsurf (Cognition/Devin), and Google Antigravity (76.2%) now dominate. All significantly outperform standalone models.