When to Use Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini as a Dev in 2026

It’s 2026. It’s time to stop asking, “Which AI is best?” The most effective developers aren’t loyal to one tool. They keep one or two (sometimes three) AI providers in rotation. The goal? Pick whichever fits the job at hand, whether that’s chat, IDE assistance, terminal agents, or cloud agents. Here’s how I think about […]

How to Actually Use Claude as a Dev in 2026

There was a weird period in 2024–2025 where using Claude effectively felt like learning stage magic. People built giant prompt templates. They argued about “perfect prompting.” Everyone had a system with 14 rules, XML tags, and a prompt library named something like FINAL_v2_REAL. A lot of that work is gone now. Claude got better at […]