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TutorialAI Coding10 min

Install Claude Code on Windows and fix every error

One PowerShell command installs Claude Code on Windows. Here's the exact fix for every install error: PATH, wrong shell, Git Bash, WSL and more.

ESEL Haddad Saad
GuideApp Builders8 min

Seven AI app builders, sorted by what you own at the end

Five of these seven builders will hand you the code. Whether it runs anywhere else depends on the database, the logins and the secrets.

ESEL Haddad Saad
In the works
GuideTeardown9 min

How we test coding agents

Nine tasks, one deliberately broken repo, and a scoring rule that allows ties. The whole kit is public so you can rerun it and disagree with us.

ESEL Haddad Saad
In the works
ComparisonAI Coding14 min

Claude Code vs. Codex: which agent actually finishes the job?

We gave both CLI agents the same nine tasks in the same messy repo and scored every round. The gap is not where the marketing says it is.

ESEL Haddad Saad
In the works
GuideCommerce9 min

How agentic commerce actually works

Checkout was built for humans with thumbs. Here is what changes when the shopper is an agent with an API key and a budget.

ESEL Haddad Saad
In the works
TutorialAgents16 min

Build your first MCP server in 30 minutes

Model Context Protocol without the spec-reading. One server, three tools, and a working connection to a real client.

ESEL Haddad Saad
In the works
ComparisonAI Coding12 min

Cursor vs. Windsurf: the editor war nobody is winning

Two AI-native editors, two philosophies about how much rope to give the model. We used both as a daily driver for a month.

ESEL Haddad Saad
In the works
GuideFundamentals8 min

You are not running out of context. You are wasting it.

Bigger context windows did not fix retrieval. A field guide to what agents actually keep, drop, and hallucinate.

ESEL Haddad Saad
In the works
TutorialAgents13 min

Subagents in practice: when parallel beats sequential

Fan-out is seductive and usually wrong. Here are the four shapes of work where it genuinely pays, with the configs.

ESEL Haddad Saad
In the works
GuideTeardown10 min

Teardown: what you are really paying for per agent run

We instrumented 400 real agent sessions and traced every dollar. Cache hits matter more than model choice.

ESEL Haddad Saad
In the works
TutorialWorkflow7 min

Writing a CLAUDE.md your agent will actually obey

Most instruction files are wish lists. The ones that work are short, testable, and written like a lint config.

ESEL Haddad Saad

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