CODING AGENTS

Factory AI's Droid agent surfaces a new competitive front in coding tools: cost-per-completed-task. Here's what their architecture reveals about where the whole industry is heading.

Factory Droid is a terminal-native AI coding agent with multi-model routing, headless CI execution, and browser automation built in. Here is everything you need to know to set it up and decide if it fits your workflow.

Microsoft's new in-house coding model matters less as a benchmark headline and more as a signal that Copilot is becoming a routing layer for cost, latency, ownership, and review quality.

Claude Code 2.1.128 is full of small fixes around MCP, worktrees, OTEL, plugins, and permissions. That is exactly why it matters for teams running agents every day.

GitHub's Copilot cloud agent updates are not just about autonomous coding. The bigger shift is usage metrics, session visibility, validation, and review quality.

GitHub Copilot is moving from autocomplete into asynchronous coding agents, terminal workflows, MCP, skills, and model choice. Here is what changed in 2026.

GPT-5.5-Codex merges Codex and GPT-5 stacks. Here is what the unified model means for real coding agents - latency, costs, prompt rewrites.