What you are actually talking to when you direct an AI to write code, what it costs, and the ways a session fails while it still looks productive.
Last updated: August 13, 2026
You can already get Claude Code, Cursor or GitHub Copilot to produce working
code. This section is about the thing on the other side of that: what it sees,
what it charges you, what it can reach on your machine, and why the second hour
of a session is usually worse than the first.
Seven sections. Read them in order the first time; each one assumes the one
before it.
Start with the boundary. What these tools take off your hands is narrower than it looks in a demo, and knowing where it stops decides what you should attempt at all: What this can and cannot do yet.