Claude 4 Unleashed: The New Coding Wave - #7

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Issue #7 • 2025-05-27

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Hey readers! 👋 This week’s AI coding landscape has been dramatically reshaped by OpenAI’s Codex release and the flurry of announcements from Google I/O, while Anthropic’s Claude 4 models are setting new benchmarks in coding capabilities — it’s like watching a tidal wave of AI development tools competing for your terminal. 🌊

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This Week’s Highlights 🔥

Claude 4 — Anthropic has launched Claude 4 with two new models: Opus 4 and Sonnet 4, setting new benchmarks in coding and reasoning capabilities. (Ed: Huge news from Anthropic the same week as Google I/O. I’m already using Claude 4 Sonnet as my coding model and it’s leaps and bounds better)
Anthropic

Claude Code is now generally available — Anthropic is bringing Claude to more of your development workflow—in terminals, IDEs, and via the Claude Code SDK. (Ed: Anthropic really trying to push Claude Code everywhere)
@AnthropicAI

Aider LLM Leaderboards — Comprehensive evaluation of language models shows o3 (high) + gpt-4.1 achieving 82.7% accuracy across 225 coding exercises in multiple languages. (Ed: The stats are out for Claude 4, and they’re impressive!)
Aider

Why Your AI Coding Assistant Keeps Doing It Wrong, and How To Fix It — Introduces the ‘Constraint-Context matrix’ to help developers frame tasks in ways that align with AI capabilities for better outcomes. (Ed: Interesting framing of how to think about AI-assisted coding)
The Pete Blog

The Software Engineering Kawagara Moment — Explores how AI is transforming software engineering like an unstoppable wave, reshaping the industry and changing required skills for future engineers.
Pasha

New Tools & Updates 🛠️

Amp Now Uses Claude Sonnet 4 — Amp has transitioned to Claude Sonnet 4, noting improvements in speed, stability, and error recovery. Amp Code

Exploring the JetBrains AI Assistant for Visual Studio Code — JetBrains expands beyond IntelliJ with a VS Code extension offering code completion and documentation generation. The New Stack (Ed: JetBrains released a VS Code plugin? Hell hath frozen over)

Btw you can now use Claude Code within your favorite IDE :) — Claude Code integration now available for various development environments. @alexalbert__ (Ed: So I guess Claude Code works from within VS Code now?)

CodeRabbit PR reviews, more than meets the eye! — AI code review tool reduces time to first comment by approximately 90%. @coderabbitai (Ed: I know a team that’s pretty happy with CodeRabbit. Worth checking out)

Not using Augment Code yet? — Augment Code rolls out Claude Sonnet 4 with sharper edits and improved context handling. @augmentcode (Ed: Two weeks free? I like free stuff!)

Vercel debuts an AI model optimized for web development — Vercel launches ‘v0-1.0-md’ model designed specifically for front-end and full-stack development tasks. TechCrunch

Release v3.17.0 · cline/cline — Adds support for Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4, integrates with Nebius AI Studio, and redesigns the settings page. github-actions[bot]

Release v0.83.2 · Aider-AI/aider — Version bump for the Aider AI software. paul-gauthier

All Hands AI — Organization focused on developing open-source AI software development agents. All-Hands-AI (Ed: Yet another tool, but devotedly open-source)

Insights & Opinions 💡

the koding agents launches will continue until morale improves — A humorous take on the rapid proliferation of AI coding tools in the tech community. (Ed: I laughed. It seems like there really are a ton of these appearing...)
@swyx

The Copilot Delusion — Critiques AI coding assistants as chaotic coworkers that disrupt coding processes rather than enhancing them. (Ed: A critique of AI-assisted coding if you want opinions from the bearish side of things)
isaiahwp

Building with AI: highlights for developers at Google I/O — Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview with improved coding capabilities and introduces new developer tools. (Ed: In case you missed it, here’s everything that Google sprayed AI on)
Google

RT @trashh_dev: my current workflow is to have my code created by @cursor_ai be reviewed by @coderabbitai — Developer shares their “AI duel” workflow using multiple AI tools. (Ed: LOL)
@coderabbitai

I decided to renew my @alexcodes_ai subscription — Xcode user praises Sonnet 4 + AlexSideBar as “shockingly good” for native Apple development. (Ed: Using Xcode? Here’s a viable option)
@SlowbrewedS

Overheard on Reddit/X: ”@Trae_ai is the most underrated AI coding tool” — Trae.ai positions itself as “the best kept secret in AI coding.”
@Trae_ai

Learning Resources 📚

the 35 min non-technical guide to codex — Greg Isenberg shares a concise, non-technical guide to understanding ChatGPT’s new AI agent software development tool. (Ed: Nice deep dive into Codex if you want to learn about it in video form)
@gregisenberg

This is a fantastic educational repo on how to build your own AI coding agent — Learn to build a full agentic workflow that can write, debug, and analyze code across multiple languages. (Ed: AI coding agents aren’t magic! Here’s how to visualize how they work)
@jerryjliu0

Building agents with Google Gemini and open source frameworks — Overview of creating AI agents using Google’s Gemini models with frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, and LlamaIndex.
Google Developers Blog

Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast — Daily livestream and podcast helping professionals enhance their careers through AI. (Ed: Haven’t listened to it yet, but looks like some interesting interviews)
Everyday AI

😮 (!) A+ code model that runs on local — Devstral, a state-of-the-art open model for coding agents that can run locally, developed by Mistral AI and All Hands AI. (Ed: Domain-specific models are starting to heat up)
@saranormous

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