New AI models pop up every week. Some developer tools like @Cursor, @Zed, and @Kilo Code let you choose between different models, while more opinionated products like @Amp and @Tonkotsu default to 1 model.
Curious what the community recommends for coding tasks? Any preferences?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design. It also features a 1M token context window in beta. Sonnet 4.6 has improved on benchmarks across the board. It approaches Opus-level intelligence at a price point that makes it practical for far more tasks. It also shows a major improvement in computer use skills.
With Claude Code on the web, assign multiple tasks that run in parallel while you monitor and steer from your browser or iOS app.
Ideal for tackling bug backlogs, routine fixes, and parallel development work.
Claude Opus 4.6 is Claude’s most capable model yet, built for deep reasoning, long-running agentic tasks, and large codebases. With a 1M token context window, adaptive thinking, and improved planning, it delivers state-of-the-art performance across coding, analysis, research, and real-world work.
Cowork turns Claude into a real coworker. Give it access to a folder on your computer and assign tasks instead of chatting. Claude can read, edit, and create files, plan its work, and execute tasks end-to-end while keeping you in control. Less back-and-forth, more work done.
Claude just launched Claude Opus 4.6 . This is Claude s newest and most capable model so far. It s designed for deep reasoning, long-running agent workflows, and large codebases, with a 1M token context window in beta and stronger planning and code understanding.
Claude is genuinely impressive, but it doesn t remove the need to understand programming fundamentals. You still need to know how systems connect, where data lives, how state is managed, what environments are (dev vs staging vs production), how deployments work, and how things actually run (& fail) in the real world.
For developers, Claude is an incredible accelerator. For non-programmers, it can feel magical at first, but at some point, real engineering knowledge becomes unavoidable.
