AI Coding AgentsbyLinksley.com
Linksley.com Save to my LinksleyThe agents that write and ship code, the plumbing underneath them, and how to tell which is actually good.
There is no best one, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something
Agents → plumbing → benchmarks → guardrails
The honest 2026 position: Cursor for everyday flow, a terminal agent for the hard problems, and something in CI for background work. Most teams that are happy run two, not one. What actually changes your results is not which agent you picked. It is whether the repo has tests, whether the agent can run them, and whether a human reads the diff.
Who this is for
Developers and engineering leads adopting agents on real code
Picked for what they do differently rather than for how they market themselves. If you are evaluating, run the same real ticket through two of them for a week — a benchmark is somebody else's codebase.
- Tests exist and the agent can run them
- It works on a branch, never directly on main
- Secrets are not in the repo or the environment it can read
- A human reads every diff before merge — no exceptions for small ones
- Cost limits set, so a loop cannot run all night
- You can explain what it changed and why, or it does not merge
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