Letting Claude Code work autonomously: auto mode, the Ralph loop and tmux
Letting Claude Code work through the night: auto mode instead of --dangerously-skip-permissions, the Ralph loop against stopping early, and tmux to keep the session alive.
Mistral Vibe: Europe's coding agent for your terminal, and where your code goes
Mistral Vibe is an open-source AI coding agent from France's Mistral AI. European and open source does not mean your code stays local, though; you have to set that up yourself.
Claude plugins and Superpowers: making Claude follow a fixed method
Plugins bundle skills, commands, connectors and subagents. Superpowers makes Claude Code ask questions, plan and write tests first; Anthropic's own plugins do something similar for contracts, bookkeeping and customer support.
OpenCode: the open-source coding agent that isn't tied to one model
OpenCode is an open-source coding agent where you pick the model. What Plan and Build, LSP and AGENTS.md do, which subscriptions you can connect, and why a Claude subscription no longer works since 2026.
Claude Code in PhpStorm: setup, the plugin and the habits that work
Claude Code runs as an agent in PhpStorm's terminal. Here is how to set up the CLI and plugin, and the habits that make it work for me: being specific, small steps, reviews and tests Claude runs itself.