I test AI tools so you don’t have to.

The Dorian Gray Listing and Schrödinger's Price: a night with an AI used-car investigator

I built two Claudes in a pair — one scrapes, the other tears it apart in a real Chrome via DevTools MCP. Self-hosted search engine in Docker instead of paid APIs. Here's what they found the first night.

Web scraping in 2026: a practical guide and where AI changes it

What scrapers and crawlers actually do, how to do it well in 2026, how to handle anti-bot defenses, legal questions — and how LLMs like Claude are changing data extraction.

What's new at Anthropic: April recap (Opus 4.7, Haiku 4.5, and Claude Code evolves)

April 2026 roundup of Anthropic news — Opus 4.7 with 1M context, Haiku 4.5 as a fast workhorse, Claude Code updates, and what it means in daily work.

ChatGPT

The most widely used AI chatbot from OpenAI — huge ecosystem, multimodality and GPT Store. Where it excels and where it lags behind Claude?

Free (GPT-4o mini) / Plus $20/month / Pro $200/month / API from $2.50/1M tokens

Claude

The most accurate AI assistant on the market — constitutional AI, 200k context window, extended thinking and Claude Code for developers.

Free (limited) / Pro $20/month / Team $25/month / API from $3/1M tokens

Cursor

AI-first editor built on VS Code — integrated chat, inline edits and Composer for code generation. The best IDE for AI-assisted development.

Hobby free (2000 completions) / Pro $20/month / Business $40/month