Seven hours on a plane, zero internet, and a curiosity about local AI coding. That’s how I found myself downloading 13GB of AI models in an airport lounge, preparing for what would become an accidental experiment in offline development. This wasn’t a research project or a formal comparison of existing solutions. I was heading back from vacation with a long flight ahead and wanted to avoid getting bored. The idle question nagging at me: what would it be like to have a coding assistant tota...| Between the Prompts
Developers on my team use Cursor’s Tab feature. Designers use vibe-coded prototypes to gather feedback from stakeholders. I rely on Claude Code to plan and build larger features. Same AI technology, completely different approaches. The conversation around AI coding tools assumes a binary: you either use AI or you don’t. But that misses how practitioners actually work. In my journey with AI coding tools, I observed three fundamentally different approaches emerging in AI-assisted development.| Between the Prompts