Mahnoor Faisal Jun 8, 2026, 10:30 AM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
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…Microsoft's Copilot was one of the most direct attempts to make AI the centerpiece of a computing platform, but the market responded with a level of indifference that was nearly impossible…
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…But as it turns out, I wasn’t being limited by the AI; I was being limited by a lazy setup. After a few weeks of trial and error, and some deep…
…However, there's a big difference in how the two agentic tools work: Codex runs tasks in an isolated cloud sandbox, while Claude Code operates directly in your local environment . For my…
…directory and wire in through the MCP Servers settings yourself. Related I finally found a local LLM I want to use every day (and it's not for coding) Local AI that…
…I now think of it more as a context-aware terminal agent, which also happens to be great at coding. Claude Code excels at a lot of tasks for the same reason…
…Rather than just rolling the dice with them, I'm using Claude Code 's agentic capabilities, I prompted it to build and iterate on custom Windows utilities. Here's what has worked…