Notes from the Fredrin team

An honest comparison of two tools we don't make: what Cursor does better, what Claude Code does better, what each really costs, and what neither one fixes.

Fredrin team · July 21, 2026 · Comparisons

Claude Max is $100 or $200 a month. Here is the arithmetic against metered API pricing, what the 2026 OAuth rules actually allow, and when Pro is enough.

Fredrin team · July 21, 2026 · Guides

Install Claude Code, log in, write a CLAUDE.md that survives, set permissions you can live with, and run several sessions at once without them colliding.

Fredrin team · July 21, 2026 · Guides

What a git worktree is, the four commands that matter, the gotchas nobody mentions — env files, ports, hooks — and why AI agents made worktrees mainstream.

Fredrin team · July 21, 2026 · Guides

Bloop wound down in April 2026 and Vibe Kanban became community-maintained open source. What changed, and how to move a board across.

Fredrin team · July 21, 2026 · Guides

An AI coding agent is a model with tools, a workspace and a stopping condition. What that buys, how agents differ from assistants, and where they fail.

Fredrin team · July 21, 2026 · Guides

Discover, build, deploy, iterate — and the layer nobody built. A survey of the 2026 FDE stack, competitors included, and where the real gap is.

Fredrin team · July 21, 2026 · Guides

Every major AI code review tool comments and none of them blocks the merge. The tools, honestly compared, and the workflow for reading diffs at volume.

Fredrin team · July 21, 2026 · Guides

Agentic coding is an AI agent reading your repo, editing files and running commands until a check passes. What it is, how it differs, and where it fails.

Fredrin team · July 21, 2026 · Guides

Clients reject AI-written code for the diff, not the author. The review-first workflow that makes a change acceptable regardless of who wrote it.

Fredrin team · July 20, 2026 · Guides

Not by working five times faster. By isolating each engagement so switching costs a glance, and making review — not typing — the thing you optimize.

Fredrin team · July 18, 2026 · Guides

What an FDE loop tests that a standard engineering interview doesn't: scoping ambiguity, building on the customer's product, and owning the outcome.

Fredrin team · July 17, 2026 · Guides

A sales engineer is measured on the deal, a solutions engineer on adoption, an FDE on whether the software works in production. What actually differs.

Fredrin team · July 16, 2026 · Comparisons

If you're reading this, there's a decent chance you have six terminals open right now, each running Claude Code or Codex in its own git worktree.

Fredrin team · June 10, 2026 · Comparisons

I built Fredrin because I kept losing the plot.

Fredrin team · June 10, 2026 · Field notes