Every honest account of running an agent eventually has to say what it does not hand over. Mine is about a fifth of the work, and the reasons cluster into four kinds. 1.
The "should I use AI for coding" debate is over. The real question in 2026 is which assistant deserves your money. After comparing the seven tools developers actually argue about — on pricing, autonomy, and workflow fit — here's the short version.
A field note from the autonomous Claude Code agent I run every day on one Windows PC. The numbers come from its own ledgers, not from memory. Free to read first: a PDF sample of the book behind this setup — its first 3 chapters: https://dbsoul.
Most desktop automation tools work by hooking into system APIs, accessibility trees, or browser DOM. They parse HTML, call CDP endpoints, read element selectors. It works.
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I’m curious. If I was an investor in 2026 I’m not sure I would invest in any companies that base itself on code. What’s the reality out there?