AI Coding Assistants — 2026-04-14
Developers on Reddit are actively dissecting the state of AI agent coders in April 2026, with a lively thread analyzing agents vs. skills vs. workflows gaining traction. The New Stack reports that Cursor, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex are quietly converging into a composable AI coding stack with distinct orchestration, execution, and review layers — a shift nobody formally planned. Meanwhile, the SWE-Bench Verified leaderboard shows Claude Opus 4.5 leading Python-heavy coding tasks at 80.9%, with Gemini 3.1 Pro close behind.
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