What AI coding assistants actually deliver in 2026. Where they save hours, where they create new work, the productivity research, and the adoption patterns of teams that ship faster vs teams that hit dead ends.
An honest 2026 comparison of Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Code. Strengths, pricing, context windows, agent modes, multi-file edits, and a clear by-workflow recommendation.
How Claude Code Skills work, the SKILL.md format, when skills beat tools, multi-session workflows (writer/reviewer, fresh-context review), and the agentic coding patterns that ship real production code in 2026.