Cursor Pricing, Augment Code Review, and AI (In)Security
What's New in AI Coding: August 20, 2025
I continue this tradition of weekly newsletter, summarizing the week in AI coding for you. Let's dive in!
My YouTube Videos
What I published over the last week:
Cursor Pricing Horror Continues: "Auto" Is Not Free Anymore (10 min)
Augment Code: Worth $50/Month? Three Tests vs Claude Code (18 min)
AI Coding News, Tools, and Opinions
This week is actually much more “calm” with no major releases, compared to last week. Still, A LOT of useful stuff to read! So, what I saw on Twitter/Reddit:
New ways to learn in Claude Code and the Claude app: use `/output-style` with “Learning” mode to occasionally pause and ask YOU to code some of the to-do tasks.
People are unhappy that Claude Code removed the running token amount. Now it’s hard to understand at each time whether it’s actually doing something, waiting for LLM, or there’s a network error.
New tool: ersinkoc/claude-statusline - real-time session tracking and analytics for Claude Code, displaying usage metrics in a compact statusline format.
New tool: intellectronica/ruler - centralise your AI coding instructions for different assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, Aider, etc.).
The Month of AI (Security) Bugs: an article summarizing the findings about all major AI tools (ChatGPT, Codex, Anthropic MCPs, Cursor, Amp, Devin, OpenHands, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and Google Jules), ALL of which are vulnerable to various classic prompt injection problems.
I left Cursor for Github Copilot: Reddit post by someone who changed IDE and didn’t miss Cursor. A lot of comments were actually praising GitHub Copilot, too, so I have it on my list to review the latest VS Code with Copilot. I’ve heard they improved a lot.
My AI Had Already Fixed the Code Before I Saw It: a very good (and very long) article about the workflows of working with AI, and how you should always think about training the tools for the future, instead of focusing on just the current task.
No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive: an opinionated article to calm down those of you who still think AI will take your job.