New AI Coding Series, GPT-5.2, and Cursor Visual Editor
And other news in AI Coding: December 17, 2025
This week, I’m starting a YouTube series building an Exam Project from Upwork, showing how exactly I’m using Claude and other AI tools/features.
The first video is already live on YouTube:
But also, with that, I’m starting a PAID TIER of this newsletter, with extra deeper content available only to Paid members.
The first example is the same video series, but paid members will receive videos EARLIER than on YouTube, and will have a link to Github repository.
So, for Paid members, TWO videos are available: they can follow the whole series in this article which I will update with new videos as soon as they’re ready.
I will add more content and perks for Paid members, so if you want to support my AI Coding experiments, subscribe here for $8/month or $80/year.
Now, back to the usual FREE content, which will still continue weekly, every Wednesday.
My YouTube Videos
I Tried New Cursor Browser Visual Editor: Will I Use It? (7 mins)
Gemini 3 Pro is BEST for Visual Design? I Tried in Antigravity vs Cursor. (8 mins)
CLAUDE.md: Important Guidelines on Top or at the Bottom? (3 mins)
Praising of Opus 4.5
This week, I noticed A LOT of people saying good things about Opus 4.5. A few examples below.
McKay Wrigley on X: “The more I code with Opus 4.5, the more I think we’re 6-12mo away from solving software.”
Post on Reddit: Opus 4.5 is the first model that makes me actually fear for my job
Another Reddit post: Opus 4.5 - shut up and take my money
Even Elon Musk Admitted Opus 4.5 Is Outstanding
Still, every model has its “bad days”: Ian on X shares his experience on Opus 4.5 vs GPT-5.2 on different days.
AI Coding News, Tips, and Opinions
New Cursor v2.2: Debug Mode, Plan Mode improvements, multi-agent judging, and more.
Mistral AI: Introducing the Devstral 2 coding model family.
Claude Code new features: Async subagents, Instant compact, Customer session names, Usage stats. And even more updates: Claude Code on Android, Hotkey model switcher, Context window info in status lines.
Business side of AI: Kilo Code Raises $8 Million to bring Kilo Speed to Agentic Engineering
Interesting perspective. Hunter on X: “An interesting update: the team is starting to move away from AI coding completely (devin/claude/etc) because it’s so much harder to review the AI code than writing things themselves.“
Very practical write-up by TJ Miller: How we use Claude Code at Geocodio
Claude-Mem: a free plugin to persist memory across Claude sessions.
Claude Directory: Explore and generate rules, browse MCPs, find jobs, and connect with the community.
Quick tip: Claude prompt stashing. It’s like git stash, but for your prompt.
From Vibe Coding To Vibe Engineering – Kitze. MUST-watch video if you want to laugh hard about current state of AI coding. Amazing prezentation skills.
Finally, security reminder: This is what happens when you vibe code so hard
That Opus 4.5 hype is real but the day-to-day variance point matters more than people admit. Had a project last week where it nailed complex refactoring on Monday then struggled with basic state management on Wednesday. The trend toward teams moving away from AI coding tools (that Hunter tweet) is fascinating becuase it suggests we're hitting the review bottleneck faster than the generation one.