# How to Code with AI

A living timeline of how my software-development workflow evolves as tools, AI agents, and my role in the process change.

Canonical URL: https://jdjuan.io/coding
Author: Juan Herrera
Published: 2026-01-30
Updated: 2026-07-15
Category: Entrepreneurship

> **Living article:** This article is constantly being updated. Instead of pretending there is one timeless way to code, I’m keeping a record of how my workflow changes as the tools change.

## Timeline

### May 2025

I'm using Cursor; it's a lot of fun

### July 2025

I'm reaching Cursors's quota all the time. Not fun.

### August 2025

I'm using Composer (Cursor's own model). It's is actually pretty fast!

### October 2025

I reached my quota again? Switching to Auto, Cursor's freemium option.

### November 2025

Auto sucks. I will upgrade to the €200 Cursor subscription.

### December 2025

Opus 4.5 is amazing! I also heard about Clawdbot but ignore it.

### January 2026

I reached the Cursor quota again! Switching to using Claude Code directly.

### February 2026

Fuck! I'm late to the Clawdbot hype. I set it up. It took one day.

### March 2026

I'm using Clawdbot, now called Moltbot, now called OpenClaw, on Telegram. I send a voice message, and it spawns a Claude Code agent on my EC2 instance, commits the code, pushes it to Vercel, and tells me when the deployment is done.

### April 2026

Ah! Nevermind. Clawdbot consumes too many tokens while constantly failing to achieve certain tasks. The concept is cool but not ready.

### May 2026

I'm using Codex. Solid models, solid UX, and cheaper than Anthropic's. I use Cursor only as my text editor.

### July 2026

Codex is amazing. It's gotten so much better. But I still need a text editor from time to time.