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Vibe Coding2026-03-23 · source-backed
Windsurf's Wave 13 makes SWE-1.5 free for all users for 3 months (full SWE-Bench-Pro performance). Five concurrent parallel Cascade agents via git worktrees. Arena Mode for blind A/B comparison with voting. Plan Mode as pre-implementation planning. GPT-5.2-Codex support with four reasoning effort levels.
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The LogRocket February 2026 Power Rankings reshuffled: | Rank | Tool | Price | Key Feature | |------|------|-------|-------------| | 1 | Windsurf | $15/mo | Arena Mode + parallel worktrees | | 2 | Antigravity (Google) | Free-$250 | Deep Google ecosystem integration | | 3 | Cur...
Windsurf Wave 13 took #1 in the LogRocket Power Rankings with Arena Mode (A/B test models on your codebase), Plan Mode, and 5 parallel agents in Git worktrees at $15/mo. Cursor 2.0 counters with 8 parallel agents, async subagent trees, and Composer at 4x speed. Kimi K2.5 crash...
The February rankings reshuffled: Windsurf #1 (Arena Mode for side-by-side model comparison), Antigravity (Google) #2, Cursor #3 (8 async subagents + Multi-Agent Judging), Kimi Code NEW at #4 — the first open-source tool in the top 5 with 100-agent swarm capability backed by K...
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 on April 23, six weeks after 5.4. The capability jump is real: 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 vs Claude Opus 4.7's 69.4%. The Pro tier nearly doubles Opus 4.7 on FrontierMath Tier 4 at 39.6% vs 22.9%. It uses 40% fewer tokens on Codex tasks while matching 5...
Arena Mode is the standout. Run two agents on the same prompt with hidden model identities, vote on which performs better. 40K+ votes so far. Key finding from the community leaderboard: speed beats intelligence in most real-world tasks (Gemini 3 Flash beats Gemini 3 Pro). Plan...
OpenAI rolled GPT-5.5 into Codex for all paid tiers with 58.6% on SWE-Bench Pro. Codex now runs natively on Windows with PowerShell support, no WSL required. Pro subscribers get doubled usage through May 31.
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