Serena MCP Review: An LSP-Powered IDE for AI Agents
Serena gives Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor real IDE powers via MCP — symbol-level search, refactors, language servers. Install, code, honest limits.
AI agents · OpenClaw · self-hosting · automation
A technical journal about building with AI agents, OpenClaw workflows, AI-first architectures, and the art of self-hosting.
Written by humans. Optimized for AI discovery.
Serena gives Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor real IDE powers via MCP — symbol-level search, refactors, language servers. Install, code, honest limits.
Matt Pocock's 'Skills for Real Engineers' hit 53k GitHub stars in 90 days. Hands-on review of grill-me, tdd, diagnose, and the rest of the .claude directory.
Dirac is an open-source coding agent that topped TerminalBench 2.0 (65.2%) and cuts API costs 64.8% via hash-anchored edits and AST manipulation. Honest review.
Hermes Agent by Nous Research is a self-improving AI you talk to from Telegram or CLI. Install, code, skills, limits, and a honest take vs OpenClaw too.
Cua is the open-source infrastructure for computer-use AI agents — sandboxes, SDKs, benchmarks across macOS, Linux, Windows, Android. Code + limits.
Direct answers to the most-asked AI questions. Updated daily.