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Pick Copilot coding agent when the work starts and ends on GitHub and you want issue-to-PR with native branch protection. Pick Cursor cloud agents when you want a live, editor-attached VM, multi-repo tasks, and to take over the run by hand. Full feature matrix, the 59-minute cap, the Actions-approval gotcha, and June 2026 billing for both.

Plugin.AdMob now renders native video ads. Drop a MediaView into your NativeAdView template, request video with VideoOptions, and wire up the OnVideoStart/Play/Pause/End lifecycle events — including the custom-controls caveat that trips everyone up on AdMob inventory. Full walkthrough with a complete working example, tested on Android with the native video demo unit.

Install flutter_riverpod for almost every Flutter app. Use riverpod only for Dart-only code, and hooks_riverpod only if you already use flutter_hooks.

In ASP.NET Core 11, return Results<T1, TN> with TypedResults for minimal APIs and ActionResult<T> for controllers. Treat bare IResult and bare IActionResult as escape hatches: they compile for any response but describe nothing to OpenAPI, so you pay for them in hand-written ProducesResponseType attributes.

Use CreateBuilder for a normal app, CreateSlimBuilder when you publish trimmed or Native AOT behind a TLS proxy, and CreateEmptyBuilder only when you want to register every service yourself. Here is the feature matrix and the gotchas that force the call.

Version 2.1.213 caps concurrent subagents and stops nested spawns by default, building on the per-session limits from 2.1.212. Here are the new defaults and env vars.

On EF Core 11, default to complex types for value objects and drop to owned entities only when you need a separate table or a collection mapped to its own rows.

Claude Code compacts, then a single oversized file read or tool result immediately refills the window and it compacts again. Drop the item with /clear, read files in slices, and force big output to disk.

Output caching is the right default for almost every server-side app in ASP.NET Core 11. Response caching only wins when your goal is to steer browser and proxy caches through HTTP headers. Here is the decision, with a feature matrix and the gotchas that force the call.

On EF Core 11, default to TPH for almost every hierarchy, reach for TPC only when you mostly query one leaf type and a benchmark proves it wins, and use TPT only when an external constraint forces you to.