Tag: comparison

Four ways to run Cursor Self-Hosted Machines workers for Cloud Agents, compared on isolation, pickup latency, session limits, per-session cost, and where the team service-account key ends up. Vercel Sandbox is the default pick, AWS Lambda MicroVMs if agents must reach your VPC.

A September 2026 comparison of GitHub Copilot code review, Cursor Bugbot, and anthropics/claude-code-action@v1 running the code-review plugin: what each one reads, what it skips, what it costs per review, and which to put on which repo.

Ship skwasm with flutter build web --wasm when your dependencies compile to Wasm: it downloads less and rendered 36% more frames than CanvasKit on a heavy scene. On Flutter 3.47.x, keep it single-threaded until the multi-threaded text crash fix leaves beta.

Use Microsoft.Data.SqlClient. System.Data.SqlClient is deprecated, already emits CS0618 on every type you touch, and loses its .NET assets when .NET 8 goes end of support on November 10, 2026, the same day .NET 11 ships. The measured feature gap, the Encrypt default that breaks the migration, and the 7.0 package split.

Use Process.Run when you start a tool and only care how it exited: one call, a timeout that kills the child, and a ProcessExitStatus with the signal. Keep Process.Start when you need the Process object: writing to stdin, reading output as it arrives, UseShellExecute, or killing a whole process tree.

EF Core 11 now defaults UseSqlServer to compatibility level 160, which puts LEAST, GREATEST and two-argument LTRIM/RTRIM into your SQL, including every Take(n).FirstOrDefault(). Keep 160 on SQL Server 2022 and later; pin UseCompatibilityLevel(150) if any environment still runs SQL Server 2019.

Use the native json type on SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL: EF Core 11 gets JSON_CONTAINS, typed JSON_VALUE, in-place modify() and JSON indexes out of it. Stay on nvarchar(max) for SQL Server 2019/2022, legacy tooling, or a schema you must be able to roll back.

Use ToLookup when you group once and only read: it is immutable, returns an empty sequence for missing keys, accepts null keys and keeps first-seen order. Use Dictionary<TKey, List<TValue>> when the groups change after construction or cross a JSON boundary.

ref.watch subscribes and rebuilds, ref.read reads once and never rebuilds. Use watch in every build method and read only inside event callbacks. Here is the decision matrix, the source of both methods in flutter_riverpod 3.4.3, and the four silent failure modes: watch in a callback, read in a provider body, read on an autoDispose provider, and read used as an optimization.

Instructions files are deterministic and always sent. AGENTS.md sits at the bottom of the documented repository precedence list. Copilot Memory is a separate store Copilot writes for itself, read by only three surfaces, and it is not in the precedence list at all. Here is the support matrix and the rule for deciding where each convention belongs.