The AI Code Ecosystem

State of the Union: January 2026 // Prepared for Boss
01 // The Context Horizon (Memory)
Gemini 3 Pro
10,000,000 Tokens (The Monorepo God)
Grok 3
1,000,000 Tokens (Wildcard)
Claude Opus
500,000 Tokens (Architect)
Claude Sonnet
200,000 Tokens (Driver)
GPT-5.2
128,000 Tokens (Bottleneck)
02 // The Workflows (Chassis + Engine)

The Monorepo

For Refactoring & Legacy
Chassis: Gemini Code Assist
Engine: Gemini 3 Pro

"I see all files at once." Use this when you need to change an API signature across 400 files.

The Agent

For Building & TDD
Chassis: Cline (MCP)
Engine: Sonnet 4.5

"I act on your behalf." Connects to DBs and Terminals. The daily driver for power users.

The Sniper

For Logic & Math
Chassis: OpenAI Codex
Engine: GPT-5.2 + o3

"I solve the hard problem." Use when you are stuck on a specific algorithm or regex.