AUTHOR
Ethan Brooks
Developer Tools Editor
Ethan covers coding agents, developer platforms and the infrastructure required to move AI systems from prototype to production.
Email Ethan →Experience and editorial focus
He reviews products through the lens of software delivery: permissions, observability, reversibility and total workflow cost.
Areas of expertise
- Coding agents
- Agent infrastructure
- Developer experience
LATEST WORK
Articles by Ethan Brooks
Coding agents just crossed into the design canvas
Figma’s new agent workflow lets tools such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor work with native canvas objects and design-system rules. The handoff between design and code is becoming a shared workspace.
7 min read →AI AgentsManaged agents are turning prototypes into infrastructure
Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents beta packages the harness, sandbox and long-running execution that teams previously assembled themselves. The launch shifts the agent race from demos to operations.
7 min read →ReviewsCursor review: a powerful AI code editor that still needs engineering discipline
Cursor combines fast completion, codebase search and tool-using agents inside a familiar editor. It can remove hours of mechanical work, but the real product is the review loop—not autonomous code generation by itself.
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