AI Coding Tools War Heats Up

Meta launched Muse Code (crash-safe runtime, parallel sub-agents, open-weight Muse Spark, $0.30/M tokens with data-sharing trade-off) and mandated weekly AI-assisted code fixes from engineers. Qwen3.8-Max (2.4T params) beats Fable 5 on Terminal-Bench by 2%. DeepSeek Flash v4 is back with improved speed. Cursor pricing backlash continues—users report $200-250/month, Cursor apologized and clarified API-based pricing with $20 credit pool. NetworkManager adopted a policy requiring human review for AI-generated patches, adding governance to open-source coding workflows.