The Korden blog
Practical writing on vibe coding, agentic AI, and keeping your code private — from the team building a local-first crew of AI agents.
Latest posts
The best local-first AI coding tools in 2026
The AI coding tools that keep your code on your machine in 2026 — local-first crews, CLI agents, and self-hosted engines — and how to choose between them.
The best AI coding tools in 2026, categorized
A categorized guide to AI coding tools in 2026 — AI editors, CLI agents, cloud engineers, and local-first crews — and the trade-offs that matter.
What is vibe coding — and how do you do it safely?
Vibe coding means describing what you want and letting AI write the code.
How a crew of AI agents ships a pull request
How Korden turns a one-line brief into a merged pull request — the Director, the Scout, Builder, Reviewer, Tester, isolated worktrees, and the human merge.
Keep your code private with local-first AI
Cloud AI tools upload your repo to run agents; local-first tools keep code on your machine.
Ship with a crew of your own
Start a 7-day free trial — no credit card. Have a crew opening pull requests on your machine in minutes. You’re always the one who merges.