Cursor/Cline/Windsurf are my recommendations for clients. For models stay away from Sonnet 3.7. I find it just lies to you. I'd rather you a slightly less capab

Cursor/Cline/Windsurf are my recommendations for clients. For models stay away from Sonnet 3.7. I find it just lies to you. I'd rather you a slightly less capable model like Sonnet 3.5 where I know it will just make mistakes that won't compile. I do my planning with a combination of Grok3, and higher power OpenAI models. Once I have plan of what I want to build, I create an implemenation_plan.md with all the steps to build my solution. (Generated by the higher power models) I carefully review this plan and if it looks good, I throw it into agent mode and get to work.