{
  "id": 11114214,
  "title": "Iam 12 . My web mentor KODA Is Now in Your Editor. Here Is How I Built a Cursor-Killer Extension on a $150 Phone.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/iam-12-my-web-mentor-koda-is-now-in-your-editor-here-is-how-i-built-a",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-01T05:09:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/koda2026/iam-12-my-web-mentor-koda-is-now-in-your-editor-here-is-how-i-built-a-cursor-killer-extension-on-43en"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A 12-year-old boy named Harun built a browser-based AI coding tool called KODA, which is now available as an extension for Visual Studio Code and Cursor. The extension is built entirely on a $150 phone, without TypeScript, bundler, or node_modules. It functions through a three-step agentic loop - context gathering, secure transmission to a Cloudflare Worker, and intelligent processing and execution. The extension incorporates Constitutional AI Safety, unlimited language support, live web search, and a fallback chain resilience. The architecture is lightweight, with a total footprint of 45KB. The extension can be downloaded from GitHub and installed in VS Code or Cursor by pressing Ctrl+Shift+P -> Extensions: Install from VSIX... and selecting the downloaded file.",
  "summary": "I am 12 years old. My development machine is a POCO C55 ($150 USD). I live in Tamil Nadu, India. For months, KODA lived on the web. It taught beginners how to code using the \"Problem → Cause → Solution → Practice\" method. It spoke every language on Earth. It survived model deprecations with a fallback chain. And it scored 54/54 on senior-level stress tests from Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX/Grok.…",
  "key_points": [
    "12-year-old Harun created KODA AI coding tool",
    "Extension added to Visual Studio Code and Cursor",
    "Lightweight 45KB architecture with Constitutional AI Safety"
  ],
  "editors_take": "Harun's achievement shows that advanced tech development is accessible to young people with the right guidance, and his extension's architecture sets a new standard for lightweight, safety-focused AI tools.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}