Perplexity vs Claude Agent SDK: Which Is Better in 2026
Last week, I watched an engineering manager spend three days trying to force Perplexity's agent to refactor a legacy Python codebase. It was painful. The agent kept opening browser tabs to search for syntax references, attempting to navigate to GitHub repos, and ultimately produced code that looked right but broke half the existing test suite.
He had fallen for the "AI agent" marketing trap. Both Perplexity and the Claude Agent SDK get