Vanja Petreski

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Fuck You OpenAI

And Fuck Sam Altman Too

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Overtime: When the Plan Runs Out, Credits Take Over

My harness stopped Claude Code and Codex at 95% of their plan windows, even when usage credits could have paid for more. Now it checks for usable credits first, keeps working until they run low, and says so in the status bar.

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The Thinking Dial

What reasoning effort really changes in Claude Code, Codex and local models: thinking tokens, tool calls, cost, wait and usage limits. The evidence, the defaults that move under you, my own harness settings, and how to choose a level.

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The Switchboard: OpenRouter, Explained

One API key, about 350 models, dozens of hosts behind the popular ones. A complete guide to OpenRouter: how its routing, prices and privacy really work, how coding agents plug in, and where it would fit a three-agent harness.

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The Third Mind: Local AI for When the Cloud Runs Out

OpenCode on open-weight models, running on a MacBook Pro beside Claude Code and Codex: the agent that works when both are out of quota. Memory, prompt caching, uncensored models, self-updating lineups and a coding duel with Claude.

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We Are Product Builders Now

Agents now ship while I sleep. The scarce work moved from writing code to understanding it, and I think engineering, product, design and data will fold into one role. A short documentary and the case for the product builder.

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Total Recall: How QMD Works

An 8-minute documentary and a field guide to QMD, the local search engine that gives coding agents a memory: one real query traced stage by stage, the harness that makes agents use it, and the numbers from six months of daily use.

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How to Get Claude Certified: Four Exams, and Who Can Sit Them

Anthropic's four certification exams cost $99 to $175, are proctored by Pearson VUE and are open only to people at Claude Partner Network firms. Who can sit what, how the exam works, how to prepare, and the free Academy courses for everyone else.

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Claude Cites My Blog. My Analytics Call It Direct.

One old post brought in 24 of my 30 new subscribers in two weeks, every one labeled Direct, while Google sent almost nothing. Claude cites it, through links that drop the referrer. The evidence, a check you can run, and what it can't prove.

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Nano Banana 2.1 vs Sunburst at Max: Cheaper, Still Behind

Google lists Nano Banana 2.1's 1K image output at $0.0336, about a sixth of what one Sunburst image at max cost me. Sunburst still leads all six independent leaderboard views I checked. Prices, Google's 4K discrepancy, features, and which jobs suit which model.

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One Task, One Session: The Parallel Agent Field Manual

A 9-minute documentary and a field manual for running Claude Code and Codex in parallel: when to stay, clear, branch, fork or spin off, when you need a worktree, what it costs, and how to make the agents do it for you.

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Dynamic Workflows Move to the Server

An agent can now write a program that runs many agents in phases on Anthropic's servers. How a run works, what it costs, and what to check first.