The Fable Tax Moved Inside the Plan
The surcharge is gone, but the economics didn't budge. Anthropic didn't make Claude Fable 5 free — it found a subscription-shaped way to charge twice.
The Most Biohacked Thing at Ritwal Wasn't the Food
If your idea of optimization can't survive lobster, a tomahawk, and a long dinner with people you love, the protocol is the problem.
Three Months In
Ninety days on a full hormone-and-peptide protocol. The vials are running dry, a blood panel is two weeks out, and after three years the Cuban cigars are done as of today. Round one was the learning curve — here's the scorecard before the real plan begins.
The Cost Control Plane
Your agents run at max reasoning, in YOLO mode, around the clock — and the bill scales with ambition, not headcount. The fix isn't a cheaper model. It's a control plane: see every dollar, send judgment to the frontier and volume to the floor, cache hard, and bound every loop.
678 Korean BBQ
One normal day in a biohacking family: the kids burn energy at football, then refuel on grilled protein and a table full of fermented vegetables — and I get a clean run at my own inputs. Here's why Korean BBQ is quietly one of the best meals a biohacker can order.
Smooth Skin & the Colombian-Arab Chef
Two updates: a Colombian-Arab chef teaching the kids to cook — with the real science on why the Levantine pantry is one of the healthiest on earth — and a follow-up to the oily-skin post. The skin turned smooth, and the honest reason is mostly metabolic, not the peptides.
The Robots Are Coming, and My Kids Can’t Wait
Everyone keeps asking whether AI will take their kids’ jobs. Wrong question. The kids growing up now won’t compete with AI — they’ll speak it natively, and a head start on that fluency is the best investment I know of.
Ten Minutes of Morning Sun
Get outside in the first hour after waking and you set your alertness now and your sleep tonight — no supplement does that for free. The science, the dose by cloud cover, my one-hour pool-sun-sauna routine, and the 10-minute version for busy days.
The Fable Tax
Tomorrow, Anthropic’s best model leaves the Max plan and starts charging by the token — on top of your subscription. I’m not paying it. Here’s the stack I’m switching to, and why I think Anthropic blinks.
Make Love Not War
Two rival frontier models, both at maximum reasoning, in one loop that ships unattended for days. It runs $500–$1,000 a day — and measured against what it delivers, that's cheap.
Sol Ships: GPT-5.6 in Your Pro Plan, at Half Fable's Price
The Sol/Terra/Luna preview is now real. GPT-5.6 shipped July 9 — and the story isn't the benchmarks. It's that Sol is bundled into ChatGPT Pro at half of Claude Fable 5's token price, plus one coding benchmark OpenAI quietly skipped.
J-Space: The Silent Workspace Inside Claude
Anthropic found a small, privileged workspace inside Claude — internal patterns, readable with a new Jacobian 'J-lens', holding concepts the model reasons with but never writes down. Not a consciousness claim. Maybe something more useful: a window into the thoughts a model doesn't print.