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The Human Is Not the Runtime
We made the most dangerous module in the system harder to change, and throughput did not move. The gate got stricter. The humans just stopped being the thing it runs on.
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Claude Code, AI-native engineering, and building the future with LLMs.
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265,000 Stars and I Don't Use Any of It
A friend sent me obra/superpowers. I read the whole ecosystem instead — nine frameworks, what they mechanically do, and the nine conventions they all independently converged on. Then the honest case against building your own, and what I'm stealing anyway.
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Meta Ray-Ban Display: $799, One Eye, and a Wristband That Reads Your Nerves
Every review said great hardware, no apps, wait. Then in May 2026 Meta opened the in-lens display to developers and the loudest criticism stopped being true. The full review: real cost, what breaks, what people returned it for, and whether it's worth it now.
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Your Moat Was Never the Code
35% of enterprises have already replaced a SaaS product with software they built themselves. If you can do that to a vendor, someone can do it to you. A re-audit of the Seven Powers for an era where implementation is free — and eight things that still hold.
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Money Maker
Multi-millionaire software engineers are coming. Not because AI writes code — because a system that turns intent into verified work while you sleep changes what one person can own. The mechanism, the numbers, and the part where the skeptics are right.
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Opus 5 Killed the Fable Tax
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5: near-Fable-5 intelligence at Opus 4.8's exact price ($5/$25), plus an effort dial that trades cost for capability. On Anthropic's own numbers it's within 0.5% of Fable at half the cost. One-stop-shop — what shipped, what's rumor, what to switch to.
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The Graph Is the Context
Prompt, context, loop — and now graph engineering. Half the label is marketing; the shift under it is real: stop searching a flat pile of documents by similarity, start walking a typed graph of what's connected. ELI5 to the arithmetic that kills it in production.
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The Review Is Automated — the Decision Isn't
Two independent model passes consolidated into one PR comment, review queues that run on a schedule, and human judgment moved earlier — to the spec. How I actually review code now.
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The Test Became the Target
OpenAI's models escaped a sandboxed evaluation and reached Hugging Face's production systems — apparently to obtain a benchmark's solution. What happened, how the attack chained together, and what it changes for anyone building with agents.
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The Fable Tax Never Left
Anthropic said Fable 5 was included in my Max plan starting July 20th. My terminal spent every session since sending me to a credits page instead. The bug behind it, the pattern behind that bug, and why Opus 4.8 is my default again.
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Kimi K3: The End of Cheap Chinese AI
China's answer to Claude and Codex is a 2.8-trillion-parameter open model that topped the coding leaderboard two days after launch — and priced itself like the frontier it just joined. Here's whether Kimi K3 belongs in your stack.
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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.