LLM Engineering •
Claude Sonnet 5: Pricing, Benchmarks, Tokenizer Gotcha
Claude Sonnet 5 gives near-Opus coding at Sonnet pricing, but a tokenizer change alters your real cost. Benchmarks, pros, cons, and when to pick it.
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AI Coding Agents & DX •
Is Claude Code Auto Mode Reliable in Production? A Field Report
I ran Claude Code auto mode in production for a week — where it's reliable, where it broke, real token costs from my usage logs, and my honest verdict.
6 min read
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AI Coding Agents & DX •
Claude Code vs Cursor for Production: A Shipping Engineer's Field Report (2026)
Claude Code vs Cursor for production, field-tested on real shipping tasks: a working engineer's decision table, failure modes, pricing, and which to use when.
5 min read
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AI Coding Agents & DX •
Can You Use Claude Code and Codex for Free? Honest 2026 Guide
The honest answer to using Claude Code and Codex for free in 2026: what's truly $0, what isn't, the best free AI coding CLIs, and how to cut your bill.
7 min read
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AI Coding Agents & DX •
How I Built a Full Audio/Video Streaming Microservice in One Day with Claude Fable 5 Auto Mode
Claude Fable 5 in auto mode built my entire HLS streaming microservice in under a day — AWS infra, security, backend, frontend, CI/CD, migrations, runbooks.
11 min read
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AI Coding Agents & DX •
Cursor vs Claude Code vs Copilot (2026): Which AI Coding Tool, for What
Cursor vs Claude Code vs GitHub Copilot in 2026 — how they actually differ in model, workflow, and autonomy, and which to use for what (I use all three).
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AI Coding Agents & DX •
How to Write a CLAUDE.md That Actually Helps
How to write a CLAUDE.md that actually helps Claude Code: what to include, what to leave out, a real structure, and how to stop it from rotting.
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AI Coding Agents & DX •
How to Switch Between Multiple Claude Code Accounts Without Re-Logging In (claude-swap Guide)
claude-swap is an open-source CLI that switches Claude Code accounts in seconds — no browser re-login. How it works, how to use it, and what it misses.
7 min read
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AI Security •
Claude Code Leak 2026: What Escaped and What Didn't
The March 31, 2026 Claude Code source-map leak, explained: what was exposed, what wasn't, Anthropic's DMCA sweep, clean-room rebuilds, and the fallout.
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AI Coding Agents & DX •
Claude Code Review: How It Works, Pricing & Setup
Anthropic's Claude Code Review runs multi-agent PR reviews for $15-$25 each. How it works, pricing, REVIEW.md setup, and where it beats linters.
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