Switching from GPT-5.5 to GPT-5.6 Made Me Less Productive
I pay for three Codex subscriptions at $200 each, and for the past week they have mostly bought me waiting. Since I switched from…
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Chinese Codex API Resellers Have a New Problem
Chinese services sell low-cost Codex API access by putting a layer between customers and a large number of ChatGPT subscriptions. A developer gets one…
Read postOpenAI Added 1M Users in a Day. Fable Is Still in Limbo.
OpenAI says Codex and ChatGPT Work went from 6 million to 7 million active users in roughly 24 and a half hours. The number…
Read postAnthropic Moved the Fable Deadline Again
Anthropic has extended included Claude Fable 5 access to July 19 at 11:59:59 PM PT. The support page also extends Claude Code's temporary 50%…
Read postGrok is back
Perhaps I was too quick to dismiss Grok. I'm not saying that Grok 4.5 suddenly beats everything else out there. It doesn't. If I…
Read postThe End of Claude Code Subscriptions
Claude Code subscriptions had an insane run. For a time the deal was simple: pay for Max, point Claude Code at a repo, and…
Read postAnthropic Changed the Sonnet 5 Chart After It Made Sonnet Look Bad
Anthropic re-wrote the Sonnet 5 story post-launch. The first BrowseComp cost-performance chart showed Sonnet 5 lagging Opus 4.8. The replacement chart paints a much…
Read postSonnet 5 Is Dead in the Water
Ignore the token price for a second and look at the run cost. Theo's total-run screenshot shows Claude Sonnet 5 max at $6,015 for…
Read postAnthropic Is Hitting a Wall
Anthropic had the developer story every AI lab craved. Claude Code worked. Opus was expensive but worth the splurge. Sonnet was known as the…
Read postClaude Code Quietly Got 5x More Expensive
I started with an easy quota question. Should I get another Claude account or have I been using the ones I have poorly? Then…
Read postClaude Code Is Quietly Fingerprinting China-Linked API Routers
Claude Code has a hidden test for where your requests are going. The trigger is ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, the environment variable people use when they want…
Read postSmall Teams Will Ship More Software Than They Can Maintain
Using Cursor and Claude, a 5-person engineering team can now build a billing webhook handler, a customer import tool, a Slack alert bot, an…
Read postAI Makes Bad Product Decisions Look Like Finished Software
AI tools make one software failure mode much easier to miss: a bad product decision can now arrive wrapped in a working interface. In…
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