GitHub Is Capping the AI Pull Request Flood
GitHub has added a setting that lets maintainers cap how many pull requests a person without write access can have open in one repository. Pull requests opened by…
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Sonnet 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 the full Intelligence Index…
Read articleAnthropic 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 workhorse. For a time,…
Read articleClaude 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 I counted the logs…
Read articleClaude Code Is Quietly Fingerprinting China-Linked API Routers
Claude Code has a hidden test for where your requests are going. The trigger is ANTHROPICBASEURL, the environment variable people use when they want Claude Code to talk…
Read articleSmall 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 admin dashboard, a data…
Read articleAI 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 a matter of minutes…
Read articleThe AI Productivity Trap Is More Output
AI makes it dirt cheap to generate code, draft tickets, summarize meetings, and write proposals. But cheaper generation doesn't mean the work actually gets done any faster. More…
Read articleIf Software Gets 90 Percent Cheaper, Who Captures the Savings?
Imagine AI can code at a much higher rate. It’s easy to think development is going to get a lot cheaper. But if writing code is ninety percent…
Read articleThe AI Coding Era Makes Boring Tests More Valuable
Agents can now produce cheap, plausible diffs. A developer can describe a bug, give it to an agent, and get a patch with tests in under a minute.…
Read articleOpen Source Maintainers Need a Spam Filter for AI Labor
AI makes bug reports, pull requests, and security disclosures cheap to create, but expensive to review. Still need to reproduce issues, check compatibility, judge security impact, moderate discussion.…
Read articleThe Junior Developer Problem Is Becoming a Senior Developer Problem
AI is fundamentally changing how junior developers learn, but it’s also making senior developers a whole lot less valuable if all they’re doing is taking well-defined tickets and…
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