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The conventional wisdom is simple: use the biggest model you can afford. Opus for quality, Haiku for speed, Sonnet when you want something in between. The assumption is that model...
Read more →“Think step by step.” It’s one of the most widely repeated pieces of prompt engineering advice. Add a chain-of-thought (CoT) instruction to your system prompt and the model reasons more...
Read more →There’s a running joke in the AI community about people who say “please” and “thank you” to their LLMs. The implication is that it’s sentimental, anthropomorphizing—treating a statistical model like...
Read more →I went to Game On Expo 2026 in Phoenix with one goal: see what a gaming convention’s RF environment actually looks like from the ground. One Samsung S21, WiGLE running...
Read more →The Next Knob to Test After I published “I Ran 540 Benchmarks to Prove CLAUDE.md Compression Works”, I got a recurring question: what about temperature? Fair question. If compressing your...
Read more →A few days ago I published “Compress Your CLAUDE.md”, arguing that you should strip human-readable formatting from your CLAUDE.md files to save 60-70% of context bloat. The logic seemed sound:...
Read more →Matt Pocock recently put out a video called “Never Run claude /init” about managing your CLAUDE.md files to avoid context rot. The core argument: claude /init generates verbose boilerplate that...
Read more →Last year, I signed up for a popular budgeting app. During setup, it asked for my bank login credentials. Not an API token. Not read-only access. My actual username and...
Read more →AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude have fundamentally changed how we write code. They’re fast, they’re helpful, and they can scaffold entire applications in minutes. But there’s...
Read more →You’ve built a product. You have users. Revenue is growing. Everything should feel great, but instead, your engineering team is drowning in operational chaos. Deployments take hours. Monitoring alerts wake...
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