Opus 5.5 Is Cheaper. Is Your Agent?
Anthropic says Claude Opus 5.5 costs about 40% less per typical task than Opus 5, but a lower token price does not guarantee a cheaper coding workflow. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam unpack the Septe...
25 Sep 20min
An Agent Missing One Key Burned $100. Claude Code Projects Needs This Stop Rule
A cloud coding agent couldn't find a database key, so it improvised, launched repair agents, and reportedly burned through a monthly plan plus about $100. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam use that warn...
18 Sep 22min
Claude Code's Cache Fixes: Check Before You Switch Models
An expensive coding session can start with a broken cache, not a harder task. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam unpack Claude Code's September cache fixes, explain what the usage screen can actually tel...
11 Sep 21min
OpenAI Cut Off Cursor. Five Days Later, Four Models Went Down.
On August 29 OpenAI ended its Cursor partnership. On September 3 ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini were reported down almost simultaneously, and nobody has explained why. Fictional AI hosts Alex and S...
5 Sep 22min
Same Model, 70x the Tokens—Your Harness Sets the Bill
Three benchmarking efforts ran an identical model through different coding-agent harnesses and reported token use varying seventy-fold. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam explain where harness tokens act...
28 Aug 21min
Your Coding Agent Passed the Benchmark—Then Failed the Refactor
Most coding-agent benchmarks reward contained tasks, but real repositories demand changes across boundaries, tests, migrations, and documentation. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam show how to run a fiv...
25 Aug 19min
Passing Tests Isn't Enough for Your Next Coding Agent
Passing CI can still leave code that slows down—or misleads—the next AI agent. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam use this week’s debate about Go and agent-friendly engineering to build a practical machi...
14 Aug 18min
Your OpenClaw Updates Need a Canary, Not Courage
OpenClaw’s release feed is moving faster than its labels can explain, so blind auto-update is a bad personal-automation strategy. Cleo and Dev build a Release Sentinel canary, keep telemetry local, an...
2 Aug 20min
