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  New/Sep 29

  Claude Sonnet 5.5 Developer Guide: Pricing, Benchmarks, and the Five API Changes

  Claude Sonnet 5.5 (claude-sonnet-5-5) is Anthropic's new mid-tier model: $2/$10 per million tokens, 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, 1M context, now GA in GitHub Copilot and on Vercel AI Gateway. The pricing math, the five...

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  Fresh/Sep 28

  How to Use Jev: Every Way to Call It, the Opus 5.5 Pairing, and Laya vs Kev vs Ollaya

  TypeSafe's Jev dropped its waitlist on September 27. Every verified way to call it (API, Python SDK, llm CLI, Pydantic AI, Cloudflare, Vercel, OpenRouter), the Jev + Claude Opus 5.5 coding-agent pattern driving...

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  Updated/Sep 28

  Claude Opus 5.5 Developer Guide: API Examples, Claude Code Setup, Pricing, and When to Use It

  Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5) is Anthropic's new default Opus: $4/$20 per million tokens, $0.20 cache reads, 1M context, thinking always on with medium default effort. Runnable TypeScript and Python SDK examples...

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  Fresh/Sep 28

  GPT-6 Astra Release Guide: Benchmarks, $10/$50 Pricing, and How to Run It in Codex and OpenCode

  GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's max-capability model: 1.05M context, $10/$50 per million tokens, the first OpenAI model rated Critical for cyber, and new highs on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and OSWorld 2.0. What it is, what the...

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  Updated/Oct 2

  OpenAI DevDay 2026: What to Expect - Confirmed, Reported, and Rumored

  OpenAI DevDay 2026 is Tuesday, September 29 at Fort Mason in San Francisco, with Sam Altman's keynote livestreamed free at 10:00 a.m. PT. What OpenAI has confirmed, what Fortune and BleepingComputer have reported, which...

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  Rising/Sep 26

  GPT-6 Sol vs Claude Opus 5.5 vs Grok 4.7: The September 2026 Price War

  Three frontier launches in 48 hours repriced the agentic workhorse tier: Grok 4.7 at $2/$6 (Sep 21), Claude Opus 5.5 at $4/$20 with $0.20 cache reads (Sep 22), and GPT-6 Sol at $2/$10 with Luna at $0.10/$0.50 (Sep 22)...

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   01/Design

   AI Design Slop: 16 Patterns That Out Your App as Vibe-Coded

   AI design slop is the set of 16 landing page patterns that mark a site as vibe-coded. Adrian Krebs scored 1,590 Show HN pages: 22% heavy, 32% mild, 46% clean.

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   02/GLM

   Where to Run GLM-5.3 Free and Cheap: Flash, Batch and Provider Prices (2026)

   GLM-5.3 routes compared, verified October 1, 2026: OpenRouter hosts list it from $0.12 per million input tokens, GLM-5.3-Flash costs $0.15 input and $0.50 output from Z.ai, batch drops to $0.45/$2.00, and the Coding...

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   03/Article

   TypeSafe Jev: Decision-Only Model Pricing and Benchmarks (2026)

   TypeSafe's Jev returns typed decisions at $0.042 per million input tokens and 70-500 ms latency. Benchmarks, pricing and alternatives, verified October 2, 2026.

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   04/AI Coding

   ZCode Developer Guide 2026: Z.ai's Agentic IDE for GLM-5.3

   ZCode is Z.ai's free desktop agentic development environment tuned for GLM-5.3. Setup, Goal Mode, pricing, and how model connections work.

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   05/Best of

   Best Local AI Models in 2026 - Run on Your Machine

   The 12 best AI models you can run locally in 2026. Hardware requirements, install commands, and performance benchmarks for Llama, Qwen, Gemma, Phi, Mistral, and more.

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   06/Claude Code

   Claude Code Permissions: settings.json Allow, Deny, Ask

   Configure Claude Code permissions in settings.json: allow, deny, and ask rules, scope precedence, tool specifiers, and the headless flags you need for CI.