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  New/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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  Trending/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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  New/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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  New/Sep 28

  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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  New/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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  Rising/Sep 23

  How GPT-6 Astra Builds a Real E-Commerce Site: Product Shots, Pages, and an AI Video Hero

  GPT-6 Astra built a complete yoga clothing store from one prompt in the latest Developers Digest video - generated product photography, click-through product pages, and a custom AI video hero, wired through Codex and...

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   01/Design

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

   Adrian Krebs scored 1,590 Show HN landing pages against 16 AI design patterns. 22% were heavy slop, 32% mild, 46% clean. Here is the pattern list, the method, and why it matters even when you are the one shipping.

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   02/GLM

   Where to Run GLM-5.3 Free and Cheap: Every Provider Compared (2026)

   GLM-5.3 launched on August 14, 2026 with open weights promised in about two weeks - so the access picture is narrower than GLM-5.2's, but the free and cheap routes are already live. Here is every way to run Z.ai's...

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   03/Article

   TypeSafe Jev: the First Decision-Only Model Class, Benchmarked and Priced

   TypeSafe's Jev is the first 'System One' model: no text generation, typed decisions with calibrated probabilities, 70-500ms responses, and $0.042 per million input tokens. Benchmarks, pricing, and the API.

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   04/AI Coding

   ZCode Developer Guide 2026: Z.ai's Agentic IDE for GLM-5.2

   ZCode is Z.ai's free desktop agentic development environment built around GLM-5.2. Here is the developer setup, pricing breakdown, and how it compares to Claude Code and Cursor.

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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: A Practical settings.json Guide for Allow, Deny, and Ask Rules

   Stop the approval-fatigue prompts without going full YOLO mode. A hands-on guide to Claude Code's permission system - settings.json scopes, allow/deny/ask rules, tool specifiers, and the headless flags that actually...