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  New/Oct 8

  Claude Sonnet 5.5 Developer Guide: Pricing and API Changes

  Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs $2/$10 per million tokens, and cache reads fell to $0.10 on October 7 - half of Opus 5.5 on every line. Pricing math and API changes.

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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/Oct 8

  Claude Opus 5.5 Developer Guide: Pricing, API, Claude Code

  Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4/$20 per million tokens with $0.20 cache reads. SDK examples, Claude Code setup, and when to pick it over Sonnet 5.5 or Haiku 5.5.

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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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1. 
   01/Design

   AI Design Slop: 16 Patterns That Mark a Site 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

   GLM-5.3 Free and Cheap: Every Route and Price (October 2026)

   GLM-5.3 has no free hosted tier. Cheapest on October 9: Wafer via OpenRouter at $0.049/$3.39, Flash from $0.075/$0.25. Z.ai's promos ended October 7.

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   03/Article

   TypeSafe Jev Pricing, Rate Limits and Benchmarks (2026)

   TypeSafe Jev costs $0.042 per million input tokens, output free, at 80 requests/second. Limits, benchmarks, failure modes and every way to call it, re-verified October 9.

4. 
   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.

5. 
   05/Best of

   Best Local AI Models (2026)

   The best AI models to run locally in October 2026, by hardware tier: Qwen3.8 27B, Gemma 4, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and more, with checked Ollama commands and RAM needs.

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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.