AI TOOLS

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Alex Ellis shares real production experience running local LLMs: $12k hardware investment, 2-3 month ROI, and why treating local models as Opus substitutes misses the point entirely.

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Cohere shipped its first developer-facing model on June 9, 2026. North Mini Code is a 30B mixture-of-experts coding model with 3B active parameters, Apache 2.0 weights, and a deployment footprint of a single H100. Here is what it actually offers and where the open questions are.

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Choosing a local coding LLM in 2026 means balancing benchmark performance, hardware cost, and the compliance pressure to keep code off third-party servers. Here is what to run and on what hardware.

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Factory Droid is a terminal-native AI coding agent with multi-model routing, headless CI execution, and browser automation built in. Here is everything you need to know to set it up and decide if it fits your workflow.

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The Miasma worm has evolved from package registry poisoning to directly hijacking AI coding tools - if your team clones open-source repos and opens them in Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or VS Code, you may already be compromised.

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MiniMax M2.5 hits 80.2% on SWE-bench Verified and plugs into the Anthropic SDK with two environment variables. Here is what you need to know before switching.

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OpenRouter gives you one API key for 300+ models, automatic fallbacks, and intelligent provider routing. Here is what it actually costs, how to set it up in five minutes, and when you should skip it entirely.

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An opinionated guide to the MCP server ecosystem in 2026. Curated picks by category, real configuration examples, installation commands, and honest assessments of what works and what does not.

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A searchable directory of 184+ MCP servers organized by category. Find the right server for databases, browsers, APIs, DevOps, and more.

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The exact tools, patterns, and processes I use to ship code 10x faster with AI. From morning briefing to production deploy.

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How solo developers and indie hackers ship products 10x faster using AI coding tools. The complete stack for building alone.

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The definitive collection of Claude Code tips - sub-agents, hooks, worktrees, MCP, custom agents, keyboard shortcuts, and dozens of hidden features most developers never discover.