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Claude Code Subagent Model: Put Explore on Haiku 5.5
Claude Code's Explore subagent runs on your main model, and CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL alone won't move it. Three ways to put it on Haiku 5.5, with test runs.
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Claude Code for Teams: Team Seats vs API vs Enterprise (2026)
Team seats ($25 or $125 a month), Enterprise ($20 plus API-rate usage) or the Console API? How to pay for Claude Code for a team, with 10-developer math.
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Do Your Agent Hooks Fail Open? Claude Code vs Codex vs Cursor vs Gemini CLI
A guard hook that crashes, times out or points at a missing script lets the tool call through by default in Claude Code. v2.1.295 adds onFailure: block. Here is what each coding agent does when your policy hook breaks, with real test runs.
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Claude Code vs Codex vs Copilot CLI: Local Sandboxes Compared
Copilot CLI local sandboxing is GA. How it compares with Claude Code and Codex on defaults, network, credentials, Windows, and what still runs outside.
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DeepSeek 4.1 Flash as a Daily Coding Model: Cache, Peak Hours and Limits
DeepSeek 4.1 Flash as a daily coding model: what a session costs, how peak hours double the bill, why caching matters, and where the subsidy argument holds.
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Durable AI Agent Frameworks Compared: One Run, Four Stacks
One agent run crashes mid tool call, waits two days for approval, then retries a charge. How LangGraph, Mastra, Pydantic AI and OpenAI Agents SDK handle it.
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EmbeddingGemma 2 Guide: Local Multimodal Embeddings for Code
EmbeddingGemma 2 is a 740M open model that embeds code, images, video and audio in one space. Specs, Matryoshka storage math, and where it breaks.
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GitHub Copilot CLI With Ollama: Local Models and the New Sandbox
Copilot CLI 1.0.94 finds local Ollama models from /model and ships an OS-level sandbox. Setup, the 4k context trap, and why local is not offline.
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Google AI Pro vs Gemini API: What Developers Actually Get
Google AI Pro costs $19.99 a month and has no API key, but includes $10 of monthly Cloud credits. When the subscription wins and when to pay per token.
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Cheapest Subagent Model: Haiku 5.5 or GPT-6 Luna? Routing, Compaction and Cost per Task
Which cheap model belongs under your orchestrator? Haiku 5.5 vs GPT-6 Luna as a subagent or worker: routing by prompt length, compaction, tool-call gotchas and cost per agent task.
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How to Keep API Keys Away From Your AI Coding Agent: Claude Code vs Codex vs Cursor vs Gemini CLI
A deny rule on .env stops cat but not a Python one-liner. Here are the three layers that actually keep secrets out of a coding agent's context - file rules, environment scrubbing and credential masking - and what Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI give you for each, with real test runs.
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llama.cpp MoE Offload: --n-cpu-moe vs the New Expert Cache
llama.cpp now caches hot MoE experts on the GPU. In the PR author's RTX 5090 run, --cpu-moe plus --moe-cache-mib decoded 2.2x faster than --fit. When to use each flag.
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