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Local LLM Speed by Hardware: What llmspeed Gets Right
llmspeed estimates tokens per second for 30 machines and 15 models. What its numbers mean, the memory-bandwidth rule behind them, and why prefill matters for coding agents.
7 min read
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017: Benchmarks vs Opus 5, Pricing, Switch?
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 jumps 11 points on Terminal-Bench 4.0 at the same deepseek-flash price. Benchmarks vs Opus 5, K3, GLM-5.3 and when to switch.
9 min read
RTX Spark for Local LLMs: Will It Run a Coding Agent?
RTX Spark laptops ship October 16 with up to 128 GB of unified memory. Why the 600 GB/s figure is not memory bandwidth and which local coding models fit.
8 min read
OpenCode 2: How to Upgrade From v1 Without Breaking Your Setup
OpenCode 2 upgrade from v1: what the migration guide says breaks (plugins, server API, TUI config), what carries over, and a safe checklist before you switch.
7 min read
Mistral Large 4: Specs, Pricing, Benchmarks and Weights Date
Mistral Large 4 is a 1T-parameter multimodal MoE with 52B active, in public preview at $0.68/$2.09 per million tokens, with open weights due end of October.
14 min read
Run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on a Gaming PC With Strata
Run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next locally with Strata on a 12 GB GPU: hardware needs, speeds by quant, the license catch, and when the hosted API is the better call.
8 min read
Opus 5.5 in Claude Code: The Playbook and Where It Breaks
Opus 5.5 in Claude Code: what each playbook tip changes, from naming the finish line to CLAUDE.md stop rules, and where Hacker News says long runs go wrong.
6 min read
Where to Run DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Free and Cheap
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash replaced V4 Flash. Official API: $0.15 input, $0.60 output off-peak. OpenRouter hosts start near $0.05. MIT weights are on Hugging Face.
6 min read
Ox Alpha on OpenCode: The Free Stealth Model, Specs, Privacy Split, and How to Run It
Ox Alpha is a free stealth model on OpenCode with 1M context. What is confirmed, where OpenCode and OpenRouter differ on retention, and how to run it.
9 min read
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.
13 min read
Headless AI Coding Agents in CI: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and opencode Compared
Headless AI coding agents in CI compared: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and opencode on invocation flags, sandboxing, auth, and output formats.
9 min read
How to Measure AI Coding Tool ROI in 2026
How to measure AI coding tool ROI for Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot: a framework with benchmarks, cost models and metrics that hold up past vendor 10x claims.
8 min read
Nimbalyst: A Visual Workspace That Unifies Codex and Claude Code
Nimbalyst is an open-source visual workspace that runs Codex and Claude Code on your existing subscriptions, with a Kanban board, planning flow and AI commits.
6 min read
Codex Record & Replay: Turn Screen Recordings Into Reusable Automation Skills
Codex Record & Replay companion guide: record a recurring computer task once in OpenAI Codex and replay it as a reusable automation skill, plus where it fits.
6 min read
Cursor Composer 2.5 Developer Guide 2026
Cursor Composer 2.5 guide: Cursor's agentic coding model, setup, Standard vs Fast pricing, benchmarks against Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5, and when to use it.
8 min read
OpenAI Codex in 7 Minutes: The Desktop App, Plan Modes, and Multi-Agent Workflows
OpenAI Codex in 7 minutes: a companion guide to the video tour of the Codex desktop app, plan and goal modes, plugins, multi-agent workflows and UI annotation.
6 min read
Do AI Coding Agents Need Their Own Version Control?
Oak rebuilds version control for AI coding agents with virtual workspaces and branch-per-session flows. Why Git is awkward for agents and what Oak must prove.
8 min read
Where to Run GLM-5.2 Free and Cheap: Providers Compared
GLM-5.2 is an MIT-licensed open-weights coding model. Cheapest routes: OpenRouter hosts from about $0.36 per million input tokens, Z.ai's API, or self-host.
7 min read
The Router Era: Why Not Owning a Frontier Model Became an Advantage
Model routers turn having no single winning model into an advantage: how routing works, why open weights and neoclouds make it cheap, and the counter-argument.
11 min read
Mellum2 Developer Guide: JetBrains' Open-Source Coding Model
Mellum2 developer guide: JetBrains' open-source 12B MoE coding model with 2.5B active parameters. How to run it locally and where it fits in your coding stack.
7 min read
GLM-5.2 Cost Math: When Open-Weights Coding Models Actually Save You Money
GLM-5.2 cost math: when Z.ai's open-weights coding model actually saves money, with per-token pricing, a worked cost-per-task example and a decision guide.
9 min read
GLM-5.2 vs DeepSeek V4 vs Qwen3: The Open-Weights Coding Model Showdown (2026)
GLM-5.2 vs DeepSeek V4 vs Qwen3 vs Kimi K3: open-weights coding models compared on benchmarks, pricing, context windows, self-host footprint and best picks.
14 min read
Enterprise AI Coding Budget Blowouts: What Uber and Microsoft Teach Us
Enterprise AI coding budget lessons: Uber spent its 2026 AI tools budget by April and Microsoft is canceling Claude Code licenses. Spend controls that work.
8 min read
OpenCode Developer Guide: The Open Source AI Coding Agent with 160K Stars
OpenCode developer guide - install the open source, model-agnostic AI coding agent, pick models across 75+ providers and compare it with Claude Code.
11 min read
Best AI Coding Tools July 2026: Updated After Opus 5 and Fable 5 API-Only
Best AI coding tools for July 2026, re-ranked after Opus 5 launched at half Fable 5's price and Fable 5 went API-only - pricing, picks and stacks by profile.
10 min read
Claude Code vs Droid (Factory AI): Which Terminal Agent?
Claude Code vs Droid compared: two of the most capable terminal-native AI coding agents in 2026 on pricing, model flexibility, multi-agent work and team fit.
8 min read
Codex in June 2026: What Changed Since the Spring Wave
Codex changelog for April to June 2026: GPT-5.5, Goal mode going stable, the Chrome extension, iOS access, Bedrock support and Sites, and what each means.
9 min read
Cursor vs Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf): The 2026 IDE Agent Decision
Cursor vs Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) in 2026: overlapping prices, different philosophy. Where each wins, the tradeoffs and a pick by persona.
8 min read
Kimi CLI vs Claude Code: The Budget Question in 2026
Kimi CLI vs Claude Code in 2026 - compare pricing, models, project memory and enterprise support to decide which coding agent fits solo work or a team.
8 min read
Gemini CLI Guide: 1M Token Context and Who Can Still Use It
Gemini CLI puts a 1 million token context in your terminal but now only serves paid Gemini API, Vertex AI and Code Assist users. Setup and TypeScript workflow.
4 min read
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