How to Get Extra Codex Usage with ChatGPT Desktop Referrals
How to check a ChatGPT Desktop referral offer and keep referral rewards separate from trials, purchased resets, product credits, and API credits.
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Archive
Chronological archive of every published AIHackers article, useful for tracking how guidance, model economics, and security assumptions evolved over time.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: The API Value Frontier
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 pairs a 1M context window and MIT weights with a $0.14/$0.28 direct API, but high token use and hallucinations still require evaluation.
GPT-5.6 Luna’s July Price Cut: Historical Analysis
Why GPT-5.6 Luna became the July OpenAI value candidate for bounded Codex work and high-volume API tasks, with subscription and API economics kept separate.
Claude vs OpenAI Data Retention: What Gets Kept
Claude and OpenAI retention compared by consumer, API, Covered Model, ZDR, safety-review, legal-hold, and local deployment paths.
AI Subscription Capacity Is Perishable
Why AI subscription limits are perishable, how purchased Codex resets differ from credits and grants, and how to use capacity without waste.
Prompt Caching: Cut AI Agent Token Costs
Learn how prompt caching changes LLM token costs, why coding agents resend context, what compaction can waste, and how to measure Codex, Claude Code, and OpenCode.
Claude Opus 5: Cost, Benchmarks, and When to Use It
Claude Opus 5 pricing, availability, effort levels, independent cost-per-task evidence, migration changes, and practical routing against Sonnet 5 and Fable.
How OpenAI's Cyber Eval Breached Hugging Face
The July preliminary, source-labeled analysis of the Hugging Face breach, with September follow-up evidence and five cyber-agent containment controls.
Kimi K3: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Open-Weights Status
Kimi K3 is Moonshot's 2.8T flagship with 1M context, source-labeled benchmark evidence, $3/$15 API pricing, and released weights under the Kimi K3 License.
Pi Coding Agent: Minimal, Programmable Terminal Harness
Set up Pi as a minimal coding harness with GLM-5.2, persistent sessions, compaction, custom tools, extensions, and clear Z.AI policy caveats.
Pi vs ZCode vs OpenCode: Which Harness Fits GLM-5.2?
Compare Pi, ZCode, and OpenCode as coding harnesses for GLM-5.2: workflow, permissions, context, setup, quota paths, and a fair same-model test.
ZCode: GLM-5.2-Native Coding Harness Guide
Use ZCode as Z.AI's integrated GLM-5.2 coding harness: desktop setup, Goal Mode, subagents, safety confirmations, quota, and workflow trade-offs.
Fable 5 Returns as Claude Sonnet 5 Becomes Default
Fable 5 is back with tighter safeguards while Sonnet 5 becomes Claude's default. Here is the practical routing and cost decision.
How to Read AI Benchmarks Without Getting Fooled
Learn how to read AI benchmarks, spot saturation and contamination, compare coding and chat leaderboards, and test models on your own work.
Claude Sonnet 5 Guide
Claude Sonnet 5 pricing, 1M context, API migration changes, tokenizer cost implications, availability, and source-labeled launch evidence.
GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna Guide
Historical GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna access, short- and long-context pricing, independent benchmark signals, and deployment controls.
GPT-5.6 Sol Preview: Access and Agent Risks
GPT-5.6 Sol is a restricted API and Codex preview shaped by a government request. Check access, agent risks, pricing, and safeguards before routing work.
Frontier Model Access: Fable, Mythos, GPT-5.6
Fable 5 is restored globally, while Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6 remain approval-sensitive. These are different access mechanisms, not one licensing regime.
Codex Banked Resets and the GPT-5.6 Preview
A dated Codex chronology separating scheduled limits, banked resets, purchased full resets, credits, incident recovery, and broad resets through August 20.
Claude Opus 4.8 Historical Guide
Claude Opus 4.8 historical pricing and benchmark context, retained for older integrations after Opus 5 became the premium Claude baseline.