skip to content- 2026-10-03
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ChatGPT Dots, Work or Codex: What Should You Use?
A dot flagged two competing fixes. Use the case to choose Chat, Work, Codex or Dots, set a bounded coordination task, and check usage before adding a bill.
- 2026-08-11
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Agents Running Agents: Codex Meets OpenCode and DeepSeek
A hello-world DeepSeek request became a safer agent-to-agent runner, a dated route preflight, and a Cost per Accepted Result protocol.
- 2026-08-11
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How to Reduce LLM Costs: The Practical Playbook
Stop overpaying for AI: check app vs web prices, cold caches, reset timing, plan limits and retries. A practical cost-saving playbook with a monthly audit.
- 2026-07-26
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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.
- 2026-07-02
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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.
- 2026-07-02
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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.
- 2026-07-02
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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.
- 2026-07-02
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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.
- 2026-02-17
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UltraThink → UltraQuiet: Why Devs Want Receipts
Claude Code started hiding file paths and search details behind Ctrl+O. Here's a working fix: the AGENTS.md Audit Ledger pattern.
- 2026-02-11
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AIHackers 2023 Wayback Recovery: Evidence Ledger
Concrete Wayback timestamps, replay results, and preservation limits for five known AIHackers legacy routes and their canonical destinations.
- 2026-02-11
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The 20-Minute Blog: A Provenance-Corrected History
An annotated recovery of AIHackers' 2023 publishing test: ChatGPT and Midjourney supported a ZimmWriter draft made with text-davinci-003.
- 2026-02-07
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AGENTS.md: One File That Makes Agents Behave
A practical guide to AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md—why they work, how to write them, and copy-paste templates for Markdown projects, Python, and TypeScript.
- 2026-02-07
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AGENTS.md: What Actually Works (And What Doesn't)
Guide to writing AGENTS.md files, drawing on production usage and vendor documentation, with an October 2026 correction to an unverified Vercel attribution.
- 2026-02-04
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AIHackers Vibe Coding History: 2023 Archive Review
A source-labeled history of five legacy AIHackers routes: four recovered 2023 bodies, one unresolved page, and what the artifacts support.
- 2026-02-03
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Codex vs Claude Code vs Cursor
Current workflow comparison for Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor, with GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 model evidence separated from tool features.
- 2026-02-01
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OpenCode: Providers, Zen, Permissions, and GLM-5.2
Current OpenCode guide for its open-source coding agent, optional Zen gateway, dated limited-time free model roster, paid DeepSeek routes, BYO providers, permissions, and integrations.
- 2026-01-23
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AI Research: What It Gets Right and Wrong
What AI does well, what it gets wrong, and a safe workflow for research.