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An App Built for One: Why a Devpost Skill Pack Made Me Spec It Anyway

Earl Grey3d ago • 11 min read

An App Built for One: Why a Devpost Skill Pack Made Me Spec It Anyway

My wife lost her yellow book. So I built her an app. TL;DR: Cuenta is a small app for my wife's...

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State of AI Instruction Quality: Files With Persona Lines Score Lower

Gábor Mészáros4d ago • 5 min read

State of AI Instruction Quality: Files With Persona Lines Score Lower

Main instruction files that tell the agent who it is score lower than the rest, at every file...

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Claude Code mods: Brickfall, a brick breaker that's loud without getting in the way

Gábor MészárosOct 16, 2026 • 4 min read

Claude Code mods: Brickfall, a brick breaker that's loud without getting in the way

After the Minesweeper and Doom, the third game in the arcade is a brick breaker after Arkanoid. The....

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State of AI Instruction Quality: Repos Split on Co-Authored-By

Gábor Mészáros3d ago • 7 min read

State of AI Instruction Quality: Repos Split on Co-Authored-By

The 10,000 most-starred repos split on whether their coding agent should sign its commits. About 40...

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Your AI judge might be grading luck, not decisions

Sara BezjakOct 16, 2026 • 11 min read

Your AI judge might be grading luck, not decisions

A support agent is about to email 8,412 people. Its instructions say to send a test email first, and...

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Stop running `claude login` on every machine — share your Claude Code accounts between your devices

Bargan Constantin4d ago • 8 min read

Stop running `claude login` on every machine — share your Claude Code accounts between your devices

I build ccdeck, the open-source tool this post uses. The step-by-step guides behind it are on...

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Sending text as images cut my Claude tokens by up to 81%. It also started inventing numbers.

Johmisking2d ago • 3 min read

Sending text as images cut my Claude tokens by up to 81%. It also started inventing numbers.

There is a trick going around for cutting Claude Code bills: render bulky context (system prompt,...

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MCP vs function calling: which one your AI agent actually needs (2026)

Joan Comadran2d ago • 10 min read

MCP vs function calling: which one your AI agent actually needs (2026)

MCP vs function calling, as of October 2026: they aren't rivals. Function calling is how the model a...

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Claude Generated 318,484 Scorpion Toxin Protein Designs, With 17 Lab-Validated Binders

Ali Farhat3d ago • 5 min read

Claude Generated 318,484 Scorpion Toxin Protein Designs, With 17 Lab-Validated Binders

Anthropic has reported a closed-loop protein-design campaign in which Claude generated 318,484...

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Claude’s Scorpion-Toxin Binder Study Marks a Measured Step Forward for Protein Design

Ali Farhat3d ago • 5 min read

Claude’s Scorpion-Toxin Binder Study Marks a Measured Step Forward for Protein Design

Anthropic has published results from an exploratory protein-design campaign in which Claude generate...

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How to set up Claude Code for your whole team (not just your own laptop)

AI Workspace Builder4d ago • 4 min read

How to set up Claude Code for your whole team (not just your own laptop)

Most developers who try Claude Code start the same way: open a repo, ask for a change, and get...

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I built a lead finder that refuses to guess

Vaibhav Verma6d ago • 5 min read

I built a lead finder that refuses to guess

Ask any AI model for a list of companies to sell to and you'll get one in seconds. It will look...

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What did that Claude Code session actually cost? Spend, quota and history in one place

Bargan Constantin2d ago • 5 min read

What did that Claude Code session actually cost? Spend, quota and history in one place

I build ccdeck. The step-by-step version of this post is at ccdeck.dev/guides/cost-and-quota. ...

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I force-quit Chrome with 29 tabs open. Chrome restored 0. Tabby restored all 29.

taewooOct 16, 2026 • 4 min read

I force-quit Chrome with 29 tabs open. Chrome restored 0. Tabby restored all 29.

I had 29 tabs open. I force-quit Chrome instantly (a SIGKILL, the same as a real crash), with no...

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When Coding Agent Guides Help, Hurt, or Do Nothing

Valentina Koniukhova2d ago • 10 min read

When Coding Agent Guides Help, Hurt, or Do Nothing

Should I delete my CLAUDE.md? Before doing that, I wanted to know which parts an agent still needs.....

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Moving from Claude Haiku 4.5 to 5.5: what changed on the same 100 prompts

hiro matsu5d ago • 5 min read

Moving from Claude Haiku 4.5 to 5.5: what changed on the same 100 prompts

On October 29, Claude Haiku 4.5 disappears from the model picker in the Claude apps, and Haiku 5.5.....

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How to Run Claude‑Powered AI Code Review in CodeBuild: A Step‑By‑Step Guide

Dinesh_gowtham2d ago • 9 min read

How to Run Claude‑Powered AI Code Review in CodeBuild: A Step‑By‑Step Guide

CI pipelines catch syntax errors, but they still let subtle logic bugs slip through. Pair Claude wit...

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I kept missing Claude Code's permission prompts, so I built a desktop around it

Fred 🍓1d ago • 2 min read

I kept missing Claude Code's permission prompts, so I built a desktop around it

I usually have two or three Claude Code sessions open: a frontend, an API, sometimes a side project....

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Why your MCP servers are secretly eating 30,000 tokens per turn (and how to tree-shake them)

Christian Frascogna4d ago • 2 min read

Why your MCP servers are secretly eating 30,000 tokens per turn (and how to tree-shake them)

If you use Claude Code, OpenAI Codex CLI, or Cursor with 4–5 MCP servers connected (GitHub,...

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Set up a first invoice chasing workflow in Claude

Or EmergyOct 16, 2026 • 5 min read

Set up a first invoice chasing workflow in Claude

Updated October 15, 2026: the October 6 change to cloud tasks has happened; dates now read in the...

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Every night at 3 a.m., real coding agents test my plugin on three operating systems

Evgeny Shevtsov4d ago • 5 min read

Every night at 3 a.m., real coding agents test my plugin on three operating systems

My unit tests use transcripts I saved last month. The coding agents my plugin runs inside have been....

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An Infostealer Now Grabs .claude.json and Codex's config.toml. Check What Yours Hold

Gabriel Anhaia6d ago • 7 min read

An Infostealer Now Grabs .claude.json and Codex's config.toml. Check What Yours Hold

Symantec says Aoki now steals Claude, Codex, Cursor and Copilot credentials. Find the tokens your ag...

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Claude Code's Sandbox Is an npm Package. Run srt Yourself and Watch What It Blocks

Gabriel Anhaia4d ago • 9 min read

Claude Code's Sandbox Is an npm Package. Run srt Yourself and Watch What It Blocks

Claude Code's /sandbox is built on @anthropic-ai/sandbox-runtime. Install srt, run one probe plain a...

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Claude Code Hit Its Usage Limit Mid-Task. Hand the Same Worktree to Codex in 4 Commands

Gabriel Anhaia5d ago • 9 min read

Claude Code Hit Its Usage Limit Mid-Task. Hand the Same Worktree to Codex in 4 Commands

Claude Code stopped halfway through a branch. Commit a checkpoint, write HANDOFF.md from git, start ...

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