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LLM Pricing Is Weird: A Practical Guide to Picking the Right Model for the Job

If you are trying to bring AI into real business workflows, the hard part usually is not finding a model that can do something impressive in a demo....

Essay · May 03 · 18 min

This Week in AI: GPT 5.5, Agent Hype, and the New Tool War

This week felt like one of those moments where the AI industry collectively stomped on the gas and then looked surprised that the speedometer moved....

Essay · Apr 25 · 9 min

This Week in AI: Agent Apps Everywhere, Opus 4.7 Drama, and the Open-Model Counterattack

This week in AI felt less like a model release cycle and more like a land grab for the interface layer. The biggest story wasn’t just who shipped a...

Essay · Apr 18 · 10 min

This Week in AI: Claude's Source Code Hits the Streets, JavaScript Gets Backdoored, and GitHub Puts Ads in Your PRs

Covering content from Matt Wolfe, Fireship, ThePrimeagen, Two Minute Papers, and freeCodeCamp What a week. If you blinked, you missed Anthropic...

Essay · Apr 04 · 8 min

Teaching Your AI Agent to Actually Remember Things

A comprehensive guide to fixing memory problems in OpenClaw (and similar AI agent frameworks) You know that feeling when you explain something to...

Essay · Mar 01 · 7 min