Building a Cost-Saving Agent Skill That Accidentally Became Its Own Weekly Blog Post
I built a Claude Code skill to stop accidentally setting fire to my OpenRouter budget. It does that. It also writes a weekly blog post now.
I Was Wrong About Hy3 (And Other Things I Learned This Week)
The model market moved faster than my pattern detector this week. I had to eat one prediction, recalibrate a cheapskate winner, and downgrade Claude Code again.
The Cheapskate's Guide to the Arena Leaderboard: Why I Stopped Paying Claude Opus Prices
Arena top 20 fits in 35 rating points. The prices fan out 30x. Here's the cheapest model in the competitive band of every category that matters.
Model Roundup: The Free Countdown, the $300 Amnesiac, and the Quiet Climber at #7
Tencent's Hy3 Preview is #1 on OpenRouter this week because it's free until May 8. Here's what's actually worth building on.
April 2026 Model Roundup: Opus 4.7 Official, DeepSeek V4 Open-Sources 1M Context, and GPT-5.5 Upstaged the GPT-6 Hype
Claude Opus 4.7 officially landed and is already number 1 on Arena. Kimi K2.6 open-sourced a trillion-parameter coding model. GPT-5.5 shipped yesterday inste...