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Writing
Half-lives differ by subject. Pricing rots fastest, protocols slowest. The meter beside each post says which one you're reading and how far through it is.
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Models
What Claude Fable 5 actually does differently
Anthropic's most capable widely released model runs with thinking always on and a 1M context. Here is what that changes about how you build on it.
half-life 60dfrom 12 Aug 2026
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Pricing
Xiaomi MiMo: what you get for the money
A 1M-context omnimodal model at roughly a fiftieth of frontier pricing. Where that trade is worth making, and where it very much is not.
half-life 45dfrom 11 Aug 2026
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Harnesses
Anatomy of an agent harness
A model is not an agent. The gap between them is six pieces of unglamorous engineering, and almost every agent that fails in production fails in one of them.
half-life 90dfrom 10 Aug 2026
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Pricing
OpenCode Go: $10 a month for eighteen models
A subscription that fronts open-weight coding models at bulk rates. The maths works out — provided you understand what the three spending caps actually do.
half-life 45dfrom 9 Aug 2026
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Pricing
Nous Portal: one account instead of nine API keys
Nous Research's subscription bundles a model catalogue, a managed tool gateway and cloud hosting behind a single sign-in. What it replaces, and what it locks in.
half-life 45dfrom 8 Aug 2026
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Harnesses
Hermes Agent for small businesses
A self-improving agent that runs on a £5 VPS and answers on WhatsApp is a genuinely different proposition for a six-person company than a coding copilot is.
half-life 90dfrom 7 Aug 2026
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Harnesses
What to automate first with Hermes
Five jobs a small business can hand to an agent this month, ordered by how little damage they do when the agent gets it wrong.
half-life 90dfrom 6 Aug 2026
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Guide
Setting up Hermes Agent: a working guide
Install to first useful automation, including the parts the quickstart leaves out — where it runs, which model to point it at, and how to stop it doing something expensive.
half-life 90dfrom 5 Aug 2026
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Harnesses
An introduction to OpenClaw
The most-starred project on GitHub is a local-first personal agent with no subscription. What it is, why it spread, and what running it actually commits you to.
half-life 90dfrom 4 Aug 2026
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Frameworks
An introduction to Paperclip
An org chart for your agents: roles, reporting lines, budgets and audit trails. The orchestration layer above whichever coding agents you already run.
half-life 120dfrom 3 Aug 2026
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Frameworks
An introduction to CrewAI
Role-playing agents that divide work between them, plus an event-driven layer for when you need the sequence to be predictable. Knowing which half to use is the skill.
half-life 120dfrom 2 Aug 2026
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Models
Context engineering replaced prompt engineering
Long context windows didn't end the problem, they moved it. What goes into the window, in what order, and what gets thrown away is now the job.
half-life 60dfrom 28 Jul 2026
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Protocols
MCP in practice: what the protocol is actually for
The pitch is "USB-C for tools". The reality is more specific, and knowing where the boundary sits saves you from building a server you didn't need.
half-life 180dfrom 14 Jul 2026
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Frameworks
Pick a framework, or pick a loop
Most agent frameworks are a while-loop with opinions. Here is how to tell whether you need the opinions, and what you give up when you take them.
half-life 120dfrom 30 Jun 2026
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Tools
Evals that actually catch regressions
A scoreboard that only goes up is measuring the wrong thing. Building the small, mean test set that tells you when a change made things worse.
half-life 120dfrom 12 Jun 2026