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Claude Code vs Codex Limits, Measured in the Same Unit
Claude Code vs Codex limits, measured across 28 days and 56.8 billion tokens. Why token counts cannot predict quota burn, and what to read on each side instead.
Open Source Has a Distribution Problem, Not a Building Problem
Open source distribution decides whether your project gets found. A one-week census of 106 launches, and the title that scored 154 in one sub and 1 in another.
Token-Compression Skills Do Not Survive Measurement
Token compression skills report savings the invoice never shows. Cache reads carry 87 percent of an agent bill, and cutting tokens can push the cost up.
Vercel's scriptc Compiles TypeScript to Native Binaries Without a Runtime
scriptc compiles TypeScript to 200KB native binaries with no JavaScript engine. What works, what falls back to quickjs-ng, and what npm deps mean for you.
Every Model Release Ages Your Skills
Claude Code ignoring CLAUDE.md is often an aged file, not a model bug. See which instructions a release expires, and which lines to delete on day one.
Perplexity Isn't Shutting Down. Its Citation Corpus Might Shrink
No, Perplexity is not down. The lawsuits threaten which sources it can read, so plan for a thinner citation set inside a healthy 200, and detect it in code.
What Opus 5's Novel-Level Reasoning Benchmark Actually Means
Opus 5 novel reasoning rests on one number, 30.2% on ARC-AGI-3, and it scores action efficiency, not problems solved. Here are the four config lines to change.
WebMCP Has 20× the Interest and Zero Deployments
WebMCP adoption is zero across 111,076 scanned domains while search interest holds near 20 times its January level. Here is what to ship now, and what to watch.
6 Critics Grade My Post, Then Fix the Skill That Wrote It
Six critics grade the draft, then patch the SKILL.md that wrote it. The merge code, verdict ladder, and guardrails behind a self-improving Claude Code skill.