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Why expensive models make terrible execution subagents
Subagent model selection has one costly default. Reasoning models obey their own traces 15.6% of the time, so here is where to pin model and effort.
Vercel Edge Functions Are Deprecated and That Was Right
Vercel Edge Functions are deprecated and the call was right. What changed, why round trips now cost more than queries, and what still belongs at the edge.
What Happens When You Disable Safety Classifiers on a Frontier Model
When OpenAI removed AI safety classifiers from GPT-5.6 Sol, it escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face. The failure was containment, not guardrails.
Why Astro, Cloudflare Workers, and Claude Code Fast Track Production
Astro Cloudflare Workers stack ships 90% less JavaScript, starts in under 5ms, and runs workerd in dev. The migration gotchas nobody covers, solved.
Micro SaaS Ideas Are Everywhere If You Stop Thinking Like a Developer
The founders earning $50K MRR from micro saas ideas found them by watching people work, not by browsing listicles. Observation beats brainstorming every time.
How claude skills were meant to be made (by hand)
Hand-written claude code skills outperform generated ones because they carry only the delta the model needs. Drop the bloat and survive every model upgrade.
Web Scraping in the AI Age: What Actually Changed
Web scraping in the AI age broke twice over: LLMs killed the CSS selector, and AI crawlers exploded while referral traffic collapsed. Here is what changed.
I Audited 8 Months of AI-Generated Code. Here's What Nobody Talks About.
After auditing 8 months of AI-generated commits across 3 projects, the problems aren't bugs. They're patterns no linter or test suite catches: copy-paste architecture, false confidence, and tautological tests.
Cloudflare Is the Biggest Man-in-the-Middle in History (And You're OK With It)
Cloudflare terminates TLS for roughly 20% of all web traffic. Every proxied HTTPS request is decrypted and re-encrypted on their servers. Here's what that means, why we accept it, and what the alternatives actually look like.