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Open Console Chrome with Ctrl Shift J not I
Open console chrome with Ctrl+Shift+J, not last panel. Land on a working prompt for this tab, skip Elements, and stop clicking the Console tab after F12.
Sonnet 5 discount was a tokenizer change
Sonnet 5 tokenizer math. The $2 sticker offsets most extra English tokens versus 4.6. Recount your prompt before you treat that sticker as 33 percent off.
The Claude student plan is not a checkout option
The claude student plan is not sitting in billing. Check campus IT for Education SSO first, then pay retail Pro only if the school never bought seats.
VS Code assisted approvals let the model skip the prompt
Turn on VS Code assisted approvals so Copilot skips low-risk tool prompts on long tasks. Pin Copilot on the agent host, pick Assisted, keep a hard ask.
Cursor is shrinking while the terminal eats the IDE
Cursor shrinking is the 18 to 12 percent work-usage drop while CLIs rose. Keep VS Code or JetBrains. Put the agent in a CLI you already run this quarter.
The Claude Code 50 percent weekly bump is the product
Claude Code weekly limits have been 50 percent higher since May. Budget the standard bar now, since the extra is still a dated promo with a printed cliff.
OpenAI cut Sol 20 percent and left the plan alone
GPT-5.6 Sol pricing dropped over 20 percent on API and credits. Plus, Pro, and Business included limits stayed put. Budget the overage, not a bigger plan.
Concise mode hides the only review the human gets
Claude Code Concise skips the preamble that was the live look at agent intent. Leave it off the sitting that becomes a PR, keep Default when a human will merge.
Claude Code design mockups land before the code
Claude Code design mockups land before the code. Keep Main.dc.html in git so the order survives the session. The hosted canvas is a scrape you may not share.