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Issue #7 · July 25, 2026 · ~5 min read →
Frontier performance, half the price
- Signal: four vendors in five days, all priced on cost per finished task
- Tool: Claude Opus 5 — a hands-on look on real code
- MVP idea: cost-per-task receipts for your agent runs
Issue #6 · July 18, 2026 · ~5 min read →
Open weights went frontier this week
- Signal: Kimi K3's 2.8T vs Murati's Inkling — "open weights" stopped meaning one thing
- Tool: Kimi K3 via the API — a first hands-on look
- MVP idea: a correction-data logger for coding sessions
Issue #5 · July 11, 2026 · ~5 min read →
Four coding models in one week
- Signal: GPT-5.6 in three tiers, Grok 4.5 at $2 — list price stopped being comparable
- Tool: Grok 4.5 inside Cursor — a hands-on verdict
- MVP idea: a cost-per-task meter for coding agents
Issue #4 · July 4, 2026 · ~5 min read →
The week your model became a policy risk
- Signal: Fable 5 returns from a 19-day export-control blackout — and the market hedges
- Tool: Claude Sonnet 5 — near-Opus agentic work at a third of the price
- MVP idea: a model continuity kit — "what's your fallback?"
Issue #3 · June 27, 2026 · ~5 min read →
The week the industry stopped paying for wasted tokens
- Signal: GPT-5.6 lands, but the real shift is the industry unwinding "tokenmaxxing"
- Tool: Google AI Studio Starter Tier — deploy an app with no credit card
- MVP idea: a token-spend co-pilot for small dev teams
Issue #2 · June 20, 2026 · ~5 min read →
Open weights just hit the cheap frontier for coding
- Signal: an open model (GLM-5.2) beats GPT-5.5 on coding at ~1/6 the cost
- Tool: GLM-5.2 vs Kimi K2.7 Code — a hands-on verdict
- MVP idea: codemod-as-a-service built on cheap open models
Issue #1 · June 14, 2026 · ~5 min read →
Apple's on-device AI changes the math for small apps
- Signal: Apple's on-device AI is now free for apps under 2M downloads
- Tool: MiniMax M3 — an honest look at the open frontier model
- MVP idea: a pay-once receipt scanner built on free on-device AI
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