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AI Coding Tools
What AI coding tools do to real throughput, measured rather than claimed.
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The model you build on is rented. Price the risk.
Anthropic's two newest models went dark worldwide for 19 days on an export-control order — zero notice, and the provider didn't choose the timing either. Most teams price that risk at zero. Here is what it actually costs, and the seam that makes a swap a config change.
July 15, 2026 · 7 min read
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GLM 5.2 against the shipping market: where the first frontier-adjacent open model wins, and where it doesn't
GLM 5.2 is the first open-weight model in the frontier coding conversation. Real benchmarks, cost-per-task math, and where it wins against Claude, GPT-5.5, and DeepSeek.
July 3, 2026 · 18 min read
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Do AI Coding Tools Actually Make Developers Faster? The 2026 Evidence
The only randomized trial on AI coding tools measured a 19% slowdown — while developers believed they were 20% faster. Here is what the evidence shows.
May 27, 2026 · 10 min read