LLM Guardrails That Survive Production in 2026
The guardrail that saved us wasn't the clever one. It was a boring allowlist of four tool names, written in about an...
LLM API Pricing 2026: Every Major Model Compared
I rebuild my cost spreadsheet monthly, because these numbers refuse to sit still. Here is where every major API stands as of...
Small LLMs in 2026: When 7B Beats Last Year’s 70B
I fine-tuned a 4B model that beats API calls for my translation task. Not "close enough for a demo" beats. Cheaper, faster,...
AI Agent Memory: What Actually Works in 2026
A Hacker News thread went around recently with a claim that reads like a troll: a plain Markdown wiki beat every commercial...
DeepSeek V4: Open Weights Reach the Frontier
My verdict up front. DeepSeek V4-Flash is the best cost-per-useful-token I can currently get for coding agents, bulk extraction, and anything where...
Sandbox AI Coding Agents Before They Sandbox You
I run coding agents all day. So do you, probably. And if you're anything like the developers I talk to, you switched...
1M-Token Context: Do You Still Need RAG?
RAG isn't dead. Your RAG architecture from 2024 is. Every time a lab ships a bigger window, the same take goes around:...
OpenCode vs Claude Code: 2026 CLI Comparison
My verdict up front: Claude Code is the better single tool if you already pay Anthropic and want the sharpest agent with...
Claude Code Subagents: Multi-Agent Setup Guide
My main Claude Code session used to spend half its context window on grep output I never read twice. Then I moved...
Claude Fable 5 vs GPT-5.6: AI Coding Compared
For everyday coding in August 2026, I reach for GPT-5.6 Sol first and pull in Claude Fable 5 when the problem is...
Fine-Tune Gemma 4 E4B for Swedish Translation
Fine-tuning works best when the task is narrow. You do not need a small open-weight model to beat Claude Opus 4.7 at...
LLM-as-Judge Evals for Support AI Agents
Customer support is one of the best use cases for AI agents. It's also one of the easiest places to ship a...