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Why I Cancelled My Claude Code and ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions (for Side Projects)
Last week I posted a simple tweet and it exploded (300k+ views).
I said I cancelled both Claude Code Pro and ChatGPT Pro.
The replies were gold — some agreed instantly, others called Kimi dogshit compared to Opus. Exactly the kind of real...
Power Plants and Steam Engines: How SDKs Will Solve the Compute Crisis
Hi friends,
This is an off-beat mid-week newsletter, but I had to send it — last week was a blast:
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Zed version 1
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Warp open sourced
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Cursor SDK
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OpenCode hit 150K GitHub stars
AI companies, tools, and harnesses are rac...
I don't know — but here's how I'd find out
Hi Friend,
The past few weeks here were all agentic coding — agent teams, mandatory Reads, prompt structure, Skills & MCPs. The pace can make it feel like everyone is shipping AI-native pipelines while you’re stuck.
You’re not.
I wrote t...
How to write coding agent teams that actually work
Key Takeaway
A coding agent team beats a single agent — but only if each specialist loads its rules at turn one. “Available” tools get skipped; mandatory Reads land.
Three specialist reviewers (inngest, general, test) dispatched in par...
Nothing Failed. That’s the Problem.
Your agent optimizes for green, not for truth.
Context
In my last issue — Your AI Tests Are Probably Useless — I showed why AI tests fail by duplicating production logic.
That’s step one.
But even without duplication, your tests can...
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