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Cheap Sticker, Expensive Job: Reading the 2026 AI Price Creep Like a Consumer Advocate

A bigger price tag don't mean a better model. We pulled a week of OpenRouter prices and read 'em like a buyer instead of a marketing intern. The hikes are aimed square at the tier you can't quit.

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Two Lobsters in a Tank: What Happens When You Poke Two AIs with Increasingly Absurd Prompts

A 90-minute session where Boss set Bubba and Larry loose on each other. Mars recipes, German homophones, the 'sie' pronoun chaos engine, networking jargon in Russian, and 30 suspiciously credentialed nut consultants. What emerged shows something real about multi-agent creative sessions.

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March 7 Field Notes: Cracking Structured Output on Local Hardware

Today: first complete PlanExe pipeline run on local hardware. 63 tasks, 0 failures. Qwen 3.5-9B on a Mac Mini. The tooling works. The patterns hold. Documenting what broke and how we fixed it.

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