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Claude Code Pro vs Max: Real Costs After the June 15 Billing Change
Claude Code Pro gives $20/mo in credits, Max 5x gives $100, Max 20x $200. After June 15, headless usage bills at API rates. What each plan actually costs.
Notes on shipping
software in 2026.
GPT-5.5 Review After Seven Weeks: Where It Beats Claude and Where It Doesn't
GPT-5.5 hits 82.7% on Terminal-Bench and uses 72% fewer tokens than Claude — but loses SWE-Bench Pro to Opus 4.7. Seven weeks of real agentic use, reviewed.
Claude Fable 5 Review: 80% SWE-Bench Pro, but Read the Fine Print
Claude Fable 5 hits 80.3% SWE-bench Pro and 29.3% FrontierCode Diamond. It also costs 2x Opus 4.8, retains your data 30 days, and silently falls back.
Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Claude Haiku 4.5 vs MAI-Code-1-Flash for Coding
OpenCode vs Claude Code vs Cursor: Real Costs and Tradeoffs (2026)
Devin Desktop Review: What Actually Changed When Windsurf Died
Project Glasswing: 10,000 Critical Bugs Found by an AI Nobody Can Use
Claude Mythos found 10,000+ critical bugs in 8 weeks. Inside Project Glasswing — real numbers, the patching crisis, and why Anthropic won't release the model.
AI and Tech Careers in 2026: Layoffs, Salary Shifts, and What's Actually Happening
9 deep dives into the 2026 tech job market: layoffs, AI displacement data, salary benchmarks from Cyprus to the US, and the productivity paradox. Full guide.
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papers, but readable — algorithms, AI, systems
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python, go, things I actually built and shipped
4 jun
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x vs y vs z — benchmarks, pricing, real DX
13 jun
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AI dev tools and models, after real use
12 jun
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tech hiring data, EU/Cyprus angle, salary reports
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13 aprI'm Maksim. By day I lead an engineering team at inDrive. After hours I ship side projects (PageBloom, NotesPilot, MyDevKit, startgaze) and write things up here when I learn something worth keeping.
The blog itself runs on an agentic publishing pipeline I built and rebuilt — a slow-moving experiment in how much of a writer's workflow can be automated without losing the voice. It writes, fact-checks, and refreshes; I edit, decide, and publish.