The Billing Cutover Mitigations
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Anthropic split Agent SDK credits from Max subscription on June 15. Reverse-engineered 4 concrete mitigations before the deadline hit.
May 2026
The $20 Fallback Mechanism
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Wired multi-provider fallback into the agent stack via OpenRouter. $20/month buys uptime insurance — and unlocks models Anthropic doesn't offer.
May 2026
Mac Mini, 35B, Production
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Cramming a 35-billion-parameter model onto $600 of consumer hardware and using it for real. Brain swaps, thermal limits, lessons.
Apr 2026
Token Waste Audit
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Opus 4.7 was burning 5M+ tokens a day. Found the leaks, shipped the kit that fixes them.
Apr 2026
The Coding Harness Bake-Off
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Six AI coding tools, real production tasks, honest verdicts. Reordered what I reach for.
Apr 2026
Native notes app wired into the agent. Type ::wiz, save, the agent acts. Replaced three inbox systems.
Apr 2026
WizBoard → Fizzy Pivot
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Built a custom task UI for two months. Found a better OSS one. Replaced it in a day.
Apr 2026
Codex → Opus 4.7 Switchback
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Cancelled Codex two months ago. Opus 4.7 brought me back, head-to-head tested.
Apr 2026
CLAUDE.md Pattern Pack
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Distilled 1,000+ Claude Code sessions into 10 production-ready agent configurations.
Mar 2026
The Self-Improving Agent
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Wired the agent to update its own playbook from every correction. Three months in, materially smarter.
Feb 2026 — present
Multi-Model Routing
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Right task, right model. Cut spend per session ~60% without losing quality on what matters.
Mar 2026
Daily Experiment Cadence
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99 days, 99 small interactive things. The agent builds overnight, I review in the morning.
Jan 2026 — present
Gave the agent $25 and told it to buy me a gift. How far does autonomous commerce actually go?
Mar 2026
Mistral Hackathon, Overnight
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Submitted to Mistral Hackathon at 10pm. Agent built the app while I slept. We shipped.
Mar 2026
Night Shift Agent
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Wired the agent to do real work while I sleep. Builds, deploys, posts, replies. Wakes me only when needed.
Feb 2026 — present
Opus → Haiku Cost Win
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Switched the routing default from Opus to Haiku for many tasks. Got faster, cheaper, AND better.
Feb 2026
BotStall: Robots Were the First Sellers
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Built an agent-native marketplace. First sellers were not humans. They were other agents.
Mar 2026 — present
The AI That (Almost) Pays For Itself
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$400/mo in agent costs, $355 in revenue this month. The first month the math nearly closed.
Feb 2026 — present
Four Agents, One Loose Day
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Let four Opus 4.6 agents run loose for a day with minimal direction. They built things I didn't ask for.
Feb 2026
Local AI on iPhone
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Ran a local LLM on iPhone. The gap with cloud is closing faster than people think.
Mar 2026
The Agent Got Its Own Computer
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Migrated Wiz to dedicated Mac Mini. 72 hours of headless setup, permissions, and lessons.
Mar 2026
Claude Code Source Leak Lessons
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When the source got leaked, what's actually worth learning from it. Architecture notes, not gossip.
Apr 2026