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Claude Fable 5 vs Opus 4.8: Is Double the Price Worth It?
Fable 5 costs 10 dollars per million input tokens against 5 for Opus 4.8, output is 50 vs 25 SWE-Bench Pro gap is 11.1 points,...
Claude Fable 5 Is Here: The First Public Mythos-Class Model
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 on June 9, 2026, the first Mythos-class model anyone can use Pricing doubles Opus 4.8: 10 dollars per million input...
The 1M Context Window vs Prompt Caching: When to Use Which
1M context costs full price on every query, caching cuts repeated tokens to 1/10 Use 1M for one-shot deep dives, caching for repeated calls against...
What I Run as Cron Jobs in My Claude Stack: 6 Automations
6 cron jobs run my studio publishing pipeline on a 2 EUR/month server Auto-syndicate posts to 4 channels at 09:00 daily Blog-index rebuild runs every...
Building Multi-Agent Workflows With Claude: A Solo Studio Playbook
Three parallel writer agents drafting at once cut my blog turnaround from 6 hours to 90 minutes Research agents run in parallel then merge through...
5 Claude Code Slash Commands I Built and Use Daily
/publish replaced a 40-line shell script and 6 manual steps /sync keeps 3 platforms aligned from one source file /qa catches broken links and word-count...
Why I Run Claude Code Plugins for Brand Voice Enforcement
A brand-voice plugin catches em-dashes and banned words before publish, not after Plugins run on hooks automatically, skills wait until you ask My checker blocks...
Opus 4.8 vs Sonnet vs Haiku: How I Route Work in 2026
Which Claude model for which job in 2026, with Opus 4.8's flat price, cheaper Fast mode, and abstention as the deciding factors. My routing table.
Opus 4.8 in Practice: A Real Coding Session
A field report from one real agentic coding session on Opus 4.8: where it asked instead of guessing, caught its own bug, and held the...
Claude Code Hooks I Ship in Every Project: 6 Patterns
Brand-check hook catches forbidden words before they reach a draft Spacing and font hooks fix layout drift across 40+ templates A11y and SEO hooks block...
Claude Opus 4.8 Is Here: Everything That Changed
Claude Opus 4.8 landed May 28 with a 4x drop in unremarked code bugs, a 3x cheaper Fast mode, Dynamic Workflows, and the same price...
5 MCP Servers I Built This Year and What They Replaced
Built 5 MCP servers in 2026, retired 4 daemons and a Zapier flow Catalog and blog-index MCPs saved roughly 9 hours per week Render-queue MCP...