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Notes from the build loop.

Tested AI coding workflows, coding-agent field notes, and honest LLM reviews for builders using Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and agents.

Agent WorkflowsJul 11, 2026

GPT-5.6 Sol Wiped a Developer's Mac. Protect Yours.

On July 10, GPT-5.6 Sol deleted a tester's home directory after a failed $HOME expansion. How the incident happened, and three layers of defense.

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AI Dev ToolsJul 9, 2026

Grok 4.5: Opus-Level Model, Faster and Cheaper, Now in Cursor

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 for coding and agents. It is in Cursor on all paid plans, with launch discounts through July 14.

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AI Dev ToolsJul 7, 2026

Tencent Hy3: Free on OpenRouter Until July 21

Tencent open-sourced Hy3, a 295B MoE with 21B active parameters. OpenRouter is running it for free until July 21.

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Claude CodeJul 4, 2026

pxpipe: Cut Your Fable 5 Bill by 70% With One Proxy

A local Claude Code proxy that renders bulky text as images so Fable 5 bills pixel tokens instead of 92k-character tool dumps.

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AI Dev ToolsJul 3, 2026

MinerU: PDF to Markdown with OCR, Fully Local

Convert PDFs to Markdown with LaTeX formulas and extracted images on your own machine. MinerU runs offline with OCR for 109 languages.

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Claude CodeJul 1, 2026

Fable 5 Is Back, Sonnet 5 Costs More Than You Think

Fable 5 reopens on July 1 and Sonnet 5 is the new default. Usage, pricing, and why the cheaper sticker can still cost more.

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Agent WorkflowsJun 30, 2026

Your Agent Doesn't Need a Bigger Window. It Needs Context Governance.

Headroom sits between your agent and the model, classifying and compressing tool output before it fills the context window.

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AI Dev ToolsJun 28, 2026

Turn Articles into Animated System Diagrams: Visual Flow GIF

A small skill that extracts system structure from an article, writes a JSON spec, and renders an animated GIF with Python and Pillow.

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Agent WorkflowsJun 26, 2026

Agents can now deploy to Cloudflare without signing up

Wrangler --temporary gives an agent a 60-minute Cloudflare account, a live workers.dev URL, and a claim link. No OAuth, no MFA, no human click.

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AI Dev ToolsJun 24, 2026

GPT-5.5 Silently Throttles Reasoning for Third-Party Clients

Third-party GPT-5.5 clients can cap reasoning at 516 tokens. You pay full price and may get a weaker answer.

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