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MODEL — Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 landed on September 1. They are the same underlying model; only the strength of the safeguards differsPRICING — Per-token rates hold at $10/$50 per MTok. What changed is cache reads, cut 75% to $0.25 per MTokCOST — How much that saves depends on your workload: roughly 25% for typical use, up to about 45% for context-heavy agentic work. Worth measuring your own split before quoting a numberBENCH — Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 climbs from 24.7% on Fable 5 to 52.6%. Anthropic also states a standard error of 3.5-4.5 points, which is worth remembering before reading small gaps as realSAFEGUARDS — Sharper cyber safeguards cut interventions in Claude Code sessions by roughly 60% on average. Finding vulnerabilities is now allowed; developing exploits still is notAPI — New API accounts created from today can no longer edit prior context while preserving Claude's thinking transcript. It is an anti-distillation measure, and existing accounts are unaffected for nowMODEL — Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 landed on September 1. They are the same underlying model; only the strength of the safeguards differsPRICING — Per-token rates hold at $10/$50 per MTok. What changed is cache reads, cut 75% to $0.25 per MTokCOST — How much that saves depends on your workload: roughly 25% for typical use, up to about 45% for context-heavy agentic work. Worth measuring your own split before quoting a numberBENCH — Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 climbs from 24.7% on Fable 5 to 52.6%. Anthropic also states a standard error of 3.5-4.5 points, which is worth remembering before reading small gaps as realSAFEGUARDS — Sharper cyber safeguards cut interventions in Claude Code sessions by roughly 60% on average. Finding vulnerabilities is now allowed; developing exploits still is notAPI — New API accounts created from today can no longer edit prior context while preserving Claude's thinking transcript. It is an anti-distillation measure, and existing accounts are unaffected for now
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Cowork/2026-05-28Intermediate

Folding AdMob and Crashlytics into One Morning Check via Cowork Scheduled Tasks — Two-Week Notes

I had been checking AdMob fill rates and Crashlytics surges in two separate dashboards each morning. I folded them into a single Cowork scheduled task. Here are my two-week notes, with the numbers and the friction I ran into.

Claude Code/2026-05-28Advanced

The Morning I Hit Cloudflare Workers' 62 MiB Limit, and the Content Split Architecture I Rebuilt for 5,000 Articles

One morning, an indie developer running 4 AI tech blogs on Cloudflare Workers + Next.js woke up to a deployment that had stopped because articles.json grew large enough to push the Worker bundle past the 62 MiB limit. This is the concrete implementation walkthrough of splitting metadata from HTML, with the build-time and bundle-size numbers observed across the first month.

API & SDK/2026-05-27Advanced

Tail Latency in Scheduled Claude API Workloads: A Three-Layer Guardrail Against Retry Storms

After running six sites in parallel through scheduled Claude API tasks for several months, 14 days of logs revealed three distinct p95/p99 patterns and a retry storm I had been creating from my own client. This is the guardrail design I landed on — jitter, budget, circuit breaker — with the before/after numbers.

Claude AI/2026-05-25Intermediate

Catching AdMob Fill-Rate Drops in the Morning with Claude in Chrome — Two-Week Notes

I kept noticing fill-rate drops only by late afternoon. So I switched to having Claude in Chrome read the AdMob report each morning. Here are my two-week notes, with the numbers and the friction I ran into.

Claude Code/2026-05-24Advanced

Putting an Autonomous Librarian on Top of Claude Code × Obsidian — Operating Notes From Running Four Sites Through a Three-Layer Knowledge OS

Starting from Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki idea, I redesign a Claude Code × Obsidian autonomous knowledge OS against the actual shape of running four AI tech blogs in parallel. The article covers the three-layer storage, ingest/compile Skills, Dataview monitoring, and a weekly audit job — all sized for real production use.

Claude Code/2026-05-24Intermediate

Five Filters I Use Before Wiring a Claude Code Skill Into My Daily Workflow

Public Claude Code Skills keep multiplying. As an indie developer running a few tech blogs through Claude Code, I share the filters that decide which Skills stay in my daily workflow — and which ones I quietly remove after a few days.

Claude AI/2026-05-24Intermediate

One month of weekly AppLovin MAX A/B test reviews with Claude in Chrome

Waterfall A versus B—how do you compare them every week without burning out? Here are my notes from running AppLovin MAX A/B tests across four indie apps with Claude in Chrome handling the weekly roll-up.

Claude AI/2026-05-24Intermediate

Ten Mornings of Letting Claude in Chrome Walk My Search Console Rounds

For ten days I handed a slice of my morning Google Search Console rounds across six properties to Claude in Chrome. Here is what changed in my mornings, written from the perspective of an indie developer running 50M+ download wallpaper apps.

Claude Code/2026-05-23Intermediate

Three Months of Letting Claude Code Handle the Monthly Content Refresh for My Four Wallpaper Apps

Starting in February 2026 I began handing off the monthly content refresh of my wallpaper apps — Beautiful HD Wallpapers and three sibling titles — to Claude Code. After three months I want to share what kinds of judgement I felt comfortable delegating, and where I deliberately kept my own hands on the work.

API & SDK/2026-05-21Advanced

A Morning Digest Agent across App Store Connect, Play Console, Crashlytics, and AdMob — 30 days of running it on Claude Agent SDK

Opening four dashboards each morning across six apps used to eat 30 to 50 minutes of my day. Here is the Claude Agent SDK recipe that compressed it into one email, with the measured numbers from a full month.

Claude AI/2026-05-21Intermediate

Three Weeks of Tuning AdMob Floor Prices with Claude in Chrome

Notes from three weeks of small daily floor-price adjustments across four iOS apps, with Claude in Chrome doing the dashboard rounds and me keeping the judgment calls.

Claude Code/2026-05-20Intermediate

Pruning Custom Subagents in Claude Code: After Six Months, Five Became Two

I built five custom subagents in Claude Code, ran them across six sites for six months, and ended up keeping only two. Here are the notes I took along the way — what worked, what didn't, and how I learned to write subagent descriptions that actually get called.