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  • The End of Free LLMs: Pricing Reality and Market Impact on Software Engineering

    This is speculation and transcript via Claude Sonnet 4 starting with “once the ‘free’ or loss leader phase of the LLM wave has ended, what is the likely pricing for a single user assuming the same allocation levels” For more of blog post style, see The End of the AI Gold Rush: Why Your Next…

  • Thanks, Claude, but Ruby is not Rails

    Signs of Rails creep in the code I spent some of today debugging an error that suddenly started appearing in CI runs for unit tests: Having prior experiences with code that was written for a Ruby only project but happened to rely on a Rails dependency, I pretty quickly knew why it was breaking: NilClass#present?…

  • Claude is great for writing Powershell I don’t want to think about how to write

    Claude (and ChatGPT) are useful for writing scripts in vaguely familiar scripting languages that I would otherwise spend [much more time] trying to piece together the correct syntax to write. And I can often get a reasonable first pass from a prompt on my phone, depending on how complicated the needs are. And regardless of…