#ClaudeCode

Ten dollars buys twenty dollars of credit on Trae. I spent eighteen of it in one night, then found out Auto mode was routing to GPT-5.2 and Gemini Flash the whole time — and still shipped the work.

Copilot started with per-message pricing. Cursor promised unlimited. Now everything is token-based credits and rolling session windows. Here's how we got here — and why your subscription works the way it does.

Everyone's arguing about which model tops the benchmarks. Nobody's talking about the thing that actually decides whether your agent works — the harness wrapped around it. Here's what's inside one, why it matters more than the model, and why you're already building them without knowing it.

Rewriting big software used to be unthinkable. Then AI made porting a codebase a weekend job — and the thing every one of those ports leaned on wasn't the model. It was the test suite. Code got cheap. Tests didn't.

Everyone's fixated on the $200 and $100 AI subscriptions. Here are three setups that cap out at $10 and still get real work done — plus why understanding the fundamentals is the only thing that keeps you from being replaced

One prompt, about 30 hours over two days, two AI models (one got banned mid-build), and a native macOS system monitor I now use instead of Activity Monitor. The full build story — fan-control hacks, a 17.5 GB ghost, and all the bugs in between.