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What Comes After Tokenmaxxing?: How to avoid getting locked in to just one AI provider

I’m glad the idea of “tokenmaxxing” — that individuals and companies should use as many tokens as possible to boost productivity — is finally dying out.

Open Models, Open Harnesses, Open Security: What we did when Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol refused our security requests

My team recently had our own version of Hugging Face’s experience when closed models failed to defend the company following an accidental cyberattack from OpenAI, leading Hugging Face to use the open

When Guardrails Go Wrong: After a closed model went amok on a key vendor's system, an open weight model helped save the day

A few frontier labs have tried to tell a story of open models being dangerous because they can be used to launch cyberattacks, and of their “safe” proprietary models with strong guardrails being there

AI Rewards Generalists Who Can Build New Skills: With AI assistance, full-stack engineers are joined by full-stack recruiters, full-cycle marketers, and more.

As AI increasingly automates coding, it frees up developers to spend time on high-level software development tasks traditionally reserved for senior engineers, like deciding on technical architecture

Make All Your Tokens (and Your Brainwork) Count: Agentic loop coding works until it fulfills a goal. Here's an agentic way to iterate on your goals to find the right one.

The key idea of agentic coding loops is to have an agent keep working until it satisfies a condition, such as achieving a product specification.