Spending Time After Hours Talking About AI and Development
Google’s new top model, Gemini 4 Argon, is now open to anyone who pays, at half price until November 30. Plus three small Claude Code changes that cut costs and close a permissions loophole.
Every time you send a message, the AI re-reads everything from the top, and you pay for it. Prompt caching lets you pay about a tenth of the price for the part that didn’t change, as long as you write your prompt in the right order.
Meta, the company that made open AI models popular with Llama, just launched its most powerful model yet, and you can’t download it. Here’s what “closed model” means in plain words, and what changes if you build with it.
Claude Dashboards can pull data from almost any tool you’ve plugged into Claude with MCP. Here’s how to connect one, the three prompts we used, a restart quirk that tripped us up, and how to tell whether your dashboard stays up to date.
Claude can now turn a question about your company’s data into a chart page that keeps itself up to date, and turn an idea into a short animated video. Here’s what each one does, who can use it, and the one detail that makes it trustworthy.
A busy week. ChatGPT got GPT-6 and answers you can tap and play with, Claude got a much cheaper small model plus dashboards and animations, and Google launched an AI agent that does office work for you. Here’s what it means in plain English.
A skill is just a folder with a Markdown file in it. Yet it is the easiest way to make an AI agent do things your way, it works across almost every coding agent now, and a beginner can write…