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Claude

Essays, patterns, and architectural paradigms for the modern software developer. Focusing on systems thinking and resilient design.
AI

OpenCode vs Claude Code in 2026: Which Should You Actually Use?

On January 9, 2026, thousands of developers woke up to broken workflows. No warning. No email. Just a cold error: “This credential is only authorized for use with Claude Code and cannot be used for other API requests.” Anthropic had silently blocked OpenCode — and every other third-party tool — from using Claude via subscription […]

AI

I tested 1,000+ Claude skills. Only these 10 made the cut.

Claude sits on top of a massive skills library — over a thousand options when you count the community-built ones. Most of them aren’t worth your time. A lot of them are just slightly different ways to do something Claude already does fine on its own. But a handful of them are genuinely different. One […]

AI

Antigravity 2.0 vs Claude Code vs Codex

The AI coding tool market has gotten genuinely competitive in 2026. Anthropic has Claude Code. OpenAI has Codex. And now Google has Antigravity 2.0 — a tool that came out of I/O 2026 with a lot of attention and some real substance behind it. If you’re trying to figure out which one to actually use, […]