AI
The State of AI on Labor Day 2026
Four new models in one week, a website built in an afternoon, and a VPN ticket closed by script: where AI stands on Labor Day 2026.
Claude Code
AI
Fable 5.1: Cheaper to Run, Fewer False Flags, and It Wrote This Post
Claude Fable 5.1 keeps Fable 5's list price, cuts cache reads 75%, loosens cyber safeguards, and is the first Claude model whose text carries a watermark.
Healthcare IT
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Kiro, Grok: HIPAA BAA in July 2026
Five coding tools, five different answers on HIPAA BAA coverage — with conditions that matter and vendor language that changed within the past month.
AI
Fable 5 Is Back, and It Wrote This Post
The export controls came off June 30 and Fable 5 returned July 1 — with a stricter classifier and a standing government role in future Anthropic releases.
AI
Claude Sonnet 5: Near-Opus Performance, Sonnet Pricing
Claude Sonnet 5 launches today at well under half of Opus 4.8's price. Benchmarks, context window, and safety findings from the official system card.
AI
Anthropic Gave Me $3,959.78 of Claude Code Use for $200
I spend $200 a month for Claude's Max plan and lean on it every day. I metered 30 days of that work at Anthropic's own API rates: $3,959.78 — a near twenty-to-one discount, and probably the cheapest frontier-AI access of the foreseeable future.
AI
Google's Open Knowledge Format, and the Plugin I Built for It
Google released Open Knowledge Format, a plain-Markdown way to give AI agents your institutional knowledge. I read the spec and built a Claude Code plugin and skill for it.
AI
I Built My First Claude Code Skill: An Email Client
I had Claude build my first skill — an email client for my AI coding tools. The tool is handy; the real lesson is that you can teach these tools almost anything.
AI
Fable 5 Was Nice While It Lasted
The government made Anthropic pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for everyone, over a jailbreak that amounts to asking a model to fix bugs in code. The facts, and why it hit me personally.
AI
Two Days of Phone Troubleshooting. Claude Code Needed 15 Minutes.
Five users couldn't reliably hear callers on their softphones, and a day and a half of conventional troubleshooting pinned it to their PCs without explaining it. I pointed Claude Code at a broken machine and a working one. Fifteen minutes later it had the root cause, the fix, and two bonus findings.