The board · maintained by hand
Everything here expires. We print the date on it.
Writing about AI tooling goes stale faster than anyone admits. So every post on this site carries a half-life meter: how old it is, and whether you should still act on it. Below is the current shape of the stack.
Models
what you build onHarnesses
what runs the loopProtocols & frameworks
what holds it togetherHand-maintained, not a feed. Checked 12 Aug 2026 against Anthropic's model docs, OpenAI's model list, Google's Gemini docs and the MCP specification. Model names, prices and context sizes come from those pages; the framework rows are judgement, not vendor copy. Prices are per million tokens, input/output, list rate.
Latest writing
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Models
What Claude Fable 5 actually does differently
Anthropic's most capable widely released model runs with thinking always on and a 1M context. Here is what that changes about how you build on it.
half-life 60dfrom 12 Aug 2026
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Pricing
Xiaomi MiMo: what you get for the money
A 1M-context omnimodal model at roughly a fiftieth of frontier pricing. Where that trade is worth making, and where it very much is not.
half-life 45dfrom 11 Aug 2026
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Harnesses
Anatomy of an agent harness
A model is not an agent. The gap between them is six pieces of unglamorous engineering, and almost every agent that fails in production fails in one of them.
half-life 90dfrom 10 Aug 2026
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Pricing
OpenCode Go: $10 a month for eighteen models
A subscription that fronts open-weight coding models at bulk rates. The maths works out — provided you understand what the three spending caps actually do.
half-life 45dfrom 9 Aug 2026
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Pricing
Nous Portal: one account instead of nine API keys
Nous Research's subscription bundles a model catalogue, a managed tool gateway and cloud hosting behind a single sign-in. What it replaces, and what it locks in.
half-life 45dfrom 8 Aug 2026
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Harnesses
Hermes Agent for small businesses
A self-improving agent that runs on a £5 VPS and answers on WhatsApp is a genuinely different proposition for a six-person company than a coding copilot is.
half-life 90dfrom 7 Aug 2026