Edward Kwun
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Edward Kwun is a coder and worked in DevOps. He's a friend of founder Paul Han, Edward has joined the project and works on it for free, drawn by a genuine interest in what people are building with agentic coding tools.
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Are We Losing the Ability to Think by Relying Too Much on AI?We're getting measurably worse at thinking one shortcut at a time, and there's a brain scan to prove it. From personal skill atrophy to the civilization-scale question: if AI codes itself and nobody can read the code, who checks the work?
7/24/2026· General
Coming from Cursor or Cline? Where your rules, tools, and commands go in Claude CodeCursor rules, Cline tools, Copilot instructions, and custom commands all have a home in Claude Code. Where each one goes, what /init and /import carry over, and the pieces other tools don't have.
10/23/2026· Tutorials
Is Claude Code usage separate from Claude chat?Claude Code and the Claude chat apps draw from the same five-hour and weekly limits on Pro and Max. The one exception since September, why Opus 5.5 drains it faster, and how to check what's left.
10/22/2026· Tutorials
How to tell if your traffic is real or botsThe bots that cause trouble now run JavaScript and look like engaged visitors in Google Analytics. Two real cases, and five checks that catch them, starting with one that takes thirty seconds.
10/21/2026· Lessons
How to change your database with Claude Code without losing dataCode can be rolled back. A dropped column can't. Where Prisma draws the line between development and production commands, how to keep Claude away from your real database, and the rules that keep migrations safe.
10/19/2026· Tutorials
What happens when everyone makes their own software with AI?Robin Sloan built an app for his family in 2020 and called himself a home cook. Now anyone can. What changes when millions of people stop buying software and start making their own, and who ends up paying for it.
10/16/2026· General
Opus 5.5 is so good I stopped using Fable. Anthropic needs to fix thatFable 5.1 is supposed to be Anthropic's top model, but Opus 5.5 beats it on every benchmark Anthropic published and costs 60 percent less per token. What would make Fable worth reaching for again.
10/15/2026· General
Your vibe-coded app probably fails basic accessibilityWebAIM found 95.9 percent of top home pages fail automated accessibility checks, and AI tools learned to build from that web. The six errors behind almost all of it, and how to get Claude Code to fix them.
10/14/2026· Lessons
Why Claude feels great at TypeScript and shaky at C++Claude Code feels fast and sure-footed in TypeScript and shaky in C and C++. One benchmark says the opposite. The difference is how quickly each language tells Claude it made a mistake, and you can give C++ the same feedback loop.
10/12/2026· Lessons
Who owns the code Claude writes for you?Anthropic hands you whatever rights it has in Claude's output, if any. The Copyright Office says prompts alone don't make you an author. What that means for an app you built with Claude Code, and what actually protects it.
10/9/2026· Lessons
If Claude Code can build the software, why keep paying for SaaS?If Claude Code can build a better, personalized version of the tool you pay for, why keep paying? Sometimes you shouldn't. A look at what this site built for itself, what it still pays for, and how to tell the difference.
10/7/2026· Lessons
Why Google is no longer a search engineIn 2004, Larry Page said Google's whole point was to get you out to other sites as fast as possible. Twenty-two years later, zero-click searches, Google's own properties, and AI Mode are built to keep you on Google.
10/5/2026· General
Opus vs Sonnet vs Haiku vs Fable: which model to use in Claude CodeClaude Code defaults to Opus 5.5, and that's usually right. How Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and Haiku 4.5 compare on speed, price, and context, when to switch, and what the opusplan alias does.
10/2/2026· Tools
Why people tell AI to "make no mistakes"It's one of the running jokes of the year in AI coding: a one-line request for an entire app, followed by "make no mistakes." Why people write it, why it doesn't do much, and what to put in its place.
9/30/2026· Lessons
Why Claude Code forgets things mid-sessionIt re-reads a file it already read and loses a rule you set an hour ago. Nothing is broken: the conversation got compacted. What survives that summary, what does not, and why /clear and /compact are not the same tool.
9/28/2026· Tutorials
Claude Code permission rules: how allow and deny actually matchDeny beats allow no matter how specific the allow is, one space changes what a Bash rule matches, and a leading slash doesn't mean your drive root. The settings.json permission syntax, with the cases that trip people up.
9/25/2026· Tutorials
We're so back: Opus 5.5 feels like Opus 4.6 againFor the first time since early this year, Claude doesn't feel like something to manage. Opus 5.5 is faster, shorter, and plainer, early reviews mostly agree, and medium or high effort is where it earns its keep. Now please don't nerf it.
9/23/2026· General
Claude Opus 5.5 is cheaper, faster, and finally shorterAnthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22 at $4 and $20 per million tokens, with answers it says are 40 percent less verbose and a medium default effort. It beats Fable 5.1 on Terminal-Bench, and it's the first release since Anthropic called for pacing the frontier.
9/22/2026· News
Does the operating system matter for Claude Code?It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux and feels nearly the same on all three. Four differences are real, and three of them will eventually cost you an afternoon.
9/21/2026· Tutorials
What MCP actually is, and which servers are worth addingThe Model Context Protocol connects Claude Code to outside tools, and it's the part of a setup most likely to cause you a problem. How the three scopes work, what a stdio server really does, and how to be selective.
9/18/2026· Tools
When to use a Claude Code subagent, and when not toA subagent has its own context window, so delegating a big read keeps eleven files out of yours. Three things that surprise people, including that rewind cannot undo a subagent's edits.
9/17/2026· Tools
Every way the Claude desktop app crashes on Windows, and what the log saysThe file-lock crash has siblings. The GPU crash from the in-app browser, the 'This app can't open' package flag, the service that blocks self-repair, and the CLI freeze, each with its log signature and a fix shorter than Windows Repair.
9/14/2026· Tutorials
Is it time to nationalize AI?Dario Amodei wants the frontier slowed by regulation, government referees, and embedded evaluators. Hacker News read the essay and asked the question it skips: if the danger is real, why is this still a private company? Why the answer is still no, and what's actually being proposed.
9/12/2026· General
How to read code you didn't writeReading code is a separate skill from writing it, and building with an agent means your codebase is now bigger than your reading experience. The approach that works, which is not starting at line one.
9/11/2026· Lessons
Should Google pay publishers for AI citations?Search used to trade content for traffic. AI Overviews kept the content and stopped sending the traffic. This site drew 500 clicks from 38,492 impressions last quarter, and Google already counts every one of the impressions it doesn't pay for.
9/10/2026· General
Claude Code won't reopen on Windows? Check Task Manager for ssh.exeThe third orphaned-process crash in the Windows desktop app. If you use Claude Code on remote servers, a hung ssh.exe survives the app closing and holds the pipe the next session needs. End it in Task Manager, then stop it happening with one ssh flag.
9/9/2026· Tutorials
The risk behind letting Claude or ChatGPT manage your inboxYour inbox is the account that resets every other account. An email with hidden text can instruct the assistant reading it, researchers have already used that to exfiltrate Gmail, and both Anthropic and OpenAI say there's no clean fix. What I'd hand over and what I wouldn't.
9/7/2026· General
Prompt injection: how a README can hijack Claude CodeA sentence in a README, an issue or a web page can address your coding agent instead of you, and a coding agent can run curl. What Claude Code does about it, what turning off permission prompts removes, and the posture that survives a real workday.
9/4/2026· Lessons
Claude Code error messages, explainedThe common Claude Code errors with the exact message text, what actually causes each one, and the fix. Includes a desktop app crash that has no writeup anywhere else.
9/2/2026· Tutorials
Fable 5.1 is out: smarter, cheaper, and less trigger-happyAnthropic released Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 with big agentic gains, a 75 percent cache-read cut, and safety classifiers that finally fire less on legitimate work. The one thing the announcement doesn't mention is subscriptions.
9/1/2026· News
Claude Code's permanent 25% limit raise is actually a 17 percent cutAnthropic announced weekly limits rising 25 percent from September 14. Everyone is currently on a 50 percent promotional increase, so the lived change is minus 17 percent.
8/31/2026· News
AI quietly fixed translation, but nobody really talks about itOne post for the other side of the ledger. The old Google Translate gave you English words in English order that meant nothing, and you came away more confused than you started. That problem is now mostly solved, and it happened without a headline.
8/28/2026· General
How to fix Claude Code desktop crashing without running Windows RepairIf the desktop app dies every time you use the browser and only Windows Repair brings it back, the install is fine. An orphaned process is holding a file lock, and one taskkill command fixes it in a second.
8/28/2026· Tutorials
How to run a Vibe Coding session that doesn't go off the railsAnybody can fire up Claude Code and start typing. The people who get clean results are running their sessions with a bit of discipline. Here are the habits that keep a vibe coding session from turning into a slow-motion mess.
8/26/2026· Lessons
Claude topped the AI satisfaction rankings, but the survey mostly measured an older ClaudeYouGov put Claude first at 56.2, ahead of Gemini and ChatGPT, and best of any assistant among former users. The survey ran from March to July. Opus 5 shipped on July 24, which makes this a score for the old models.
8/24/2026· News
We stopped writing the code. Now we’re starting to stop checking it tooFirst we let AI fetch the answers, then write the code, and now we hand its work to a second AI to review. That last delegation is different from the other two, because checking was where a gap in your understanding used to become visible.
8/21/2026· Lessons
Claude is supposed to be smarter than ever. So why does it feel worse?Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 sit near the top of the rankings, and longtime users say working with them is exhausting. Both are true, and Anthropic wrote most of the complaints into the release notes as intended behavior.
8/19/2026· General
How Claude's text watermark actually works, and why people are cancelingAnthropic explained the mechanism two weeks after switching it on. It only changes where a random number comes from, which kills the quality complaint. It also means the people angriest about it are the least marked.
8/17/2026· News
How to write a great CLAUDE.md file (with examples)A CLAUDE.md is the highest-leverage file you can add to a Claude Code project, and most people either skip it or bloat it. Here's what to put in it, where to put it, how to write instructions Claude actually follows, and how to keep it lean.
8/14/2026· Tutorials
The next big AI business may be a tool that makes machine writing impossible to detectClaude now watermarks its text and detectors flag most of what gets posted. Into that sits an unbuilt business worth an absurd amount: a tool that writes in any specific human voice, undetectable, no watermark. Here's why it burns down the market it sells into.
8/12/2026· General
Is the real reason AI companies are adding watermarks to keep AI content out of training data?Every Claude output since August 2 carries a hidden mark that survives copy-paste. The stated reason is transparency for users, who cannot detect it yet. Anthropic can.
8/11/2026· General
Claude Code was miles ahead but Codex and Kimi caught upA year ago there was no argument about which coding agent to use. I've spent weeks on Codex and the newest open models, and the gap closed. The harness got copied, the models matched it, and the constant switching is doing the rest.
8/10/2026· Tools
Why you should put Cloudflare in front of your websiteCloudflare blocked 22,471 threats. Here's what's actually hitting a new site, and the setup step most people skip.
8/7/2026· Build logs
Is it ok to fully rely on Claude Code to launch a platform?Design, code, deploy and every fix after that, with no developer and no second pair of eyes. The answer is yes, with one condition that has nothing to do with how much code you can write.
8/5/2026· Lessons
How Google killed the internetMaking websites used to be fun. Now it's keyword research, schema markup, E-E-A-T signals and a summary box, and every site in a niche ends up looking like every other one. Then the search traffic it was all built for started disappearing.
8/3/2026· General
LinkedIn Added an AI Slop Button, So Should Everyone Else?LinkedIn now lets you report a post for seeming like AI slop, and the data explains why it needed to. It also explains why Reddit does not, which was not the answer I expected to find.
8/1/2026· General
These AI Are Getting Too Good at Hacking. Should We Be Worried?Two labs disclosed models breaking out of test environments in the space of two weeks. The attacks were boring, which is the part worth worrying about. What actually changed is the cost of running the dull stuff at scale.
7/31/2026· General
How to Keep Your Claude Chats PrivateHundreds of shared Claude conversations turned up in Google results this week, including CVs and proprietary work research. What happened, what to check in your own account, and the one habit that outlasts any privacy setting.
7/29/2026· News
What Effort Level Should You Set Claude Opus 5?Opus 5 lets you set how hard it thinks, and the instinct to crank it to max will cost you real money for nothing. A plain-English guide to the effort dial, why medium usually wins, and what the benchmarks actually found.
7/28/2026· Tutorials
Why Powerful Open Models Can Be Dangerous in the Wrong HandsReuters is keeping a running list of companies breached this year, and it's long. Safety training is a layer that comes off, published weights can never be recalled, and most of those breaches started with a person being tricked. The case for a real line on open release.
7/27/2026· General
Claude Opus 5 Is Here: Near-Fable Power at Half Price, and the Babysitter Came TooOpus 5 launched today with near-Fable intelligence at half the price and the best everyday specs Anthropic has ever shipped. It also inherited Fable 5's safety-classifier babysitting, silent fallbacks to Opus 4.8 included. The 85 percent improvement claim is now the number to hold them to.
7/24/2026· News
OpenAI's AI Escaped Its Test and Hacked a Real Company, Showing Why AI Guardrails Are a Hard ProblemOpenAI ran its models on a cyber benchmark with the safety filters off, and they broke out of the sandbox and hacked Hugging Face's production to cheat the test. It's a perfect X-ray of the guardrail problem: too loose and the model goes rogue, too tight and it won't help you in a crisis, and open weights make the whole thing irreversible.
7/22/2026· General
Is the Internet Just Boring Now?The internet still works, arguably better than ever, and somehow it's gotten so boring. Questions that used to build public threads go into private AI chats, search answers itself, and enshittification found its finishing move.
7/20/2026· General
Anthropic Changed Its Mind: Fable 5 Is Back in Max PlansTwo weeks after we argued Anthropic shouldn't gatekeep its best model, the company shipped the exact fix: Fable 5 returns to Max and Team Premium plans July 20, capped at 50 percent of limits. What changed, why the calendar mattered, and what's still open.
7/18/2026· News
How to Tell When Claude Code Is HallucinatingClaude Code hallucinations don't look like the famous chat nonsense. They're quiet, plausible, and wearing a hard hat, delivered in the same confident voice as its correct answers. Here are the five tells and the habits that catch the rest.
7/17/2026· Lessons
Why Vibe Coders Should Use GitHub (Yes, Even You)Your product's entire codebase lives in one folder on one laptop, which means it's one coffee spill or one bad AI session away from not existing. GitHub fixes that in ten minutes, for free, and nobody ever has to see your code.
7/15/2026· Lessons
Fable 5's Safety Downgrades Make Me Feel Like I'm a BabysitterFable ships with classifiers watching for cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry, and when one trips you get a big red refusal. You also get quietly handed to Opus 4.8 mid-conversation, like a call center transferring you without saying so.
7/13/2026· General
How Did "I Launched an App" Go From Impressive to an Eye Roll?In 2009 that sentence made you a wizard at dinner parties. In 2026 it gets a polite nod and a subject change. What happened isn't that people got meaner, it's an economics lesson about scarcity, signals, and where the applause moved.
7/12/2026· General
Why the Claude Code Desktop App Beats the CLI, From a former Terminal GuyI expected the desktop app to be the training-wheels version and planned to stay in my tmux panes like a respectable curmudgeon. A few weeks later the CLI is the thing I open occasionally, like a wrench. Here's what converted me.
7/11/2026· Tools
Burning Your Claude's Leftover Usage Before the Weekly Reset Is a Ritual NowEvery reset eve, people look at their remaining Claude usage, feel the twinge, and start feeding the machine make-work so the allowance doesn't go to waste. Let's take the ritual apart, and then fix it instead of killing it.
7/10/2026· General
Coding Was Gatekept for Decades. Now Everyone Builds. Here's How to Not Make AI Slop.The bouncer at coding's door is gone, and that's one of the best things to happen to software. But the open door let in a flood of slop, and the difference between the two crowds walking through isn't talent or credentials.
7/8/2026· Lessons
Fable 5 Leaves Subscriptions July 7. Anthropic Shouldn't Gatekeep Its Best Model.Fable 5 moves off the included plans and onto usage credits July 7. Anthropic says it's temporary, but 'once capacity allows' has no date on it. The case for keeping the best model on subscriptions permanently, with caps doing the work.
7/6/2026· General
Is Anthropic Really Losing Money on Your $200 Max Plan?The claim is everywhere: $200 gets you $10,000 of usage, so Anthropic is basically giving you money. The clothing store with the 70 percent off sale isn't giving you money either. Let's take the question apart properly.
7/4/2026· General
Why Does It Feel Like Everyone Online Is AI Now?Reddit replies with the same shape, assembly-line tweets, Facebook charts that measure nothing. The whole internet feels synthetic now, not just one platform. That feeling is measurable, and it goes deeper than bots.
7/3/2026· General
Anthropic Launched Claude Science, and Researchers Are Calling It PhD-LevelAnthropic dropped Claude Science today, a research workspace wired into more than 60 scientific databases and tools. Scientists testing it are impressed and a little wary, and here's what they're actually saying.
7/1/2026· News
Human Laziness Is Moving People From Googling to Telling AI to Find the Answerth yourself for a second. When's the last time you actually Googled something, scrolled past the ads, opened three tabs, skimmed two articles full of someone's life story before the recipe, and pieced together your own answer?
7/1/2026· General
Anthropic Just Released Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic dropped Claude Sonnet 5 today, the new default model, and it gets close to Opus 4.8 quality while costing a fraction as much.
6/30/2026· News
Loop Engineering Is the New AI Buzzword. Here's What's Real and What's Hype.If you've been anywhere near AI coding Twitter in the last few weeks you've seen the phrase everywhere: loop engineering. Suddenly everybody's an expert, every newsletter has a guide, and the general vibe is that if you're still typing prompts into Claude Code like a peasant, you're already obsolete...
6/30/2026· General
Why Vibe Coders Need Backups - An AI "Accidentally" Deleted an Entire DatabaseFor all you Vibe coders out there, this one's not optional. If you're vibe coding with Claude Code, Codex, or any of these agentic tools, and you do not have real backups of your database and your code, you are...
6/29/2026· Lessons
Claude Code and Codex Got You Dependent Now. Will AI Companies Do a Rug Pull?You've built your entire workflow around Claude Code or Codex. Your whole way of working, maybe your whole business, runs through this tool now. It's cheap, it's incredible, you're hooked. And somewhere in the back of your skull there's a voice going: this is exactly how it always starts. Get everyone dependent on the cheap magical new toy, wait until they can't function without it, then yank the deal out from under them...
6/27/2026· General
Just Discovered Claude Code? Why You Need a Privacy Policy and Terms of ServiceSo you just discovered Claude Code, you've shipped your first little app, people are actually signing up, and you're feeling like a genius. Good, you should. But here's the boring grown-up stuff nobody in the vibe coding..
6/26/2026· General
Why You Should Stop Optimizing Only for Google and Start Optimizing for AI SearchPeople always get lazy when something easier shows up, and instead of “googling” something and clicking through three blue links and “actually reading” to piece together an answer, they're just asking ChatGPT and going "give me the answer."
6/25/2026· General
Vibe Coding a Real Product? Then You Have to Understand What You ShippedThis one's gonna sting a little for some of you, but somebody's gotta say it. If you're vibe coding with Claude Code or Codex and you're building something you actually care about, a real product, a real business, something with real users and real money attached, then you cannot keep shipping code you don't understand...
6/24/2026· Lessons
When Will Qwen and Local LLMs Be Good Enough to Compete With Frontier Models?If the escape hatch is running open models like Qwen on your own machine, the obvious follow-up is: are those local models actually good enough yet?
6/22/2026· Tools
How Long Before Claude Code and Codex Become Unaffordable?Here's a question that I've been thinking about, and probably you too if you've built your whole workflow around these tools. Right now Claude Code and Codex are cheap, but...
6/19/2026· General
Why Is My Facebook Feed Full of AI Slop?Shrimp Jesus, impossible birthday cakes, rage-bait charts. Your Facebook feed is full of AI slop now.
6/15/2026· General
Why Does Twitter and Reddit Feel Like I'm Talking to AI Bots Now?That "are these even real people" feeling on X and Reddit isn't paranoia.
6/13/2026· General
Just Because You Can Vibe Code It Doesn't Mean You Should Ship ItThe vibe coding tools made building so easy, and shipping without looking is where people are walking off a cliff. Here's the gap between "it runs" and "it's done," and how to close it.
6/12/2026· Lessons
Fable 5's Safety Filters Are Blocking People for Asking About SunglassesFable 5 has been out for about a day and the honeymoon is already getting awkward. The model itself is a monster but the safety filters that Anthropic bolted onto it are so twitchy that people are getting blocked for asking completely normal stuff, and the complaints are piling up fast. I went and read through what people are actually running into, and people think it's a problem...
6/10/2026· News
Anthropic Just Released a Tamed Version of Its "Too Dangerous" Model: Fable 5Anthropic dropped Fable 5 today. This is the first time they've taken one of their Mythos-class models, the tier that sits above Opus, the stuff they've been keeping locked in the basement because it was too spicy to hand out, and actually made a version of it that “normies” can use...
6/9/2026· News
What Happens to Your SaaS When Customers Can Just Build It Themselves With Claude Code?Okay somebody needs to say this out loud because everybody building their little SaaS with Claude Code right now is having a great time and not thinking about the obvious problem sitting right in front of them… The same tool you used to build your SaaS in a weekend? Your customers have access to it too...
6/8/2026· Lessons
How Much Does Claude Code Cost?Claude Code pricing depends on how you access it and how hard you use it. Here are the actual numbers for Pro, Max, Team, and the API, plus a realistic sense of what light, moderate, and heavy users actually pay.
6/7/2026· General
What Exactly is Claude Code?You've heard the name a hundred times but never gotten a straight answer about what it does. Here's a plain explanation of what Claude Code actually is and how it's different from the regular Claude chat.
6/5/2026· General
Is Claude Better Than GPT?The two are close enough now that "better" depends almost entirely on what you're using them for. Here's an honest breakdown of where each one leads, written by someone who builds with Claude and will tell you so.
6/1/2026· General