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All posts →The Invisible Tax: Hidden Quota Burns and Phantom Rate Limits in Claude Code
Update (April 24, 2026): Anthropic published a post-mortem on April 23 acknowledging three issues: a reasoning effort default change (March 4–April 7), a caching bug that continuously cleared thinking on
Claude Code v2.1.117: What Changed, What the Data Shows, and Should You Upgrade
Previously in this series: How to Get a 99% Cache Hit Rate and Keeping Your Cache Warm with /coffee. Three things shipped in v2.1.117 that matter. One is a bug
The Bugs Go Deeper: Silent Context Degradation in Claude Code
In our cache investigation series, we documented how prompt cache bugs were causing 10-20x cost inflation on Max plans. We built a fetch interceptor to fix them. We thought we’d
What Debugging Claude Code’s Cache Taught Us About AI Tooling Economics
Update (April 17, 2026): This post was drafted April 7. In the 10 days since, the investigation expanded significantly: The interceptor now fixes 8+ cache bugs (not just the original
Images That Won’t Die and Directories That Shouldn’t Be There
Opus 4.7 update (April 16, 2026): This post is more urgent than when we wrote it. Opus 4.7 introduces high-resolution image support (2576px, up from 1568px) and a new tokenizer