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cost-optimization
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N° 001Latest dispatch
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
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N° 002AI & Development
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
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N° 003AI & Development
How Claude Code’s Prompt Cache Actually Works — And Three Ways It Breaks
In Part 1, we showed that Claude Code sessions were burning through quota at 26-28% per turn — because the prompt cache was being rebuilt
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N° 004AI & Development
We Taught Our AI Agents to Take Coffee Breaks (And It Saved Us Real Money)
We Taught Our AI Agents to Take Coffee Breaks (And It Saved Us Real Money) Here's something nobody tells you about Claude Code: when you
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N° 005AI & Development
We Burned Through 100% of Our Claude Code Quota in Two Hours. Here’s What We Found.
Claude Code is, in our experience, the best AI coding tool available today. Anthropic's models are genuinely excellent — the reasoning is sharp, the context
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