Category: AI Engineering
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Basic Loop concepts with agents in Claude Code
Autonomous agents in Claude Code sound scarier than they are. Underneath, autonomous agents run on one simple idea that repeats, wrapped in a few commands you can learn over a coffee break. Here is the thing, explained for someone who has just started. The patterns to understand first Let me start with the foundation, because…
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Self-improving AI skills: what to automate, and what to keep human
If I were setting up an AI agent with a writing skill today, the one that drafts my blog posts and content, I’d start with one thing: whatever it writes has to sound like me. My words, my voice, the way I think, not generic AI prose with my name on top. That goal has…
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Claude Fable 5: New Tier Above Opus, Safety as API Surface
What changed with Claude Fable 5 compared to Opus? A new tier above the older model at twice the price, and safety that now lives in the API itself. Anthropic shipped it on June 9, 2026, alongside a sibling model, Claude Mythos 5. What Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 are Claude Fable 5…
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Claude Opus 4.8 for builders: reliability over IQ
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 today, 28 May 2026, a few weeks after Opus 4.7. Standard-tier pricing didn’t change. Fast mode dropped to a third of what it used to cost. Anthropic’s pitch this time is long-horizon reliability: multi-step, multi-tool runs where one early mistake compounds for the next hour. They claim Opus 4.8 is around 4×…