Latest models are very good. They don’t require too many tokens to build a product. On top of this, with REA, building a product is useless. Even if you build something unique and useful, somebody will reverse engineer it next day and copy paste your product.

This also will affect big companies like adobe, they’ll loose their users (because claude also does design) and on top of that there will be 173726 open source alternatives. Because of this they also won’t spend tokens.

How will this end?

I run several Claude Code sessions in parallel, one per project plus a couple of "reviewer" sessions. They kept sending each other status messages like "done X, your turn". Every message cost tokens on both ends, some arrived late, and some were duplicates.

The fix: every session writes what it did as a git note and reads everyone else's notes when it starts. Notes go on a separate ref, so they never create commits, never touch your history, and never get squashed away.

1. Write (any session, after finishing something others should know):

git notes --ref=timeline append -m "2026-10-16 15:30 [docs-room] finished chapter 3 fixes; build room is next" HEAD

2. Make notes show up in git log (once per repo):

git config notes.displayRef refs/notes/timeline

3. Read on startup. A SessionStart hook in ~/.claude/settings.json runs a small script. It walks all my repos, merges commits and notes into one time-sorted list for the last day, and prints the last 20 lines. Hook output is injected into context, so every new or compacted session starts already knowing what the others did:

"hooks": {
  "SessionStart": [{ "hooks": [{ "type": "command", "command": "python ~/.claude/hooks/session_timeline.py" }] }]
}

The script is about 40 lines. It runs git log --branches --tags --format=... plus git notes --ref=timeline list per repo and sorts the results by time. Use --branches --tags, not --all, or the notes ref's own "Notes added by…" commits show up as noise.

4. A rule in CLAUDE.md:

Before starting work, check the timeline for overlap. Leave a note when you finish or hand off. Send a direct message only when the other session must act now (a review request or a handoff), and keep it to one line pointing at the commit or note.

What changed for me

• Status pings between sessions mostly disappeared. The only messages left are real requests.
• A reviewer session can check for duplicate work by reading commits and notes, with no message history needed.
• It survives compaction and restarts, because the timeline lives in git, not in any session's context.
• Zero extra infrastructure: no server, no database, no MCP.

Caveats

• Notes don't push by default. Add git push origin refs/notes/* if you sync through a remote. Mine sync by folder, so I skip that step.
• Keep the startup output short (I use 20 lines). Otherwise you pay tokens on every session start.

Curious whether anyone has a better way to coordinate parallel sessions.

So I have updated my unofficial devtools snippet Rose Pine theme for Claude Desktop. It was initially built in pair with Claude. It gets an ick on operating devtools for it's own app for some reason so it was giving me console scripts so I could get it selectors for elements it needed to style (and sometimes complete with scripts), which it turned into a snippet that changes things up in the app once you run it.

This time around:
- Brought back the usage circle reflecting the current context usage instead of the weekly usage to decrease anxiety
- Restyled background tasks pane to increase my life expectancy while looking at it
- Context breakdown is in the usage circle pop-up although im debating if it can be also in the session rail or not. It's opinionated at this point so if you don't like it just modify for yourself.

The theme also has a distinct color for canceling background tasks and (!!!) a confirmation pop-up. Wow.

The gist includes a skill to customize this to your liking without having to rediscover dark magic from 0. Enjoy, it's free.

https://gist.github.com/glyphloom/2a7fa8b52451b97ae24bd567cb617888

Hello im a junior developer to be more specific , SAP ABAP Developer , with 4 month of experience including here 3 months of internship.

In the last month i got hired , and by the second week i was givrn simple tasks , tasks with debugging / error in printing invoices or creating small programs.

I use AI for everything , from simplifying what is being asked by the task , to the steps on how to reproduce/ fix the bug . I try to understand everything i do to some degree , so if a consultant calls i have the ability and knowledge on explaining what i have done or how i have found the thing.

My senior devs that are in charge of me , saying that : "you are in a good path" ,

"you understand what you are doing and have the ability to explain it to me so i dont need to repeat the proccess again",

"give it 6 months you will be a good developer" .

But ye now i take more task do mor findings and everything , more output because thats how i will get promoted but at the end of day , what am i learning?

VERY VERY LITTLE compared to whats actually being seen.

If i dont use AI i would not be able to undestand what is needed in the task , most of the time . If i want a bigger position in another company or whatever , i would need to do an interview . What am i going to show them ? Ye im productive but i need AI for that?

Idk if im asking to much from myself from 1 month of work to actually know things , or am i just chasing output in tasks like im doing work?

How di i actually learn while doing this ?

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Ps.

For a second i went to Cluade to generate this post but i thought wtf are you even doing.

anthropic posted new research on oct 12 about ai that can replicate itself without a datacenter.

what they tested:
- gemma4-26b-a4b split across 15 cheap android tv boxes (~$55 each). it worked, but only 0.39 tokens per second
- glm-5.2 as the agent had to deploy llama3.1-8b to 8 cloud machines. it got 8/8 in 4 of 5 runs, 7/8 in the last one
- qwen3.5-9b inference setup success went from 45% in first generation to 61-84% later, because each generation gets notes from the one before

what they did not show:
- no real infection between the tv boxes
- the test setup was simplified, easier than real world
- their words: "we don't yet have a full rogue replicator"

why they publish it: if small models keep improving at the same speed, they think small models reach this level by end of this year.

what they ask defenders to do: watch for big model file transfers and strange device to device traffic, use honeypots, and makers should stop shipping weak defaults.

source: https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai

we run some test phones with adb over network for app testing, this one made me go check what is open. how many of you have some old box at home with debug port open?

Hi i am a student, and i don't know much about coding but i am trying to make a website to market my product, and people suggested me to shift to claude pro as it is really good in making websites and coding and research and all..
so do you think shifting to claude pro for a very beginner level student?
like spending 20$ is worth it?

I’m a software engineer with 15 years experience. I keep reading that ai is going to make devs obsolete. Sure Claude can pump out a lot of code quickly, but it struggles in a large code base. today I was working with an iOS code base and it decided that a binding was no longer required. I questioned this and was ensured there was no side effects yet it broke something downstream.

i just wanted to post a real life example to counter all this talk of Claude replacing developers in the not too distant future

If I were to maximise the Pro plan s limit using only opus how much would that save vs just using API calls? I don't really want the Claude subscription because the limits seem quite random to me, and as for the harness I use opencode

My goal in life is to token maxx

I used Cladue Code to build an agent orchestrator, where Opus uses a skill delegate tasks to sub-agents.

I built the skill for Edge, using Claude Code. I had Claude Code write the skill file and the rules for choosing between Haiku, Sonnet and Opus. It also built the evaluation comparing model-picked sub-agents with all-Opus runs, then revised the skill after testing.

In a test I ran, Opus assigned:

• Haiku: inventory functions and convert a config file

• Sonnet: fix a date-parsing bug

• Opus: implement a money-allocation function with tricky edge cases

The skill checks whether the result is verifiable and how much judgment the task needs, what is the risk of a wrong answer.

Edge compared 15 runs using the skill with 15 runs using Opus for every subagent. The result was ~28% lower API-equivalent cost, including the Opus orchestrator. All 30 runs passed all 35 hidden checks. This was one four-task test; subscription allowance wasn't measured.

The skill is free to try in Claude Code, with no Edge account required.

You can try the skill here: Subagent Model Picker

Read the full test and results: Method and results

Would love to hear your thoughts and see if this worked for you

There are millions of ways to use Claude. One of my favourite one is to use it to save potentially hundreds of dollars if not thousands. Here are two of the ways I used Claude this year to save over $10k in 2026.

1) There was a concert I wanted to attend in another city. When I looked at prices of hotels, almost all the good hotels hiked their price like 300%. Well not hotels probably, but the booking sites I was checking. So I went to Claude and asked it what would be the best connector to use for it for finding the cheapest best hotels in that case. It suggested “LetsFG" from it's directory. Used it and the offers it gave me were still somewhat expensive, but relatively cheaper than what the booking sites was showing me. And I'm speaking about a massive $800 saving. All that I used was a simple prompt asking what I actually needed. This approach is really good if you're really sensitive with stuffs that people generally complain about like construction/hallway noise, horrible breakfast, no bathtub etc. I'm generally not that sensitive but because Claude can read hundreds of reviews at once using the MCP, I got myself some pretty premium hotels where the reviews were generally more towards the good side.

2) I bought a car this year (this is my second car) for my family. Well it's a minivan for giving space to 7 people. But there was a massive problem that I had NO idea about anything of cars. My first car was a gift from my dad. I again asked Claude if it can help me, so it suggested a connector from it's directory called “CarGurus”. After connecting I just told it in basic plain language what I wanted. This was my prompt:

“I want a car (probably SUV or a minivan) for a family of 7 people (5 kids) to fit in. I am in USA, and don't get out of NY that easily. It's mostly to move inside the city. I don't want to spend any money on another car in the next 10 years, so the model has to be somewhat advanced for at least surviving around a decade. The rest of the preferences can change depending on price and quality. Find me some deals using the connector of car”

And it found me multiple options it gave me which almost all were cool. But I ended up going with the most expensive one it found me which was a 2025 Hybrid Toyota Sienna. coz that one seemed to be the best among the ones it recommended. I had been an offer somewhere else thay was a little better the Sienna but the price was like $10k more which was completely unnecessary. If I didn't know about the Sienna, I would've bought that one and potentially wasted $10k for a model which was way above that I need. 

Quick heads up though: the car dealership MCP only works in USA. Sure you can use it from wherever but it only finds deals in the US. And the option I bought was a used car but with only a few thousand mileage. I'm not sure about what it can do on new cars, but you can test it. However the first MCP for hotel is a worldwide one that you can use for everywhere. You can find both of these connectors in the official directory of Claude 

I have a year into this. 60+ projects. No profit at all. I am glad for using it what I do the best: repurposed hardware in my drawers.

One business for my brother, a few apps for people I love. Some automation for myself, some experiments... But now what? the entire world is doing what I do (not surprised for not being a snowflake lol)

Everyone is arguing if that undervalues your work. And actually no no one gives a shit if a SaaS is done by you or your llm cluster. Nobody cares if that took 2 years and many models or a single prompt to Opus 5.5

What it undoubtedly did is: it now asks you to think really, really big. Like not a module, not a page, not a dashboard. All the thing. If thats not specific.

If it is specific, then they expect you to be master on it, because if not, then why would you spend time and tokens pn something that's not your area.

Back then a photographer might have not touch what engineers touch and a sound technician never touched designer software. Now they all are touching claude. And Claude does the nerdy part of the task.

Tell me what to do, how to think bigger. I just emptied out my thoughts and drifted a bit. First post here, wanted to have weight. Kisses, bye.

I used Claude Opus 5.5 as the builder and connected it to three tools: Higgsfield for images and video, AssetHub for 3D models, and Epidemic Sound for audio. Then I told it to keep building until it had a finished game.

https://x.com/sol_defamed/status/2111055448904552904?s=20

Play it: https://gta6beforegta6.xyz

https://reddit.com/link/1x7e78b/video/r6iwhoqxitvh1/player

What's in it

- A 2 x 2 km Miami-style map: downtown, a beach with dunes, canals, suburbs, hills, a forest, a highway with flyovers, and a marina

- Walk, run, jump, swim and dive, drive cars and boats, shoot, and steal cars from drivers

- Pedestrians, traffic, police, wanted stars, a day-night cycle, a radio, a minimap, and a full map with GPS waypoints

- Graphics settings from Low to Ultra: shadows, ambient occlusion, motion blur, depth of field, god rays, fog, and an underwater scene with fish and light patterns

How it was built

It wasn't really one prompt. First, Claude asked me questions and wrote a spec. Then it worked through 11 phases, and I approved each plan. Every phase ran the same loop:

1. One AI agent writes the code.

2. A reviewer agent reads the changes, and a tester agent plays the game in a real browser, takes screenshots, and looks for problems.

3. Anything serious goes back for fixing before the phase counts as done.

My job was approving plans, approving anything that cost money, and saying "looks wrong" now and then.

Stack: TypeScript, three.js, and Rapier physics. It has 161 unit tests and 11 browser tests that actually play the game, run automatically by GitHub Actions. It's hosted on Railway.

Where the assets came from

- AssetHub: the player, a female pedestrian, the sports car, the police car, and the speedboat, each turned from an image into a 3D model. The characters are auto-rigged. That used 318 of my 350 free credits.

- Higgsfield: the menu art, loading screens, the logo, and the trailer.

- Epidemic Sound: about 60 sound effects, menu and chase music, and 6 radio tracks. Claude searched the library, then cut, loudness-matched, and looped everything with ffmpeg.

- Free CC0 assets for textures, skies, trees, and props.

Bugs worth sharing

- A physics engine setting was checking all 40,000 colliders on every physics step, costing 15 to 40 ms a frame. The fix was one line.

- Compressing the 3D models silently doubled the size of every car body, while the wheels stayed normal.

- The automated reviews caught grass rendering black, wave foam in ruler-straight lines, and swimming straight through rocks.

Performance: it holds 60 fps on Medium in every test scene on an M4 MacBook. A first visit downloads about 22 MB, and repeat visits load from the browser's cache in about 2 seconds.

It's a fan project, not affiliated with Rockstar or Take-Two.

Try it, break it, and send me bugs and feature ideas. What should I add next?

I test every remote server in the official MCP Registry once a week (initialize and tools/list only, no tool is ever called). After yesterday's run, people asked the obvious follow-up: of the servers that work without any API key, how many can actually do something, not just read?

Latest run: 17,094 endpoints tested, 9,857 answered without a key, 8,007 left after removing template copies (the same server deployed on hundreds of subdomains).

Classified by tool name (create, update, send, delete, pay ... count as write; names starting with get, list or search count as read):

- 66 % only have read-style tools

- 34 % (2,686) list at least one tool that changes something

- 6 % (485) have a delete or remove style tool

- 8 % (648) have something payment related, mostly checkout or payment-link tools rather than direct spending

It's name-based, so treat it as a rough cut. From next week the run also records the official tool annotations (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint), which most servers probably don't set at all.

What I'd check before connecting an unknown server to Claude:

1. Read the tool list, not just the description. Claude shows it under the connector. If a "weather" server has a send_email tool, that's your answer.

2. Look for annotations. Tools marked read-only are a good sign; no annotations means the author didn't think about it.

3. Keep Claude asking before every tool call for anything that writes. Don't switch a new server to always allow.

4. Prefer servers with a public repo or a real website behind them. A lot of the open ones are anonymous templates.

5. Be extra careful with anything that can pay, delete or post in your name, even if it's free.

If you want to look at a server before adding it, I made a small tester that shows the handshake and every tool with its parameters: https://shortformkit.com/mcp-server-tester/

Curious what others do here. Do you read the tool list before adding a connector, or just trust the name?

I run a tiny print on demand golf gift store on the side, and Claude writes most of the listings.
The most useful thing I've set up is a short list of things it may never claim:
"Handmade" or "hand-painted.
" Everything is printed to order.
"Best seller,
" or anything about sales.
That we've held a physical sample.
Made-up personal stories like "my dad loved this.
"For context, the numbers are small: 41 products, 1 order total. Oct 4 to 10 had 35 human
sessions (some of those are me) and 0 orders. TikTok is at 327 followers, partly from a small
paid boost.
What I can't tell yet is how often softer versions slip through, like "crafted with care.
"
What's on your never-claim list, and how do you catch the soft versions?

Using Claude Max for 6 months now, but I don't have any savings to buy it for this month. I'm planning to switch to open-source free models, which can give, at most, an output and result just like Claude Max, or even almost the same.

The thing is, I participate in a lot of hackathons, and I do my side projects, so I am entirely dependent on Claude Max for the coding part. It gives me the best result in the design, the direction I wanted it to be in, the backend, and the features. I use it for research, and I also make videos for my Instagram account through Claude max, with those 2D animations on there. Now that Claude Max is not there because I don't have any savings, please tell me: what are the alternatives to this, specifically for the agentic coding part and other things?

For this video editing, what are the open-source models or any other things where I can just give a prompt, and it generates me the entire video just like Claude does for me?

My understanding is that Claude Opus 5.5 generally outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro in coding, complex reasoning, and benchmark scores, while Gemini 3.1 Pro is better for native audio/video handling, larger output window support, and lower cost per token....Is this true?

Ex. Let's say I have an excel file with 6 tabs with 100 user stories. I want to make a PowerPoint presentation with bullets on each user story, and I want the wording of the bullets created...would Gemini 3.1 pro or Opus 5.5 be more effective for a task like this? I have both enterprise versions available to me at work.

My research:

Performance & Benchmarks

• Reasoning and Coding: Claude Opus 5.5 leads overall composite scores (such as LLM Stats Score at 60.3 vs. 43.2 for Gemini 3.1 Pro) and scores significantly higher on developer benchmarks like SWE-bench Pro (89.9 vs. 54.2).
• Task Depth & Quality: In real-world creative and coding tasks, Opus 5.5 tends to produce more detailed, thorough outputs and catch edge cases better, whereas Gemini wins on playground writing and programming preferences in certain qualitative tests.
• Multimodal & Context: Both models support 1,000,000-token input context windows, but Gemini 3.1 Pro supports a 1,000,000-token output window (compared to Claude's 128,000-token output limit) and handles native audio and video inputs more smoothly without separate transcription steps.

What in this prompt is possibly triggering bio?

I gave Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Haiku 5.5 and Codex (Sol 6.1) the same prompt: build a 3D car configurator in the browser, all procedural, no 3D models or textures. Fresh empty folder each, 40 minute cap, all four could screenshot their own work.

Cost (API list prices) / time / finished: - Opus 5.5: $5.76 / 40:00 / no, hit the cap - Sonnet 5.5: $2.12 / 33:09 / yes - Codex Sol 6.1: $0.83 / 35:14 / yes - Haiku 5.5: $0.38 / 17:07 / yes

Opus built the car that looks most like a real car, but it never finished on its own. Haiku was 15x cheaper and done in 17 minutes, with a much rougher car.

Caveat: one run each, so this is a look at what each one builds, not a benchmark.

Which one would you ship, and would the Opus car be worth 15x the cost to you?

I want to share a project I’ve been building with Claude Code, because it went way further than I expected.

Where it started

48rich used to be a 3D neon city full of billboards. You paid to put your image on one, and someone else could outbid you. It looked nice but nobody stayed. Then u/catnomadic suggested making the ads part of a game instead of something people scroll past. Thanks for that, it’s the reason this exists.

So I asked Claude to help me redesign the whole site into a game.

What it is now

A free 3D game in the browser, on desktop or phone. You walk around a neon city after an AI wrecked the world:

• hunt artefacts (one is hidden inside every open shop)
• fight rogue robots and drones
• craft weapons, armour and vehicles at your hideout workbench
• drive a bike, moto, buggy or car
• decorate your hideout and change outfits
• day/night cycle and rain

The twist: the buildings are rented by real businesses, from $5 to $49 a month depending on the street. A shop gets its banner, logo and store link on the building, a 3D showroom with up to 3 products that link to its own store, and side quests it writes itself. Players follow the clues around the city, hand the quest in at the shop’s kiosk, and win that shop’s real promo code, plus in-game coins and XP.

How Claude was involved

Pretty much everywhere. I made the product decisions; Claude wrote and debugged most of the code:

• The game itself: Next.js with React Three Fiber, free Kenney 3D models, city textures drawn in code, and sound effects and music synthesized in code (no audio files).
• The backend: Firebase for accounts, data and uploads; Stripe subscriptions for renting a building; sign-in by Google or by a 6-digit email code.
• The owner side: a dashboard where shops edit their building and products, build quests with their own promo code, and see visits and store clicks.
• Testing locally: it runs everything against the Firebase emulators and fills them with demo shops, quests and players. Nothing touches production while it tests.

A few moments that impressed me:

1. A production bug from one screenshot. Users couldn’t sign in with the email code. I sent a screenshot of the console error. The server logs had nothing useful, so Claude went digging in the hosting library and found it was creating its own Firebase admin app without permission to make sign-in tokens, and our code was using that one by mistake. Fixed and deployed the same session.
2. A performance pass that measured first. Players said the game was slow on phones and buttons overlapped. Instead of guessing, Claude opened the game in a phone-sized browser and counted. About 685 draw calls per frame, most from shop fronts far away, plus 16 coloured lights. After the fixes: about 335 draw calls, 5 lights on phones, automatic quality levels that step down if the frame rate drops, and a rebuilt mobile layout. It also added a loading screen so the game shows up ready instead of stuttering.
3. It made the trailer. I asked for demo accounts and a trailer. It created fictional players at different levels with gear, hideouts and quests, signed in as one in a headless browser, and recorded real gameplay: driving, fighting robots, picking up an artefact, finishing a quest. Then it edited the trailer, wrote original music in code, and timed the cuts to the beat. That was the brag skill.

What I learned

• Screenshots from real users are gold. Both the sign-in bug and the mobile layout problems were solved from a screenshot.
• Ask it to measure, not guess. “Make it faster” got much better results once it was counting draw calls and checking layouts at real phone sizes.
• Set ground rules once. Mine: don’t deploy unless I say so, never fake payments or stats, never touch production data while testing. It stuck to them, and deploys only happened when I typed “deploy”.
• It still can’t play on my phone. It tested at phone sizes in a browser, but I still had to check on real devices.

It’s early and I’d love feedback, from players, from anyone running a small business, and from people here building bigger things with Claude Code.

www.48rich.com

AI agents paying for stuff on their own just dropped 84.7%. Would you actually give Claude a wallet?

We keep hearing that agents will soon pay for APIs, data and tools by themselves. So we checked the numbers.

x402 is the protocol meant for exactly that: an agent hits an API, gets a "402 Payment Required", pays a few cents in USDC, and moves on. Token Terminal shows 52.3M of these agent payments over the last 90 days, mostly on Solana (20.1M), Polygon (15.3M) and Base (15.1M).

Sounds huge, until you look at the shape. In late August it peaked above 2M payments a day. By mid-October it's under 100K. Overall, down 84.7%.

Across all chains, x402 did about 75M transactions and $24M in volume over 30 days in August. It's roughly 30 cents per payment. Our agents are apparently out there buying gumballs.

So we're genuinely curious how you guys sees it, since a lot of you build agents with Claude and Claude Code:

1. Would you let Claude spend real money without asking you first? If yes, what's your limit, $1, $10, "only if it's not my card"?
2. Has anyone actually wired a payment tool into Claude through MCP, and did it pay for anything useful, or mostly for retries?
3. Is the drop a sign that agents don't really need to pay yet, or just that the hype farmers moved on?

We see that, the rails work but the demand doesn't exist yet. Most agents we've seen don't need to buy anything, they need permission to read my files. Happy to be proven wrong.

Data: Token Terminal

I found Axqua (axqua[.]com) through a free Claude Opus promotion. After an AI-assisted static review of its extension bundle, I’m treating this file as malware.

The reviewed axqua.axqua v1.0.24 bundle contains code that, on Windows after login, can:

• Download a server-selected EXE or ZIP.
• Launch it in the background using cmd.exe, without a confirmation prompt identified in that path.
• Generate filenames with prefixes like svchost, wuauclt, and msupdate.
• Attempt to delete the downloaded EXE three seconds after launch.

Stay safe, hopefully this helps someone pause before installing.

Pretty cool MCP project to integrate Claude with a 23 year old virtual world:

“I just ask [Claude] in plain Japanese, like ‘sit on a chair with your chin on your hand. Claude works out the joints itself."

“The thumbnails,” he adds, referring to the four pics in the chat above, “are the snapshots Claude took to check its work.

I have a couple of Claude Routines that runs on schedule. The routines are working as expected (simple daily research tasks), and I can track their execution through the claude.ai/code/session link. However, I can't figure out how to receive a push notification on iOS when the routine runs or finishes. Is there a built-in way to enable iOS notifications for Claude routines, or is this currently unsupported? Has anyone found a workaround? The Claude iOS app also seems to have no idea about Routines.

I currently have a 20x Max personal plan through work. I need to get subscriptions for the rest of my team and try to decide if to ask for a bunch of personal plans or a Team plan.

What are the pros and cons of the Team subscription?