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The long version
of the short video.

Each guide is the companion to something I posted — the numbers, the commands, and the sources, with room to show the work. Every figure is checked against a primary source and linked back to it.

3 published

Read it,
then go run it.

Short enough to finish, specific enough to act on the same day. No introductions, no throat-clearing.

OPUS57 min read

Opus 5 vs Fable 5: the model picker is not your cost dial

Claude Fable 5 costs exactly twice what Claude Opus 5 costs, and that is the least useful number on the page. Here are both price tables, the one setting that actually moves your bill, and the prompt instruction you should delete today.

  • claude
  • llm-cost
  • prompting
  • agents
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KIMI8 min read

Kimi K3: unmetered is not free — the actual cost breakdown

Kimi K3 is 2.8 trillion parameters and the weights are public. That does not make it free, it makes it unmetered — and the two words have very different invoices. Here is what self-hosting it actually needs, and the split that beats picking a side.

  • open-weights
  • self-hosting
  • llm-cost
  • inference
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SITE8 min read

The Claude web-design setup: skills, taste, and a browser it can actually see

The four-part setup that gets Claude building sites that don't look generated: design skills for the rules, a taste skill for the references, Figma MCP for the source of truth, and Playwright so it can look at what it built. With the exact commands and file paths.

  • claude-code
  • skills
  • mcp
  • web-design
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