July rewrote the leaderboard. Fable 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, Grok 4.5, Muse Spark 1.1, Kimi K2.7-Code, Cognition SWE-1.7, GLM 5.2, and MiniMax M3. What holds up for coding, agents, and cost.
180K+ GitHub stars, security researchers panicking, $10–25/day in API costs. I spent two weeks with OpenClaw looking for a killer use case. The product isn't ready — the idea might be anyway.
Upload a PDF resume, get a live web portfolio. I built clickfolio.me entirely on Cloudflare's edge stack, D1 for data, R2 for files, Queues for async processing, Durable Objects for real-time WebSockets, and Gemini for AI parsing. Here's every technical decision, including the ones I regret.
Everyone's talking about vibe coding like it's the future. After building a prototype in hours and then drowning in an unmaintainable mess, here's what the hype gets wrong.
I've spent $50+/month on AI coding tools for a year. Here's what actually works, what's overhyped, and when to use each tool (including free local LLMs).
How I run powerful AI models locally on my M4 Pro MacBook with LM Studio. Privacy, speed, and vision models that can see images - all offline.