Claude Sonnet 4.6: Opus-level performance at a fifth of the price
Anthropic's second major launch in two weeks puts near-flagship capability at $3/$15 per million tokens. The mid-tier label is starting to feel like a misnomer.
· 9 min read
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Daniel Dewhurst
Lead AI Solutions Engineer with 10+ years in web development. Writing about AI, Laravel, TypeScript, and the evolving craft of building software.
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Claude Code vs Codex for Laravel teams: choosing your AI coding tool in 2026
A detailed comparison of Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex for Laravel/Vue/Inertia stacks — benchmarks, costs, ecosystem depth, and practical recommendations.
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Superpowers: the Claude Code plugin that enforces what you already know you should do
A look at the most popular Claude Code plugin — how it turns AI coding agents from capable-but-undisciplined into structured development partners through composable skills.
· 11 min read
A structured workflow for building features with AI coding agents
A seven-step process for turning requirements into shipped features using Claude Code — from scoping with parallel sub-agents to test-driven execution.
· 8 min read
claude-mem vs auto memory: do you need a memory plugin for Claude Code?
Claude Code now has built-in auto memory, but a 28k-star plugin called claude-mem offers a far more sophisticated approach. Here's how they compare and when each makes sense.
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MiniMax M2.5: the agent-native model that costs a dollar an hour
A 230B MoE model with 10B active parameters hits 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified at 1/20th the cost of Opus. Here's what's real and what's hype.
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