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Thomas Wu · May 27 · 4 min
She called him an amateur for spending fewer Claude Code credits
The same dashboard reads two opposite directions — and the metric carries opposite meaning depending on who’s holding it. The fix isn’t better work. It’s a better metric.
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Thomas Wu · May 26 · 4 min
A 54-upvote Reddit comment quietly nailed why AI products will all end up billed by token
Buried in a 218-comment fight about ‘agentic abuse,’ thekidisalright dropped one line that reframes the entire debate — and probably the next 5 years of AI pricing.
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Thomas Wu · May 26 · 5 min
An IP lawyer built a Sonos iOS app in a weekend with Claude — and the indie-software economy quietly cracked open
When the constraint shifts from ‘who can code’ to ‘whose problem is annoying enough to solve,’ the supply curve of personal software changes shape.
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Thomas Wu · May 26 · 5 min
The ‘small local model + structured workflow’ loop is quietly becoming the production pattern nobody talks about
While vendors push frontier-model autonomy, a working pattern is emerging at the other end: tiny models, hand-crafted loops, surprising results.
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Thomas Wu · May 26 · 4 min
Claude invented a phone number — and the user’s reaction was the actually interesting part
When the AI hallucinates a specific contact detail and then admits it, the failure mode shifts from technical to social.
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