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8 May 2026·4 min read·AI

Claude Code's Agent Loop Costs 17x Less When You Swap the Brain

A new tool called deepclaude redirects Claude Code's API calls to DeepSeek V4 Pro — same autonomous agent loop, same file editing and bash execution, $0.87/M output tokens instead of $15/M.

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7 May 2026·6 min read·AI

Why Your AI Agent Gets Dumber Over Time

Attention degradation is why long agent sessions produce worse results — and prefix caching is why they also get expensive. Here's the engineering response to both.

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6 May 2026·5 min read·AI

Computer Use Costs 45x More — Build the API Instead

A benchmark from Reflex shows the same admin panel task costs 551k tokens with computer use and 12k tokens with a structured API. Here's how to think about the tradeoff when building AI features.

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