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Products I paid for and actually ran, with the price, the limits and the failures
Products I paid for and actually ran, with the price, the limits and the failures
5 articles
I Self-Hosted MiniMax H3 on an L40S: What Is Actually Open
MiniMax H3 runs on a 48 GB L40S with INT8 weights, but H3-Base is only the middle stage. Here is what worked, what failed, what it cost, and when self-hosting wins.
Prompt Caching (Part 4): AWS Documents 4,096 — I Measured 1,024
AWS gives Claude Sonnet 4.5 a 4,096-token minimum cacheable prefix. Bisecting on Bedrock put the real threshold at 1,024. Three control models matched their docs; only this row was off.
Seedance 2.5 Hands-On: 725 Credits Buy 27 Seconds, and the CLI Costs Extra
A ¥69/month membership buys 725 credits — enough for 27 seconds of finished video, about ¥2.5 per second. The Dreamina CLI needs the ¥998/month premium tier, which is where my agent-driven pipeline stopped. Three blockers, one cost calculation done on what I actually paid, and four things wrong with the subtitles.
Claude Code vs Gemini CLI vs Aider: Which Terminal Coding Agent Should You Use in 2026?
A working comparison of the three major terminal coding agents as of mid-2026: Claude Code's autonomous agent loop, Gemini CLI's open-source free tier (and its Antigravity turbulence), and Aider's git-native pair programming. Comparison matrix, honest strengths and weaknesses, and a decision framework.
Claude Code vs Cursor vs Amazon Q: One Year Honest Review
After a year of daily AI-assisted coding — what actually works, what doesn't, and which tool wins for what, with the trade-offs stated.