Meta's Claude Code clone is INSANELY cheap
Theo puts Meta's Claude Code clone, Muse Code powered by Muse Spark 1.2, through benchmarks, a codebase audit, a game rewrite, and a live integration test to see if the price is the whole story.
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Theo puts Meta's Claude Code clone, Muse Code powered by Muse Spark 1.2, through benchmarks, a codebase audit, a game rewrite, and a live integration test to see if the price is the whole story.
August 7thTheo spends a full day inside Claude Opus 5, pits it against Fable 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol on benchmarks and real coding tasks, and argues the cheaper, weirder model just won his default slot.
July 25thTheo reacts line-by-line to Boris Cherny's post arguing that automation — CLAUDE.md rules, lint checks, CI — matters more than ever in the agent era, not less.
July 21stTheo spends a day stress-testing Moonshot's 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight release — and comes away convinced it's frontier-class, cheap enough to matter, and genuinely dangerous once the weights go public on July 27.
July 17thTheo runs OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol through Claude Code instead of Codex and gets visibly better designs and cheaper orchestration — then reads Codex's system prompt on camera to find out why.
July 16thA same-day breakdown of why GPT-5.6 Codex drains rate limits so much faster than 5.5 — and the five habits that actually fix it.
July 13thTheo spends 36 minutes putting real numbers behind the GPT-5.6 hype — Sol, Terra, and Luna, benchmarked against Claude Fable, one blog chart at a time.
July 12thOpenAI folded its beloved Codex app into a rebranded ChatGPT overnight -- Theo argues they just killed the best brand in AI coding.
July 11thSix weeks, sixty-seven projects, and somewhere between $180,000 and $240,000 in inference spend on early access to a frontier coding model — before the official review even starts.
July 10thA day spent hammering Grok 4.5 inside Cursor turns a skeptical hook into a genuine benchmark scare for the rest of the frontier field.
July 9thHow Theo turned a returned, unmetered Claude release into a five-and-a-half-hour unattended agent run that cleared a month of stalled pull requests for about $150.
July 6thA 23-minute rebuttal of three viral claims about Anthropic's returning Fable model — that it's nerfed, that its subscription pricing is a bait-and-switch, and that it's too expensive to run.
July 4thA Mac loyalist explains why agentic coding broke macOS for him -- and how a fleet of $400 Linux mini-PCs fixed it.
July 3rdA 28-minute benchmark teardown of Claude Sonnet 5, plus the government letter that brought Fable back from the dead.
July 1stOpenAI's next-generation model family exists, benchmarks impressively, and is locked behind a US government approval gate — a 30-minute breakdown of what that means.
June 27thA 20-minute investigation into the US government export control that pulled Anthropic's two best AI models offline — and what that precedent means for every developer who builds on frontier AI.
June 24thA 44-minute wishlist from a burned-out builder who wants solo devs to tackle the infrastructure problems that have gone unsolved for a decade.
June 22ndA 25-minute case for letting agents run their own loops — and how one 2:29 AM prompt produced four merged PRs by morning.
June 18thA reluctant 28-minute tour of the Claude Code features every competing harness should steal.
June 17thTheo breaks down how Anthropic silently modified prompts, rewrote its system card, and built invisible safeguards into its most capable model - then got caught.
June 15thA live 14-minute breakdown of the US government export control directive that forced Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline for all non-US citizens — including Anthropic's own employees.
June 13thA 30-minute field report on burning $5,400 of subsidized AI inference in ten days — and what actually came out of it.
June 12thA 33-minute first-take from a developer who spent $3,000 on inference in 24 hours — benchmarks, real demos, session math, and the hidden safety intervention that silently degrades the model without telling you.
June 11thA 23-minute supply-chain autopsy explaining why Elon's reckless GPU overbuy is now the most valuable compute position in the world.
June 9th