Latest Posts (20 found)
Martin Alderson 1 weeks ago

Which web frameworks are most token-efficient for AI agents?

I benchmarked 19 web frameworks on how efficiently an AI coding agent can build and extend the same app. Minimal frameworks cost up to 2.9x fewer tokens than full-featured ones.

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Martin Alderson 1 weeks ago

Anthropic's 500 vulns are the tip of the iceberg

Anthropic's red team found 500+ critical vulnerabilities with Claude. But they focused on maintained software. The scarier problem is the long tail that nobody will ever patch.

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Martin Alderson 2 weeks ago

Attack of the SaaS clones

I cloned Linear's UI and core functionality using Claude Code in about 20 prompts. Here's what that means for SaaS companies.

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Martin Alderson 3 weeks ago

Self-improving CLAUDE.md files

A simple trick to keep your CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files updated using the agent's own chat logs - turning a tedious chore into a 30 second job.

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Martin Alderson 3 weeks ago

How to generate good looking reports with Claude Code, Cowork or Codex

A step-by-step guide to extracting your brand design system and generating on-brand PDF reports and slide decks using coding agents.

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Martin Alderson 1 months ago

Turns out I was wrong about TDD

I used to be a TDD sceptic - too much time writing tests for features that might get deleted. Then coding agents completely changed the economics of software testing.

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Martin Alderson 1 months ago

Why sandboxing coding agents is harder than you think

Permission systems, Docker sandboxing, and log file secrets - why current approaches to securing coding agents fall short and what we might need instead.

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Martin Alderson 1 months ago

I ported Photoshop 1.0 to C# in 30 minutes

Using Claude Code to port 120k lines of Pascal and 68k assembly to modern C# - and what this means for cross-platform development

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Martin Alderson 2 months ago

Why I'm building my own CLIs for agents

MCP tools eat thousands of tokens. A simple CLI with instructions in your CLAUDE.md file uses 71 tokens and works brilliantly.

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Martin Alderson 2 months ago

Travel agents took 10 years to collapse. Developers are 3 years in.

Travel agents are the classic example of an industry killed by the internet. Software engineering is facing the same disruption, but the timeline is compressed.

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Martin Alderson 2 months ago

Are we dismissing AI spend before the 6x lands?

Critics are judging models trained on last-gen hardware. There's a 6x wave of compute already allocated - and it's just starting to produce results.

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Martin Alderson 2 months ago

Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%?

Agentic coding tools are dramatically reducing software development costs. Here's why 2026 is going to catch a lot of people off guard.

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Martin Alderson 3 months ago

Are we in a GPT-4-style leap that evals can't see?

Gemini 3 Pro's design capabilities and Opus 4.5's reduced babysitting needs represent a subtle but significant leap that traditional benchmarks completely miss.

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Martin Alderson 3 months ago

I Finally Found a Use for IPv6

Using IPv6 with Cloudflare to run multiple services on a single server without a reverse proxy

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Martin Alderson 3 months ago

How I use Claude Code to manage sysadmin tasks

A practical approach to managing production infrastructure using git-tracked markdown files and Claude Code for small teams

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Martin Alderson 4 months ago

Could Excel agents unlock $1T in economic value?

Software engineers underestimate the scale of Excel usage. With agents now able to work directly in spreadsheets, we're looking at transforming how billions of dollars in business processes are managed.

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Martin Alderson 4 months ago

Are we really repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?

Looking at actual token demand growth, infrastructure utilization, and capacity constraints - the economics don't match the 2000s playbook like people assume

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Martin Alderson 4 months ago

A non-technical CFO is shipping better code than the agencies he hired

A non-technical CFO built a production operations dashboard with Claude Code that had failed with low-code tools and agencies. This shift in who can build software is going to change everything.

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