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BLOG 2026-05-03

Context windows stopped being the differentiator and nobody noticed

Two years ago, the context window race mattered. Now every model worth using has 200k+ tokens, and the actual bottleneck has moved somewhere else. Where it moved is more interesting than where it was.

NEWS 2026-05-02

GitHub Copilot adds model picker: Claude, Gemini, and GPT-4o now selectable

Copilot Business and Enterprise users can now choose between Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and GPT-4o within the same subscription. Individual plan access comes later this quarter.

Owner · 4 min #copilot #models
NEWS 2026-04-24

Aider continues its day-one model support pattern with Haiku 3.5

Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Haiku; Aider supported it the same day. The pattern is now consistent enough to be a feature, not an accident.

Owner · 4 min #aider #models
GUIDE 2026-04-22

Setting up Cline with Claude, GPT-4o, and OpenRouter as fallback providers

Cline lets you wire up multiple model providers and route between them. Here's the config that survived a month of real use, including the OpenRouter fallback that saved a deadline.

NEWS 2026-04-13

Anthropic ships Claude 3.7 Sonnet: incremental gains, real cost shift

The new Sonnet release lands with modest capability improvements and a meaningful pricing change for cached prompts. Here's what it means for your AI coding tool of choice.

Owner · 5 min #anthropic #claude
BLOG 2026-03-26

The 7B coding model renaissance: small models are good enough for more than you think

Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B, DeepSeek Coder V2 lite, and a few others are quietly making 'small local model' a real category. The use cases that fit are larger than the 'just for autocomplete' framing.

BLOG 2026-03-21

The context window arms race ended; nobody noticed

Two years ago, model context windows were the headline feature. Now they range from 128k to 2M and it doesn't matter for most workflows. Here's what actually does.

NEWS 2026-03-14

Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Haiku with 4x speed at lower cost

Claude 3.7 Haiku launches with significant speed improvements over 3.5 Haiku and pricing on par with the older model. The implications for autocomplete-style workflows are real.

Owner · 4 min #anthropic #claude
NEWS 2026-03-09

Google ships Gemini 2.0 Flash with notable coding improvements

Gemini 2.0 Flash lands with stronger coding benchmarks and a new tool-use API. The price stays low, but the capability gap with Anthropic and OpenAI narrows.

Owner · 4 min #google #gemini
NEWS 2026-02-17

OpenAI's o3-mini lands strong coding eval scores at low latency

o3-mini brings strong reasoning at faster speeds than o1. For agentic coding, the tradeoff between thinking time and quality has shifted.

Owner · 3 min #openai #models
NEWS 2025-12-08

Anthropic announces Claude 3.7 Opus with deep reasoning capabilities

Claude 3.7 Opus launches as the new flagship for hard tasks. Strong on coding benchmarks; pricier than Sonnet.

Owner · 2 min #anthropic #claude