9arm's skills repo is small, but it has one AI cost idea worth stealing

<p>If you've been using AI coding agents like Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex CLI, or Cursor, you've probably seen people talking about "skills" — packaged instructions that make

<p>The price page hasn't moved. Five dollars per million input. Twenty-five per million output. Identical to Opus 4.6.</p> <p>Run the same Claude Code call on both, though, and

<h2> The Numbers Don't Lie </h2> <p>The AI Engineering Report 2026 analyzed telemetry from 22,000 developers across more than 4,000 teams. The headline metrics look impressive:

<p>GPT-5.4 shipped on March 5. Seven weeks later, on April 23, 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.5 — and the pace alone tells you something about where this race is headed. This isn't

<h2> TL;DR </h2> <ul> <li>I reorganised my <a href="https://github.com/nasrulhazim/claude" rel="noopener noreferrer">Claude Toolkit</a> into three clear layers:

<p>The software world solved dependency management decades ago. npm, pip, cargo — these tools transformed how we build by making code reusable and discoverable. But in the AI

<h2> Introduction: The Moment Manual Coding Became "Optional" </h2> <p>In January 2026, Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, made a statement that reverberated across

<p>Every browser agent does the same expensive thing: dump the entire DOM into an LLM, ask "what should I click?", and repeat for every step. A 10-step workflow costs ~$4 in LLM