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Playwright MCP burns 114k tokens for one workflow. Here's why, and what to do ab

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10 May
THE RECEIPT TRAIL: WHAT THEY CHARGE VS WHAT YOU ACTUALLY PAY

<h2> Cursor and Windsurf are not AI coding tools. They're slot machines wrapped in a dark theme. Both exploits Claude Opus 4.7's broken tokenizer—which silently inflates your

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15 May
Optimizing your Claude Code usage (and spending less $$)

<p>This post from Anthropic is causing a lot of angst among its most ardent users. While it is disguised as a credit, it really is them tightening API token limits (aka charging

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25 Apr
OpenAI Just Released GPT-5.5. Here's What It Actually Does (and What It Costs You)

<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

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29 Jun
Why Playwright MCP Cost Us 5 More Tokens Than We Expected

<p>We built an open-source browser automation MCP because we wanted something simple:</p> <blockquote> <p>Observe a webpage once, let an LLM interact with it, then export a

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15 Jul
Playwright CLI vs Playwright MCP: Which Should You Use with Claude Code?

<p>If you searched "Claude Code + Playwright," the first thing you probably found was the Playwright MCP server — it's the original, most widely documented integration. But

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4 Oct
Qwen3.8 27B | 1 x R9700: 262K context, half a million tokens of reusable cache, ~180 tok/s. And yes, let's talk about the "3-bit" :)

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wxfdt9/qwen38_27b_1_x_r9700_262k_context_half_a_million/"> <img alt="Qwen3.8 27B | 1 x R9700: 262K context,

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17 Sept
Does your WebMCP actually save time and tokens? Run an ON/OFF experiment

<p>I added a WebMCP benchmark to <a href="https://github.com/jo32/DeepDeck" rel="noopener noreferrer">DeepDeck</a>, my MIT-licensed macOS desktop project built on DeepSeek

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1 Apr
Open-Weight AI Models Just Caught Up With GPT, Gemini and Claude. Here's What That Means for Where Intelligence Runs.

<p>In the first eight weeks of 2026, ten major open-weight LLM architectures were released.</p> <p>GLM-5 matched GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.6 on benchmarks. Step 3.5 Flash

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